Backend Software Engineer - Core Outfitting:
Full-Time | EST Hours | USD $6,000-$9,000/month | Long-Term Contractor
- About the Company
- Our client is a well-established technology company building AI-powered solutions for large-scale retail and e-commerce platforms. Their products power personalization, product discovery, and automated merchandising experiences used by millions of shoppers every month across web, mobile, and in-store channels.
- What differentiates their platform is not only advanced AI capabilities, but also more than a decade of proprietary data, workflows, quality controls, and domain expertise. These foundations allows them to deliver production-grade, brand-safe AI systems that operate reliably at enterprise scale.
About the Role
- They're building the future of AI-powered fashion & retail automation, and they need a craftsperson who lives and breathes Clojure.
- Here's what they're actually building: AI workflows that generate outfit images, styled bundles, and "Complete the Look" recommendations at scale.
Systems that pair products into looks that boost AOV and drive conversion. Intelligent review flows where humans and AI collaborate to produce millions of styled recommendations. Vector search architectures that power semantic discovery and product similarity across our catalog. All of this content must reach shoppers through high-scale APIs serving 175+ enterprise retailers and 100M+ shoppers monthly, fast, reliable, and integrated into our existing platform.
- You'll work in Clojure and ClojureScript across the stack, but this is backend-heavy. You'll own features end-to-end: from schema design to API implementation to the review UI that your colleagues use daily.
- They're a team of 12+ Clojure engineers who move fast and care about craft. They value ownership deeply. You'll have autonomy to architect solutions, make technical decisions, and ship production code quickly. If you're curious, opinionated about good code, and excited to bui