Staff Engineer, Retail

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership across two engineering teams and their interconnected domains.

• Architect scalable distributed solutions for both frontend and backend systems.

• Facilitate architectural decisions and make informed trade-offs regarding performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

• Identify risks that extend beyond individual teams.

• Maintain a hands-on approach across frontend and backend technologies, utilizing React and Java.

• Shape customer-facing checkout experiences along with scalable backend capabilities.

• Influence solutions from the discovery phase and system design through to implementation and production.

• Assist in establishing the groundwork for future native iOS and Android checkout experiences.

• Drive best practices in architecture, performance, security, testing, observability, and reliability.

• Develop reusable patterns, guidelines, and platform functionalities.

• Align Checkout, Payments, Orders, Shipping, and relevant teams for cohesive operation.

• Mentor engineers and facilitate discussions on architecture and design.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and engineering leadership on technical strategies.

• Utilize data, metrics, and industry trends to prioritize impactful investments and technological decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on full-stack engineering expertise with React and Java.

• Proven production ownership of customer-facing frontend applications and backend services.

• Strong ability to analyze architecture, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.

• Experience at the Staff/Principal level or equivalent technical responsibility.

• Background in designing complex distributed systems.

• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions that impact multiple teams or domains.

• Experience in leading through influence and mentoring other engineers.

• Ability to guide experienced engineers and facilitate discussions on architecture and design.

• Experience in establishing engineering standards.

• Strong business acumen and product judgment.

• Capability to collaborate with Product, UX, Security, SRE, and engineering stakeholders.

• Proficiency in using metrics and evidence for decision-making.

• Familiarity with checkout, payments, orders, e-commerce, or marketplace systems is highly advantageous.

• Exposure to native Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift development is a valuable asset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Urban Sports Club membership (M package).

• Flexible work-from-home arrangement, including up to 20 days per year anywhere in the EU.

• Fully funded Deutschland Ticket.

• Access to internal and external training, along with individual development support.

• 30 days of paid vacation per year, plus an additional day on Rosenmontag.

• Option to take up to 10 days of unpaid vacation after one year of service.

• 10% employee discount on over-the-counter, beauty, and personal care products in the online store.

• 20% discount on nu3 products.