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 frontend and backend solutions within the Transaction domain

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

• Identify risks that extend beyond a single team

• Maintain hands-on involvement in both frontend and backend development using React and TypeScript

• Contribute to backend services and APIs

• Shape customer-facing experiences 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 architecture, performance, security, testing, observability, and reliability practices

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

• Align Checkout, Payments, Orders, Shipping, and related teams

• Mentor engineers and lead architecture and design discussions

• Provide technical guidance without relying on formal authority

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical strategy

• Use data, metrics, and industry trends to assess trade-offs and prioritize high-impact investments

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Staff/Principal-level experience or equivalent technical scope

• Experience in designing complex systems and making architectural decisions that impact multiple teams or domains

• Proven track record of leading through influence and developing other engineers

• Ability to mentor experienced engineers and facilitate architecture and design discussions

• Experience in establishing engineering standards and empowering teams to make high-quality technical decisions independently

• Strong business acumen and product judgment

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

• Ability to use metrics and evidence to drive decision-making

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Urban Sports Club membership (M) package

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

• Fully subsidized Deutschland Ticket

• Various internal and external training opportunities

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

• Option to take up to 10 days of unpaid leave after one year

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

• 20% discount on nu3 products