Backend Engineer

About the role

Shopware is building a new team for the Shopware Pulse product area, which manages subscriptions, payments, and service overages. As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for central service-to-service infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs that power both internal operations and merchant-facing functions. You will work on scalable, distributed systems and cloud-native solutions while collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Entwurf, Entwicklung und kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung von Go-basierten gRPC-Services, einschließlich OAuth-Flows, Integrationen und Caching-Strategien
• Entwicklung und Betrieb von Service-Backends in TypeScript/Node.js, einschließlich interner und Merchant-APIs, Background-Workern und geplanten Jobs
• Gestaltung von Contract-First-APIs (Protobuf/OpenAPI), inklusive Versionierungsstrategien und sicherer Rollouts
• Verantwortung für Datenzuverlässigkeit und -konsistenz über Redis-Caches, MySQL-Persistenz und asynchrone Job-Queues
• Implementierung von Sicherheits- und Multi-Tenant-Zugriffsmustern, darunter M2M-Authentifizierung und interne Authentifizierungsmechanismen
• Aufbau und Weiterentwicklung von Observability und Resilienz, einschließlich strukturierter Logs, Metriken, Tracing und Retry-Mechanismen
• Enge Zusammenarbeit mit Platform- und Infrastruktur-Teams zur Optimierung AWS-basierter Deployments

Required skills

• Go
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Distributed systems
• gRPC
• REST
• MySQL
• Redis
• SQS
• AWS
• Docker
• ECS
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code

Qualifications

• More than 5 years of experience in backend development with Go and/or TypeScript
• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Full-remote contracts
• Choice of hardware
• Structured onboarding
• Company pension scheme
• Health programs
• Team events

About the Company

Shopware is a leading open-source e-commerce system that helps companies worldwide scale their digital trade efficiently. It is used by some of the largest European brands, merchants, and manufacturers in both B2C and B2B environments.