SAP Commerce Cloud - Senior Backend developer
Help with and Implement the Backend Architectural Artifacts
Platform level systems and services (PIM, ERP, Commerce, CMS, Marketing etc), their relationships and interconnectivity
Implementation level architecture for secure, cloud-native, scalable & performant backend services (monoliths, microservices, modularization)
Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records
Support the delivery and maintenance of our Backend Engineering Policies, Procedures and Standards
CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc
Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement
Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)
Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices
Drive ecommerce and company wide projects
Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning capabilities
Logging strategies for efficient root cause analysis and low MTTR’s
Monitoring, Alerting and on-call policies
Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies
Ongoing metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc)
Drive best in class Backend strategies
Our customers need to love what we do for them
Work across disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Backend discipline
Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend practices across the engineering org
Qualifications
Extensive ecommerce experience and the latest capabilities in the space. Exposure and usage of major ecommerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts etc)
Expert knowledge of backend technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and how to get the most out of them e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
An advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.io etc)
Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others; A deep understanding of cloud native methodologies
Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)
An applied knowledge of vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic, Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns
Understanding of REST, GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)
Experience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc
A strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe’s, and other Authz and Authn best practices and tooling
Strong competence in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g. Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS etc
Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
Strong communication and presentation skills
Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent
5+ years of relevant industry experience
