Staff Fullstack Engineer, Retail

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

📋 Description

• Deliver technical guidance across two engineering teams and their interconnected domains.

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

• Facilitate architectural choices and conduct data-informed trade-offs related to performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

• Recognize risks that extend beyond a single team.

• Maintain a hands-on role in both frontend and backend development.

• Enhance customer-facing experiences using React and develop scalable backend functionalities with Java.

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

• Establish the groundwork for future native iOS and Android checkout experiences.

• Promote the adoption of architecture, performance, security, testing, observability, and reliability best practices.

• Develop reusable patterns, guidelines, and platform capabilities to address recurring technical challenges.

• Align teams focused on Checkout, Payments, Orders, Shipping, and related areas.

• Mentor engineers and facilitate discussions on architecture and design.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and engineering leadership to define technical strategy.

• Utilize data, metrics, and industry trends to assess trade-offs and prioritize impactful investments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on frontend engineering expertise with React and TypeScript.

• Professional experience in backend development using at least one language or framework, such as Node.js, Java, or Python.

• Comfortable working across the technology stack and contributing to production backend services and APIs.

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

• Proven experience in designing complex systems and influencing architectural decisions that impact multiple teams or domains.

• Experience leading through influence and fostering the growth of other engineers.

• Capability to mentor seasoned engineers and guide architecture and design discussions.

• Ability to establish engineering standards and empower teams to make independent, high-quality technical decisions.

• Strong technical expertise combined with sound business and product judgment.

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

• Skilled in using metrics and empirical evidence to inform decision-making.

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

• Familiarity with native Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift development would be beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Membership in the Urban Sports Club (M) package.

• Work-from-home flexibility, including up to 20 days per year anywhere in the EU.

• Fully covered Deutschland Ticket.

• Access to various internal and external training opportunities.

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

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

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

• 20% discount on nu3 products.