Elastic Path is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Self-Managed Commerce product team. This headless commerce platform empowers customers to self-deploy services in AWS using our CloudOps tooling. Built with Java 17, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, JBoss Drools, and ehCache, it supports some of the world’s leading eCommerce brands, including T-Mobile, Pokémon, Intuit, and Swisscom.

The Staff Software Engineer plays a crucial role in driving technical excellence and creating architectural designs for new product features. This role exists to foster a culture of high-quality code, robust testing, and scalable design while ensuring the implementation of well-structured and maintainable solutions. By designing and refining system architectures, the Staff Software Engineer contributes to the organization’s technical direction to achieve business goals and drive innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture: Produce technical design documents for stories, ensuring scalability, configurability, resilience, and performance. Ensure that solutions are generic and reusable for a wide variety of purposes. Designs should include interface documentation / wireframes for all external APIs and user interfaces, and should be presented for review by other team members.
Code Quality: Write production-ready code that is testable, understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Bias towards self-documenting code.
Testing Strategy: Influence testing strategies by understanding team approaches and identifying gaps using quality metrics.
Systematic Debugging: Diagnose issues across the product using systematic debugging techniques.
Observability: Foster a culture of observability, using operational data to improve stability and performance.
Security: Collaborate with security teams to implement and promote a security-first mindset in all designs and implementations.
Risk Management: Effectively handle risk, change, and uncertainty, making responsible decisions in routine and high-pressure situations.
Feedback Culture: Encourage delivering and receiving constructive feedback to foster growth within the team.
Effective Communication: Ensure clear, concise communication, actively listening and ensuring understanding. Document best practices, considerations, and templates for design documents.
Team Support: Assist the team in resolving blockers and completing tasks, sharing credit where due. Be available to answer questions and improve clarity as required by the implementation team.

What experience do you need to Be Remarkable in this position?

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
7+ years of experience in software development and architecture in languages such as Go, Java, or C#Experience writing and presenting detailed technical specifications for new features
Proficient in systematic debugging and operational data analysis.
Strong understanding of testing frameworks, security best practices, and economic thinking
Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills
Proven ability to manage risk, change, and uncertainty effectively
Preferably some ecommerce experience, however not required

Who we are:

Elastic Path is on a mission to break through the barriers that prevent commerce leaders from delivering extraordinary shopping experiences. Today, that means making Composable Commerce accessible to all brands by reducing the cost, time, and overall risk of implementing and managing a multi-vendor approach.

With Elastic Path, both business and tech teams are able to innovate on their own terms, fully embrace composability, and in turn, never compromise on what’s possible. Learn more at www.elasticpath.com.

Be Open. Be Remarkable. Be the Team. Be the Customer. The values we live by.

The Perks?

We go the extra mile to provide you & your family with exceptional benefits, wherever you may be located.
This includes paid vacation and sick leave, stock options, full extended health, dental and additional coverages
You’ll get access to annual stipends for your own professional development, remote working and more
We are a Remote-First company, however we have five office hub locations in our major cities.
If you live in proximity to one of our Hubs you’ll have the option to flex between remote and in-office if desired!
We provide solutions to bring all teams together for collaboration and connection throughout the year
We have a Work from Anywhere program that gives you the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. Talk about travel perks!
Outstanding Company Culture - Certified Great Place to Work organization in Canada, US and UK

You can check out all this and more about us on our careers page

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