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.

What you’ll do:

• 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

Experience we’re looking for:

• 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 GraphQL APIs with ample experience in integrating with 3rd party API’s 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.


• General experience working in or managing javascript and/or typescript codebases


• Experience operating in any of the various work management tool suites like Atlassian, Gitlab, GH Projects, Asana, Monday, etc.


• Strong cross functional communication skills

What you bring to the table:

• 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

Full Time Benefits & Perks:

• 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


• Paid Parental Leave


• Flexible PTO policy


• Corporate wellness program


• Competitive salary: $120,000-150,000/annually (commensurate with experience)


• Eligibility to participate in Corporate Bonus Program


• Generous employee discounts!

About Us:

Based in Austin, TX, Tecovas brings the spirit of the West to the modern consumer. Handcrafting the best Western footwear, workwear, apparel, and accessories, Tecovas has grown rapidly since its founding as the first digitally native Western brand in 2015, serving customers through Tecovas Stores from coast to coast, and select wholesale partners. We’re certainly growing- and hiring passionate, humble, positive, and talented people determined to help us continue to grow!

Important note: We strive to hire values-aligned people because we believe it takes each and all of us to be successful, and lead with grit, speed and a clear vision of where we’re headed. In a remote setting, interviewing at Tecovas may include phone interviews, virtual “on-site” interviews, and on-the-job mock cases. We are committed to run a thorough process for candidates with whom we identify a potential match, and we will do our best to follow-up with each and every applicant! If you’re on the fence, just give it a try!

Hiring process and disclaimer: Should you receive an offer from us after going through the interview process, a background check will be conducted prior to onboarding. The results of a background check are evaluated as part of the hiring process, but this does not mean that you will not be considered for the job based upon the results. We are an equal opportunity employer and we encourage everyone to apply!