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Shopware

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 2022-02

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Shopware is an innovative open-source ecommerce platform that empowers businesses to deliver seamless and unified commerce experiences across multiple channels. With a focus on flexibility and scalability, Shopware enables both B2B and B2C businesses to automate operations, integrate advanced features like AI and spatial commerce, and customize their shopping experiences without the need for extensive coding. Recognized as a leader in the digital commerce space, Shopware supports businesses in navigating the complexities of the ecommerce landscape, ensuring that they are future-ready and capable of sustainable growth.

📋 Description

• Design, development and continuous enhancement of Go-based gRPC services, including OAuth flows, integrations and caching strategies • Development and operation of service backends in TypeScript/Node.js, including internal and merchant APIs, background workers and scheduled jobs • Designing contract-first APIs with Protobuf/OpenAPI, as well as versioning strategies and safe rollouts • Responsibility for data reliability and consistency across Redis caches, MySQL persistence and asynchronous job queues • Implementing security and multi-tenant access patterns including M2M authentication, signed query parameters and internal authentication mechanisms • Building and advancing observability and resilience including structured logs, metrics, tracing, retry mechanisms and backpressure strategies • Close collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams to optimize AWS-based deployments

🎯 Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in backend development with Go and/or TypeScript (Node.js) • Solid experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code and Antigravity, including well-defined processes to ensure high-quality code generation • Strong background in distributed systems, APIs (gRPC/REST) and service-to-service integrations • Experience with relational databases (MySQL) and caching systems (Redis) in production and under high load • Familiarity with asynchronous processing and job queues (SQS or comparable systems) • Experience with cloud infrastructures (AWS), containerized deployments (Docker, ECS) and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform • Clear communication skills • Strong ownership mindset • Fluent in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent contracts providing long-term security • Flexible working hours • Options for mobile work and fully remote contracts • Choice of work hardware • Well-structured onboarding with support from a personal "buddy" • Diverse opportunities for personal growth and development • Company pension plan • Health programs • Regular team events • Open culture and flat hierarchies • Inspiring environment with committed colleagues and a dynamic community