Full-Stack Software Engineer (Remote, US West Timezone Overlap)
About the role
Tailor is building Headless ERP for retail operations. This role blends core product development with customer-facing implementations, shipping features across the stack and shaping engineering standards as the company scales.
Responsibilities
- Scope ambiguous customer asks, prototype quickly, and iterate into stable customer deployments using Tailor’s platform.
- Engage with customers with Forward Deployed Product Manager to understand needs and iterate into stable deployments.
- Productize repeatable solutions, turning bespoke implementations into scalable modules for accounting, e-commerce, logistics, and other workflows.
- Build and ship production-grade features across the stack—from front-end UIs to backend APIs, integrations, and data models.
- Work with the founding team to shape engineering standards, developer experience, and platform architecture.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack web applications in production environments.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL and React is a plus.
- Strong foundation in data modeling, API design, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability in production systems.
- Comfortable integrating with third-party APIs and external platforms across accounting, commerce, or logistics domains.
- Pragmatic engineer with a bias toward outcomes and shipping real solutions over perfect engineering.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to decompose fuzzy asks, prioritize independently, and ship without a complete spec.
- Enjoys working with customers and turning complex operational pain points into maintainable software.
Skills
Benefits
- PTO & paid holidays
- Work-from-home setup stipend
- Parental leave and family support
About Tailor
Headless ERP for retail operations
Tailor is the headless ERP that gives fast-growing retail brands a composable, API-first platform to run operations with speed, flexibility, and control. 🧱 Legacy ERP is too rigid: Systems like NetSuite and SAP take months (or years) to implement and break with every change. Tailor is modular, headless, and easy to adapt. 🧩 Point solutions don’t scale: Tools like inventory or order management software solve one problem, but can’t talk to each other or keep up with growth. 📊 Spreadsheets are everywhere: From demand planning to purchase orders, even $100M+ brands still rely on Excel. Tailor replaces duct-taped workflows with ops modules you can tweak, combine, or scale ⚡️ Complex workflows need custom logic: Whether it's multi-location inventory, DTC + B2B orders, or light manufacturing (like kitting or lot tracking), Tailor supports flexible automations out of the box. 👟 Operators can move faster: Launch backend modules in minutes, not months. Tailor's low-code tools let teams build, automate, and adapt without waiting on engineering or implementation agencies. Built for composable retail: - Headless backend with GraphQL APIs - 50+ integrations (Shopify, QuickBooks, 3PLs, etc.) - Custom automations via Pipelines, Functions, and Event Triggers - State machines for approvals and multi-step workflows - AI features like OCR and vector search built in Tailor is already powering operations at fast-growing omnichannel brands and modern manufacturers. We’re proud to be the first Japan-based company to join Y Combinator. Learn more at [tailor.tech](https://www.tailor.tech)
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