Staff Fullstack 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.

• Design scalable, distributed solutions that encompass both frontend and backend aspects.

• Facilitate intricate architectural decisions while making data-driven trade-offs regarding performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

• Identify technical risks that extend beyond a single team.

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

• Shape customer-facing experiences and scalable backend functionalities 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 best practices.

• Transform recurring technical challenges into reusable patterns, guidelines, and platform capabilities.

• Foster alignment between 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 pinpoint opportunities and convert business needs into technical strategies.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth, hands-on frontend engineering expertise in React and TypeScript.

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

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

• Experience operating at Staff/Principal level or demonstrated 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 mentoring other engineers.

• Capability to mentor experienced engineers and facilitate architecture and design discussions.

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

• Strong business acumen and product judgment.

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

• Proficiency in using metrics and evidence to inform decisions.

• 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, allowing up to 20 days per year anywhere within the EU.

• Fully covered Deutschland Ticket.

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

• 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.

• 20% discount on nu3 products.