Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Senior Full Stack Engineer

CSC Generation Enterprise (CSC) is an AI-enabled multi-brand platform that acquires and transforms retailers into profitable, digital-first, consumer-centric businesses. CSC's retail platform is purpose built around its core M&A strategy and drives alpha by encoding revenue growth, unit margin management, and other expert-level retail practices into automation and AI. CSC owns and operates more than 10 retail, eCommerce, and wholesale brands, including Sur La Table, Backcountry, and One Kings Lane.

As a Senior Backend Engineer (Python), you will work on a team to build best-in-class microservices, business-facing user dashboards, and customer-facing experiences. This is 80% Backend/ Python and 20% fronted/React JS role. Our senior full-stack engineers own the technical facets of our various services within our application cloud. We are building a constellation of API-and-SDK first, composable services, working to make our systems programmable and discoverable for other teams within the business. You should love quality abstractions, good systems design, and patterns as much as we do.

This role is challenging – above and beyond the day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have a big role within a fast-paced team.

This position will report into the Director of Supply Chain Management , Product and Engineering

What you get to do every day:

• Work with product teams to architect and implement a service in our retail cloud
• Design and implement microservices in Python to be deployed in AWS as ECS
• Design and implement in TypeScript / JavaScript, React, NodeJS
• Building quality, functional code that you and your team can be proud of
• Publish APIs, SDKs, and CLIs for your systems that other developers can use
• Write responsive and functional components in React for the front-end
• Learn and keep up with current best practices for elegant code and projects

What you bring to the role:

• Can work on both frontend and backend components of an application (if you're stronger on the frontend or backend, we'd still like to hear from you)
• Can be the technical owner of an internally facing consumer microservice product
• Has around 5+ years of experience, in areas of our tech stack: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, React, AWS (ie: Lambda, CloudFront, CodePipeline, this one is trainable)
• Strong sense of ownership for the entire software lifecycle, not only to the next handoff
• Believe in finding the best solution, not just one that works

What’s in it for you? Canada

• Competitive compensation
• Medical/Dental/Vision benefits through Greenshield- Health Benefits 100% employer paid!
• Company Provided Life Insurance equal to one year salary
• RRSP matching
• 3 weeks’ vacation + 5 Paid Sick Days
• Birthday off with pay!
• Paid holidays

What’s in it for you? US

• PTO for salaried employees
• Medical/Dental/Vision and a variety of supplemental policies available
• Company 401K match
• Company Health Spending Account (HSA) match
• Company provides group life insurance at no cost
• COBRA reimbursement for salaried employees until health insurance eligible
• Paid Holidays
• Birthday off with pay!
• Pet Insurance
• Generous employee discounts

What our interview process looks like:

• Depending on the position, our application and interview process may vary, but here are some of the ways we get to know you better:
• 📞 Step 1: Match most of the requirements and qualifications for the position? We want to chat. A recruiter will reach out to you via email to schedule some time to learn more about our company and get to know you better. Remember, you’re also interviewing us!
• 📝 Step 2: Our assessments (if applicable to the role) measure your analytical and business acumen. We use them to better understand your expertise. Each person interviewing for the same role receives the same assessment, which helps us evaluate candidates equally and consistently.
•  👩🏽‍💻Step 3: Virtual or in-person interviews depending on your location. Our hiring team will learn more about your prior experience and challenges you’ve faced. Be prepared with detailed examples. Concise and well-organized answers are ideal.
•  ✍🏽 Step 4: Offer! This is where things get really exciting. We gather all data from your interviews and conduct a final review. If qualified for the position, your recruiter will connect with you via phone to present a verbal offer we know you’ll be excited about.

CSC Generation Holdings family of brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws.

CSC Generation Holdings family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact hrbenefits@cscshared.com.