Senior Backend Engineer

About Lovevery

Lovevery is a fast-growing digitally native brand co-founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and based in Boise, Idaho. Our customers are caretakers, and our mission is to help them feel confident they are giving their children meaningful development experiences in the critical early years of life. Taking a science-based approach, Lovevery products have won awards from Red Dot, Parents’ Choice, and NAPPA. TIME Magazine named The Play Kits subscription offering as one of the Best Inventions of 2018 along with AdAge awarding Lovevery with DTC Brand of the Year for 2023. 

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team that owns the end-to-end shopping experience focused on Subscriptions. You’ll work on every aspect of our customer journey, from product discovery to becoming a subscriber to engaging with our rich, stage-based parent education platform. You will own the e-commerce platform spanning account and subscription management, checkout, fulfillment, our content CMS, and more. You will do it all with a platform focus in mind - scaling our global audience to millions of customers and continuously looking for opportunities to enhance our technology, increase velocity, and maintain a high-quality bar. You will have genuine influence over technical direction, tooling choices, and the standards we build on.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, develop, and optimize the backend services and APIs that drive our global e-commerce and digital parent experiences.
• Create scalable data models and systems designed to evolve in tandem with our product roadmap and an expanding global audience.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend teams to ship impactful features that support every stage of the customer journey.
• Own the security, reliability, and performance of our backend stack, ensuring a seamless experience for millions of parents.
• Guide technical direction by evaluating new vendors and platforms, weighing the benefits of internal builds versus third-party integrations.
• Champion engineering excellence by refining technical standards, development workflows, and team-wide best practices.
• Leverage AI coding tooling and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar and sound engineering judgment.
• Iterate on our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure to ensure consistent, high-velocity software delivery.
• Foster a collaborative culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and a shared commitment to our mission.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, or equivalent server-side programming languages, and some professional experience with JavaScript, Swift, Java/Kotlin, or other client-side programming languages (with a personal methodology to learn new languages)
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and SQL
• Hands-on experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with caching, queuing, and search tools such as Redis, RabbitMQ, or Elasticsearch
• Comfort with Docker, microservices, and containerized architectures
• Experience writing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written and verbal communication; strong collaborator and self-starter
• Background in consumer subscription or e-commerce platforms (Shopify preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling for analytics or BI
• Strong understanding of the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted software development, including when to rely on generated solutions and when deeper engineering analysis is required.
• JavaScript familiarity for occasional full-stack collaboration
• Passion for early childhood development and empathy for parents as product users

The Benefits/Perks You'll Enjoy

• Competitive salary, benefits and stock option package
• 3 weeks PTO in year 1 +14 paid holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Any equipment you need to get the job done
• Free/discounted Lovevery products

Salary Range Information 

Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $150,000 to $180,000. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

Lovevery is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all forms. All employment decisions at Lovevery are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.