Intermediate Backend Engineer

Lush Handmade Cosmetics • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$80,000 - CA$89,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Lush Handmade Cosmetics is a global enterprise with more than 900 retail shops in 52 countries focused on producing creative and indulgent cosmetics and bath products using only the freshest organic fruits and vegetables, pure essential oils, and safe synthetics. We are dedicated to fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities, and giving back through our Lush Giving Products which donate 75% to grassroots organizations that support people, animals and the planet.

The Team
Lush Digital leads digital strategy for Lush across online, retail & manufacturing globally, creating, developing and supporting the tools that drive the business. From design, artwork & photography to engineering, systems & data, we support all of Lush’s digital needs.

The Role
As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will contribute to backend services and tooling that support the Global business. Your responsibilities will include developing custom software, including our REST APIs, GraphQL subgraphs, extending open-source software like Saleor, ERPNext, and integrating with third-party solutions like Power BI, CloudSQL.
We endeavour to provide innovative solutions for bespoke LUSH use-cases. This role would suit a candidate who is passionate about developing high-quality, performant products which are suitable for for use in a global business.

Requirements

• A Python-first developer who is proficient in the native libraries and can demonstrate a genuine interest in Python coding philosophy and practices.
• Experience with TypeScript is a strong bonus
• Able to translate product or business requirements into technological initiatives.
• Able to autonomously debug and resolve issues.
• Comfortable writing complex SQL queries.
• Have a very good working knowledge of git.
• Have experience building web applications using a web framework like FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
• Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Strawberry or Ariadne, with Strawberry federation experience as a bonus.
• Have a good understanding of application packaging and deployment using pip/uv, virtual environments (venv), and pyproject.toml. Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with TypeScript is a strong bonus
• Strawberry federation experience as a bonus.
• Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal.

Responsibilities

• Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across projects and distributed development teams.
• Collaborate with engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide.
• Refactor, review and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business.
• Actively research and implement innovative techniques and features to enhance the development process.

Benefits

• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics and our independence, contributing ideas for the future and sharing in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed