Staff Fullstack Engineer, Retail

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

📋 Description

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

• Design scalable, distributed frontend and backend solutions within the Transaction domain.

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

• Stay actively involved in both frontend and backend development, creating customer-facing React experiences and scalable Java backend functionalities.

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

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

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

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

• Foster alignment between Checkout, Payments, Orders, Shipping, and associated teams.

• Mentor engineers and guide architecture and design discussions.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and engineering leadership to identify opportunities and translate business needs into a technical strategy.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Experience contributing to production backend services and APIs.

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

• Proven track record in designing complex systems and driving architectural decisions that impact multiple teams or domains.

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

• Ability to mentor seasoned engineers and facilitate architecture and design discussions.

• Capacity to introduce engineering standards and support high-quality technical decisions.

• Strong business acumen and product judgment.

• Proficient in collaborating effectively with Product, UX, Security, SRE, and engineering stakeholders.

• Ability to leverage metrics and evidence to inform decisions.

• Experience in checkout, payments, orders, e-commerce, or marketplace systems is a significant advantage.

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

• Knowledge of technologies including React.js, Next.js, Java, Spring Boot, SwiftUI, Swift, Kotlin, Android SDK, ES6, ESI, Varnish, Docker, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Urban Sports Club membership (M) package.

• Flexible remote work arrangement, allowing up to 20 days per year anywhere within the EU.

• Fully funded Deutschland Ticket.

• A variety of 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.

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

• 20% discount on nu3 products.