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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (San Francisco)

Short Story· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$200kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Full Stack Engineer role at Short Story, a YC-backed ecommerce retailer focused on petite women, building internal and customer-facing services for processing orders and establishing backend design patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Build internal and customer-facing services for processing customer orders
  • Establish key design patterns/guidelines for all backend workloads
  • Develop across full stack (backend and frontend) as part of an early senior team
  • Contribute to data-driven insights and platform improvements to optimize operations

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • 2+ years of Python experience
  • Familiar with infrastructure, CI/CD practices
  • Familiar with API and backend testing patterns
  • Strong communication and documentation skills

Skills

Required:PythonAPI design and testingCI/CDFrontend/backend full-stack developmentCommunication and documentation

Benefits

  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental care
  • 401k with company match (US)
  • In-person in Potrero Hill, San Francisco
  • Employee discount on merchandise
  • Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator backed startup with experienced founding team
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Short Story

Modern ecommerce for petite women

Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.

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