Senior Backend Engineer – Typescript

🕒 April 1

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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commercetools

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Series C on 2021-09

eCommerce • SaaS • Enterprise

commercetools is a leading provider of composable commerce platforms designed to enhance digital and omnichannel shopping experiences for B2B, B2C, and D2C enterprises. The company offers a flexible, enterprise-grade solution that allows organizations to effortlessly manage multiple business models, integrate various digital and physical touchpoints, and customize commerce experiences with ease. commercetools is recognized for its ability to streamline implementation processes and drive customer engagement through its innovative solutions, resulting in increased revenue and market adaptability. Their platform is cloud-native, ensuring speed, scalability, and high performance for a wide range of industries, including retail, telecommunications, automotive, and healthcare.

📋 Description

• Work closely with Product Management to understand the business needs and find appropriate technical solutions • Design, own and operate scalable, secure payment systems that handle financial transactions efficiently in a multi‑tenant Cloud/SaaS environment • Lead architecture reviews, make trade‑off decisions for scalability, security and maintainability, and coach other engineers on design and implementation • Design, implement and test in-store payment and payment device interactions including credit/debit, gift cards, digital wallets, and more • Contribute to the definition of the team roadmap • Lead end to end design, delivery, and reliability of our solutions • Define and drive platform patterns, CI/CD improvements, SLIs and SLOs, observability and testing strategy for our solutions' flows • Work with engineers from different teams to ensure technical excellence of the whole platform • Ensure that functional and non-functional requirements (performance, security) are met • Take part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a TypeScript backend engineer building and operating large-scale production systems, including designing CI/CD pipelines, integrating observability tooling, and implementing structured logging, among other platform best practices • Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O • Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency models, replication, and asynchronous processing, with a clear understanding of their practical trade-offs • Experience in developing REST API’s and knowledge of scalable architectures • Knowledge of document databases (MongoDB) and API interaction tools (such as Postman, or similar) • Fluent written and verbal English language skills for work in international teams • The aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn new technologies and concepts • A good understanding of Agile methodologies and participation in sprint events • Ability to work in a hybrid environment • AI Aptitude: A genuine curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively, paired with a drive to learn and put them into practice in your role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support • Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs • Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave, so you can spend more time with your new addition • Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success