About Depict.ai
Depict.ai is redefining the future of fashion e-commerce with AI.

Founded by Oliver Edholm and Anton Osika, we’ve entered a new growth phase with products that our customers truly love. From AI-powered merchandising to GPT-driven search, we’re pioneering solutions that make e-commerce smarter, faster, and more personalized.

Our customers span the Nordics, UK, USA and now, we’re looking for exceptional engineers to help us shape the next chapter.

We collaborate with some of the fastest-growing DTC brands and nine-figure online retailers across Europe and the U.S. Depict is backed by world-class investors including Y Combinator, Initialized, EQT Ventures, and Northzone.

The Role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Depict.ai, you will own and evolve the backend systems that power real time search, merchandising, recommendations and AI workflows used daily by leading fashion brands.

You will work close to product, and customers, designing robust, scalable services that sit at the core of our platform. This is a hands on role with significant technical ownership, architectural influence, and real customer impact.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and operate high performance backend services (FastAPI) that power search, merchandising rules, ranking, and recommendations

• Build and maintain integrations with Shopify and other leading e-commerce platforms, including high volume sync, webhook processing, and data reconciliation.

• Work closely with ML engineers on RAG systems, vector search, and LLM powered workflows

• Scale and harden the platform globally by improving caching, database performance (Postgres/ClickHouse), load handling, and operational resilience

• Participate in the engineering on call rotation and help raise the bar for operational excellence

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong experience building production backend systems

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems such as API design, consistency trade-offs, async processing, queues/workers, caching, and failure modes

• Experience with PostgreSQL and data pipelines consuming multiple external APIs

• Hands on experience running production systems on Kubernetes

• Practical experience designing data pipelines/workflows (You’ve built systems that keep working when upstream APIs are flaky or data is messy)

• Practical experience working with or alongside AI systems such as vector search, LLM orchestration, or ML powered services

• You’re product-minded, you understand how latency, relevance, and reliability map to business outcomes in commerce.

• Comfortable taking ownership, mentoring others, and make pragmatic decisions without creating unnecessary complexity

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities.

• 30 days paid vacation + wellness and learning allowances.

• Work on the bleeding edge of AI in e-commerce.

• Collaborate with a tight-knit, ambitious team in Stockholm.

• See the impact of your work on real customers around the world.