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Staff Engineer, Full Stack (San Francisco)

Short Story· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$250kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role at Short Story, a YC-backed lightweight fashion retailer for petite women, responsible for shaping technology, product experience, and engineering culture across customer-facing and internal platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale full-stack applications with Next.js, React Query, TailwindCSS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
  • Drive technical direction: influence architecture, make trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that balance speed and scalability.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and operations to deliver solutions end-to-end, from UI to backend services.
  • Translate Figma designs into seamless, interactive experiences while ensuring backend integrations are robust and performant.
  • Use data to drive impact: A/B testing, instrumentation, and iteration to improve user experience and business outcomes.
  • Multiply team effectiveness: mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar.
  • Ensure quality and reliability: drive testing and automation across the stack (Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, integration tests).
  • Own deployment and operations: manage apps on Netlify, AWS, or equivalent, and build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
  • Champion engineering culture: set standards around performance, security, accessibility, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

  • You are passionate about improving the user experience and have built and launched high-quality user-facing products.
  • Fluent in TypeScript and CSS, with extensive experience building scalable applications using Next.js and React.js.
  • Hands-on experience with React-Query, Tailwind CSS, and front-end tooling like Webpack and Yarn.
  • Experience with Git and GitHub in collaborative development environments.
  • Experience translating designs from Figma into elegant, accessible interfaces across multiple devices and browsers.
  • Ability to establish testing practices and methodologies for the team.
  • Understanding of front-end performance optimization and building for scalability.
  • Strong documentation, communication, and team enablement.
  • Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you can own solutions end-to-end.
  • Enjoys solving complex problems from end to end.

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReact.jsNext.jsTailwind CSSReact QueryNode.jsPostgreSQLTesting

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental care
  • 401k with company match (US)
  • Generous paid time off
  • Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator backed startup with a dedicated founding team
  • Company-wide and team events
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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