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

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 Forbes, Fortune and are backed by leading investors who share our vision of building the world's next great consumer brand.

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 better solutions.

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

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

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

Short Story is a wardrobe-as-a-service that connects petite women with clothing that actually fits. Behind the scenes, our tools enable 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.

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 coder — you’re a technical leader, problem solver, and multiplier. 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.

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• 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 front-end tooling like Webpack and Yarn

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

• You’ve translated designs from Figma 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 front-end performance and build for scalability

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

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

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

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

• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment

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

• Have experience with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG)

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

• Have experience working remotely with global teams

• Have led or built a front-end engineering team before

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

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

• 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 make high impact decisions

• You'll get the opportunity to try your hand at new things. We deeply believe 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 segment

• 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 all employees and applicants. We work diligently to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.