Senior Backend Engineer

Tecovas was founded with the simple goal of making the world's best western boots, apparel and leather goods - and selling them at a fair price. We are a brand revolutionizing a category and welcoming first‑time boot buyers and western enthusiasts alike.

Tecovas is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to scale Tecovas business operations to the next level, reporting directly to the Manager of Backend Engineering. The Sr Backend Engineer is an experienced engineer who will be responsible for building, deploying, testing, and operating the systems that power Tecovas’ operational infrastructure. In this role, you will implement and improve processes that ensure scalability, security, and performance, while streamlining critical workflows across the business.

You’ll work closely with teams across Tecovas to ensure data moves accurately and efficiently between systems, reducing manual effort and enabling the organization to operate faster and smarter. As a key cross‑functional partner, you’ll have broad exposure to Tecovas’ teams and platforms and play a meaningful role in driving company‑wide impact.

This role is required to be based in Austin, TX. Candidates must either be currently located in or willing to relocate to Austin, TX.

• Design, build, test, deliver, and support highly scalable solutions across the entire solution stack
• Providing code reviews, engage in pair programming exercise, and providing feedback on solution design
• Provide suggestions and enhancements to future and current code bases, test pipelines, and deployment pipelines based on your deep experience and subject matter expertise
• Work directly with business partners and stakeholders to provide guidance and provide scalable solutions to complex issues

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 2 years in e‑commerce, preferably in a D2C environment either as a client or an e‑commerce congruent software or software solution provider
• Previous experience as a Sr level engineer
• Significant production level experience with Python codebases and general working knowledge of various Python web frameworks and toolkits like Django, Flask, Pydantic, FastAPI, etc.
• Experience building solutions around integrations with e‑commerce and ERP systems with preferred experience in integrating with Shopify and Netsuite
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑scale master data management pipelines
• Strong subject matter expertise building, designing, and integrating with REST and Graph
  
  QL APIs with ample experience in integrating with 3rd party APIs in general
• GCP product subject matter expertise, specifically environment set up and configuration with Cloud functions, Cloud Containers, GKE, and Datastore (comparable ISP experience is ok)
• Deep understanding of containers and managing production level container deployments
• Experience with working in production level Kubernetes deployments
• Experience building production‑grade CI/CD, build, and test pipelines using tools like GH workflow, Circle CI, Gitlab pipelines, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience operating in any of the various work management tool suites like Atlassian, Gitlab, GH Projects, Asana, Monday, etc.
• Strong cross‑functional communication skills

• You are an experienced software engineer/architect with several years of experience in building solutions in the e‑commerce, retail, and/or D2C space as backend engineer
• You are a self‑managed professional that yearns for vision casting and collaboration vs instruction from leadership
• You thrive working with small, autonomous teams that focus on value add vs process overhead
• You are passionate about code quality through test‑driven development
• You are passionate about event‑driven architectures, modular enterprise solution architecture, and domain‑driven design
• You enjoy working as cross‑functional resource and collaborating directly with business partners and stakeholders
• We offer insurance plans that pay 79‑90% of your health premium coverage and 100% of your dental & vision insurance coverage for your family/dependents
• 401(k) match
• Flexible PTO policy
• Corporate…