Senior Backend Engineer (Analytics/ AI Personalization)

Tapcart is the leading mobile app platform for the world’s fastest-growing Shopify brands. We help marketers and eCommerce teams strengthen their brands and create differentiated customer experiences through a direct mobile channel.

Our platform powers mobile shopping for over 50 million consumers and processes more than $8 billion in revenue annually. Brands like Béis, Grove Collaborative, and Ruggable trust Tapcart to turn mobile traffic into high-retention, high-growth relationships — with mobile apps launched in hours, not months.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Tapcart, you'll join the team that is spearheading our company's personalization efforts and owning our existing analytics and segmentation products. You will design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers these initiatives. This role requires an expert distributed systems backend engineer with a strong emphasis on different database and data processing architectures.

You’ll have end-to-end ownership, from ideation to deployment, with a direct impact on our customers. We value rapid iteration, empowering and expecting engineers to ship code daily in a fast-paced, data-driven, and agile environment. You’ll drive innovation while ensuring accountability and transparency, with regular progress updates keeping the team aligned.

The ideal candidate is passionate about code quality and following best practices while always searching for new, better ways to get things done. Presented with a problem space, this person can autonomously translate business and functional requirements into live production-ready solutions and drive projects to completion. They are obsessed with customer value, understanding that completion means not just finishing code but personally validating solutions and delivering tangible value to customers. This person will help shape the next generation of products at Tapcart - building marketing tools and personalized in app experiences using generative AI.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Design and Build Data Infrastructure: Architect, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems used by our analytics, segmentation, and personalization products.

• Power AI/ML Systems: Build, optimize, and maintain critical data infrastructure systems that power personalization products. Partner with our product and customer teams to translate merchant requirements into robust, production-ready systems.

• Scale Microservices: Build and deploy new microservices in a cloud environment, ensuring our data platform can scale while remaining reliable and efficient.

• Optimize and Secure: Optimize our cloud infrastructure for cost and performance while protecting customer and shopper data with enterprise-grade security best practices and global regulatory compliance.

• Drive Architectural Decisions: Architect and review the design for cutting-edge services in close collaboration with our cloud technology partners, defining API schemas and managing change over time.

WHAT SKILLS YOU’LL NEED

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong expertise in distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure.

• Expertise with technologies such as Node.js, Typescript, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Proven experience with cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CICD tools.

• Strong experience working with different database architectures (Mongo, Postgres, BigQuery, Bigtable)

• Experience with data processing frameworks and tools like Apache Beam and dbt

• Experience in system architecture design, application development, and networking configuration in a cloud environment.

• Excellent software engineering fundamentals and organizational skills.

BONUS IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience with Gen AI frameworks

• Experience with front-end technologies such as React, React Native, or Next.js and/or mobile development.

SALARY RANGE: $175,000- $200,000

This position is not eligible for visa transfer or sponsorship.

This position is remote eligible in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MA, ME, MI, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA

TAPCART PERKS AND BENEFITS:

• 💰 Financial Wellness

  • 401(k) plan and equity grants for all full-time employees — because we grow together

  • Competitive compensation with room to grow

• 🏥 Health & Wellbeing

  • Affordable, high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • Mental health support via Headspace and Talkspace, ensuring your whole self is supported

• 🛋 Flexibility & Time Off

  • Flexible PTO policy — take the time you need to rest and recharge

  • 11 paid company holidays

  • Work remotely

• 🛒 Work-Life Balance with a Tapcart Twist

  • One-time home office setup stipend to get you started

  • Recurring merchant shopping stipend so you can experience the magic of Tapcart like our customers do

WHY JOIN TAPCART?

We’re a Santa Monica-based tech company with the energy of a startup and the momentum of a market leader 🏖. At Tapcart, we believe building great products starts with building an environment where passionate people can thrive.

Since our $50M Series B in 2021, we’ve continued scaling our platform and our community of merchants. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by leading eCommerce brands, we’re on a mission to redefine mobile shopping — and we’re just getting started.

• Check out what our customers are saying.

Learn more about who we are and what we offer on ourCareers page.

Recruitment Disclaimer:
Please be aware that Tapcart, Inc. (“Tapcart”) and our official professional recruiting agencies and platforms do not:

• Send job offers from free services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Whatsapp, etc.

• Request money, fees, or payment of any kind from prospective candidates to apply to Tapcart, for employment, or for the recruitment process (e.g. for home office supplies, or training, etc.).

• Request or require personal documents like bank account details, tax forms, or credit card information as part of the recruitment process prior to the candidate signing an engagement letter or an employment contract with Tapcart.

You may see all job vacancies on our official Tapcart channels:

• Official Tapcart website, Careers page: https://www.tapcart.com/careers

• Official LinkedIn Jobs page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tapcart/jobs/