Backend Engineer, shopware AG
Service Enablement Team
eCommerce platform powering online businesses
Be an early applicant
eCommerce platform powering online businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create trendsetting eCommerce solutions for the global community.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about scalable distributed systems, API-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions, with an interest in growing their skill set toward full-stack development
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in Go and/or TypeScript (Node.js)
- Solid experience working with AI-assisted coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Antigravity, with well-defined processes to ensure high-quality code generation
- Strong background in distributed systems, APIs (gRPC/REST), and service-to-service integrations
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL) and caches (Redis) at scale
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing and job queues (SQS or similar)
- Experience with Cloud (AWS), containerized deployments (Docker, ECS), and Terraform
- Clear communication, ownership mindset, and fluent English
What the job involves
- Shopware is a leading ecommerce system that enables companies worldwide to scale quickly and efficiently in digital commerce. As a trendsetting open source solution, Shopware is already used by some of the largest European brands, retailers, and manufacturers in the B2C and B2B industries
- We’re building a new enablement team, which will be responsible for our Shopware Pulse product area, encompassing everything related to managing subscriptions, payments, and overages for our Shopware Services
- As a Backend Engineer, you’ll own critical service-to-service infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs that power both internal operations and merchant-facing capabilities
- No matter where you work, you are an integral part of the team. Therefore, we are looking for a Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for the Service Enablement Team throughout Germany/Europe!
- Design, build, and evolve Go-based gRPC services, including OAuth flows, integrations, and caching strategies
- Build and operate the service backends in TypeScript/Node.js (e.g., Hono), including internal and merchant APIs, background workers, and scheduled jobs
- Shape contract-first APIs (Protobuf/OpenAPI), versioning strategies, and safe rollouts across multiple consumer services
- Own data reliability and consistency across Redis caches, MySQL persistence, and asynchronous job queues (SQS)
- Implement security and multi-tenant access patterns (M2M auth, signed query params, internal auth)
- Drive observability and resilience (structured logging, metrics, tracing, retries, and backpressure)
- Collaborate with platform/infra to optimize AWS-based deployments (ECS, Terraform, CI/CD, secrets management)
Application process
- Your personal contact for this position is Yanina Rudenko and is happy to answer any questions you may have!
Our take
The eCommerce boom in recent years has shown no signs of slowing down, and Shopware is capturing the opportunity. The company offers a set of open source tools to power the online shopping experience for hundreds of thousands of brands.
There are of course competitors, like Shopify Plus, but Shopware has stood out for serving mid-market companies that were not digitally-native businesses but had to take on digital channels to keep up with customer demand. This, combined with the obvious increase in brands and companies needing help when eCommerce became more mainstream, has served Shopware particularly well.
Founded in 2000, the company only received its first round of funding in 2022. Until then, it had been profitable off its own back. This capital and support from, among others, Carlyle and PayPal will be invested in its international growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2022
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Mobile Working
- Mobile Working Abroad
- Sports (Urban Sports Club)
- Special Leave Days
- Private Hardware Use
- Phone Contract/Reimbursement
- Shopware Coins
- Educational Leave
- Learning & Development Offers
- Career Progression Framework
- Mentoring @ Shopware
- Events
- English for everyone
- Employee Asistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus
- 10 Year Anniversary Vacation
- Welcome Backpack (incl. Merch & Clothes)
Company HQ
Borken, Schöppingen, Germany
Leadership
Sebastian Hamann
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Co-Founded Shopware at the age of 15.
Stegan Hamann
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Entered the professional world once founding Shopware.
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