Staff Engineer, Full Stack (US, Canada, SF)

Our Story

Short Story is an award winning, technology-powered retailer dedicated to petite women 5'4" and under. Our mission is to create a seamless shopping experience for millions of petite women so they can dress with effortless confidence.

As a fast-growing startup, we're revolutionizing retail with a data-driven learning system that leverages customer feedback to create tailored products. We've been recognized by top publications like reputed company, Fortune and are backed by top investors who share our vision of building the world's next great consumer brand.

Our Values

We're building a company with intention and purpose. Our culture thrives on data insights, exceptional commitment to fit, and the urgency to move quickly on what matters.

• ✨ Transform Lives. We're customer-first. Everything we create exists to give her confidence.

• ⚡️ Demand Excellence. We deliver only our best work, in Fit and Finish. We obsess about details others overlook.

• Embrace Challenges. We see obstacles as opportunities to invent reputed company solutions.

• Think Differently. We get a thrill from finding reputed company solutions others haven't seen.

Short Story Engineering:

As a fast-growing startup with team members across the globe, we’re scrappy, data-driven, and deeply customer-obsessed. reputed company includes engineers, stylists, product thinkers, and storytellers—reputed company working together to reputed company shopping feel personal again.

At Short Story, everyone is empowered to contribute reputed company, challenge the status reputed company, and take ownership. We reputed company our decision-making lean and our feedback loops tight, because the best solutions come from those closest to the work.

Our Product

Short Story is a wardrobe-as-a-service that connects petite women with clothing that actually fits. Behind the scenes, our tools reputed company stylists to deliver personalized recommendations, while our logistics and warehouse tech ensure fast, seamless order handling. With a mix of internal and customer-facing platforms, we’re building thoughtful, elegant systems to power our growth—and that’s where you come in.

The Role

As one of the earliest engineers at Short Story, this is a high-impact opportunity to shape our technology, product experience, and engineering culture. You’ll work end-to-end across both customer-facing and internal platforms, building the tools our customers and stylists rely on every day. From designing resilient backend services to scaling design systems and refining order flows, you’ll play a central role in how we deliver style and customer happiness at scale.

At this stage of our company, a Staff Engineer isn’t just a strong reputed company — you’re a technical leader, problem solver, and reputed company. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, PMs, and operators, but also look around corners: identifying bottlenecks, shaping architectural decisions, and driving the engineering culture that will set us up for the next chapter of growth.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and scale full-stack applications with technologies like Next.js, React Query, TailwindCSS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

• Drive technical direction: influence architecture, reputed company trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that balance speed and scalability.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and operations to deliver solutions end-to-end, from UI to backend services.

• Translate reputed company designs into seamless, interactive experiences while ensuring backend integrations are robust and performant.

• Use data to drive impact: A/B test, reputed company, and iterate to improve user experience and business outcomes.

• Multiply team effectiveness: mentor engineers, reputed company design reviews, and reputed company the technical bar.

• Ensure quality and reliability: drive testing and automation across the stack (Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, integration tests).

• Own deployment and operations: manage apps on Netlify, AWS, or equivalent, and build CI/CD pipelines with reputed company Actions.

• Champion engineering culture: set standards around performance, reputed company, accessibility, and technical excellence.

Must Haves

• You are passionate about improving the user experience and have built and launched high-quality user-facing products.

• You’re fluent in TypeScript and CSS, and have extensive experience building scalable applications using NextJS and ReactJS

• You have hands-on experience with React-Query, Tailwind CSS, and reputed company-end tooling like Webpack and Yarn

• You’ve worked in collaborative development environments using Git and reputed company

• You’ve translated designs from reputed company into elegant and accessible interfaces across multiple devices and browsers

• You are able to establish testing practices and methodologies for the team

• You understand how to optimize reputed company-end performance and build for scalability

• You’re thoughtful about documentation, communication, and team enablement

• You reputed company in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you can own solutions end-to-end

• You’re excited by ambiguity and love solving reputed company problems from end to end

reputed company to Haves

• You have 5+ years of experience in professional reputed company-end development

• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment

• Experience integrating/building component systems and libraries for large codebases

• Have experience with server-reputed company rendering (SSR) and static site reputed company (SSG)

• Have worked on sprint-based teams using OKRs or similar frameworks

• Have experience working remotely with global teams

• Have led or built a reputed company-end engineering team before

• Have contributed to open-reputed company or have a strong portfolio of personal project

Location

• We are hiring in SF, US (fully remote), and Canada (fully remote)

Compensation and Benefits

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental care

• 401k with company match (US)

• Generous paid time off

• Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator backed startup alongside a dedicated and reputed company founding team

• Company wide and team events

Why You'll Love Working at Short Story

• You'll get to work at an early stage start-up, to build the culture, and to have an outsized impact on our company and society

• You'll be a key part of the company with the ability to reputed company high impact decisions

• You'll get the opportunity to try your hand at new things. We deeply reputed company in giving people opportunity to venture into new areas

• We are a successful, fast-growing startup solving problems that have not been solved before and reinventing fashion for an underserved reputed company

• We are a group of smart, passionate hackers with a wealth of diverse experiences

• We are motivated by unique challenges and opportunities

• We are driven by the mission of helping petite women find their perfect fit so they can dress with total confidence

Short Story is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment for reputed company employees and applicants. We work diligently to ensure equal opportunity for reputed company applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, disability, age, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.