Product Engineer – Core APIS Backend
Trafilea
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Role: Product Engineer – Core APIS Backend
- Required experience: 4+ years of backend development experience
- Core tech stack: Backend development using Golang and Node.js
- Key benefit: 100% Remote work arrangement
- Company scale: $1B+ cumulative revenue, 12M+ global customers, 500+ employees across 19 countries
- Technical requirement: Practical experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, etc.)
Role overview
Trafilea is a tech-led eCommerce platform that builds and scales its own globally loved DTC brands, while developing the AI Growth Engine that powers the next generation of consumer brands. The Product Engineer – Core APIS Backend role focuses on designing, delivering, and optimizing robust, high-performance backend systems that support these global brands, working on projects ranging from core backend components to AI-powered features with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and speed. The role is ideal for individuals who thrive on solving complex challenges, writing clean and efficient code, and collaborating in a fast-paced, product-focused environment, offering the opportunity to make an immediate global impact. The position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, applying AWS best practices, and continuously improving technical standards to serve millions of customers worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver robust, high-performance systems that power Trafilea’s globally loved DTC brands
- Work on projects ranging from core backend components to AI-powered features, with a consistent focus on scalability, reliability, and speed
- Architect, develop, and optimize backend services using Golang and Node.js to support millions of customers worldwide
- Design, build, and maintain REST APIs that enable seamless integrations across products, platforms, and teams
- Work with relational and non-relational databases, ensuring efficient data modeling, querying, and performance optimization
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, Marketing) to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Apply AWS best practices for scalable deployments, security, and cost optimization
- Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and reviews within the Agile/SCRUM environment
- Continuously identify and address technical debt, ensuring the stability and scalability of systems
- Document solutions and share knowledge to elevate technical standards across the team
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend development experience, with deep proficiency in Golang and . (mandatory)
- Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL database design and optimization
- Skilled in API development and integration patterns
- Proficient in Git/GitHub workflows and collaborative coding practices
- Practical experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, etc.)
- Advocate for secure, performant, and maintainable software
- Effective communicator—capable of explaining technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Curious, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement in a fast-moving environment
Benefits
- 100% Remote work arrangement
- Paid time off
- Additional unlisted perks (referenced as 'and more' in the job description)
Additional details
- Trafilea is a Consumer Tech Platform for Transformative Brand Growth building the AI Growth Engine that powers the next generation of consumer brands
- The company has over $1B+ in cumulative revenue, 12M+ customers, and 500+ talents across 19 countries, combining technology, growth marketing, and operational excellence to scale purpose-driven, digitally native brands
- Trafilea owns and operates its own digitally native brands (not an agency), with presence in Walmart, Nordstrom, and Amazon, and a strong global D2C footprint
- Company operating values: Builds and scales its own owned brands; invests heavily in AI and automation; tests and grows fast while supporting employee growth; fosters a dynamic, diverse, and talented global team
- The job description was originally posted on Himalayas