Platform Software Engineer (Remote)

About this role

At Happy Returns, we’re transforming the most frustrating part of online shopping — returns — into a fast, easy, and delightful experience. Our Platform team builds and maintains the core data platform to support our business, as well as internal tools to support our engineering efforts. We design reliable, scalable services that enable product teams to ship quickly, data teams to operate efficiently, and retailers and shoppers to have seamless experiences.

As a Platform Software Engineer, you’ll build and operate backend services and shared platform systems that power Happy Returns’ products and internal workflows. You’ll focus on designing and maintaining reliable APIs, data-access layers, and service integrations that improve system reliability, performance, and the developer experience across the company.

Your day to day

• Take ownership of the successful implementation and delivery of new features and projects using a variety of languages and frameworks such as Golang, Python, and PostgreSQL
• Build and maintain data pipelines and tooling powering analytics, operational workflows, and product capabilities
• Actively participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of the Happy Returns system
• Enforce clean code coding standards and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews and upholding a commitment to testing and maintainability
• Learn from senior engineers, contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions, and continuously expand your technical and problem-solving skills as you grow into more complex projects
• Partner with Product, Data, and other engineering teams to translate their needs into technical solutions

• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation workflows
• Support the health and stability of our systems through thoughtful testing monitoring, and debugging

What you need to bring

• 1-3 years of...