Senior Backend Engineer II

About LeafLink

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology.  LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’; one of Fast Company's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020', joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare; one of Built In NYC's 'Best Places to Work in 2021'; 2024 Fast Company’s Best WorkPlaces for Innovators for Banking, Finance, and Fintech category; 2024 Green Market Report Award for Best Fintech in cannabis - and we're just getting started!

The Role 

LeafLink is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to join our remote-friendly team, headquartered in NYC, who is passionate about working with teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems at a rapid pace. This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of LeafLink’s existing and emerging eCommerce systems, focused on the engagement of our retailers.

LeafLink is currently gearing up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry. As such, this role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this new platform, as well as work within new and growing technologies. It’s a very exciting time to join our engineering team!

Ideal candidates for this position are sharp problem-solvers who can identify and implement effective solutions while collaborating seamlessly with diverse team members. They should be personable, efficient, adaptable, and communicative, with a strong drive to foster change, embrace growth, and continuously mature in their role. A genuine passion for their work is essential. This role offers the opportunity to thrive as a high performer within a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly expanding department.

What You’ll be Doing

• Help design and continue to refine eCommerce workflows as well as the APIs that power orders and invoicing. 
• Lead by example for other members of the team as a dedicated, passionate, and flexible technologist who is constantly looking for the ideal solution to a problem.
• Be heavily involved in architectural decisions and the buildout of LeafLink’s new event-driven, service-oriented platform.
• Be involved with critical software design decisions that will have a lasting impact on LeafLink’s platform and products.
• Build integrations with our various third-party solutions and procurement partners.
• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense.
• Work on robust shopping experience systems and services.
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery.
• Work with other team members to build and deliver industry-leading API tools that our dynamic user base has come to rely upon to power their businesses.
• Be able to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues quickly and effectively when they arise.
• Provide technical guidance and help mentor engineering, QA, operations, and product staff to deliver the best possible solutions for the company.
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas.
• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• 5+ years working in a fast-paced software environment as an engineer focused on B2B marketplace or eCommerce systems, with an understanding of industry best practices.
• Ideal candidates will have experience in highly regulated industries with heavy compliance requirements, e.g. Healthcare, Cannabis, Financial products. 
• Proven track record of practical, thoughtful problem-solving.
• Experience working on high-traffic, large-scale decoupled, event-driven, service-oriented systems.
• Experience refactoring legacy systems in an iterative fashion.
• Extensive experience working with NodeJS and modern web framew