Senior Backend Engineer – Marketplace Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Storefront Team and shape the core customer‑facing experience of our marketplace. You will design and deliver high‑performance services that power product discovery, catalog browsing, cart and checkout for grocery partners across multiple regions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop backend services for catalog, categories, search, product detail pages, cart and checkout.
• Handle large, location‑specific product assortments with frequently changing prices, inventory and discounts.
• Validate carts before checkout, enforcing price accuracy, availability, quantity limits and store restrictions.
• Support grocery‑specific scenarios such as weighted items, substitutions and unavailable products.
• Integrate with catalog, pricing, inventory, order, payment and delivery systems.
• Onboard new grocery partners with diverse APIs and data models.
• Ensure low latency, high availability and resilience of customer‑facing flows.

Required profile

• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience in high‑load environments.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to design scalable, reliable systems.
• Experience with microservice architectures and observability strategies.

Required skills

• Go programming language.
• Advanced SQL (schema design, replication, partitioning, sharding, query optimisation).
• Redis and its data structures.
• Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration).
• Cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Synchronous and asynchronous inter‑service communication patterns.
• Observability tools for metrics, logging and tracing.

What we offer

• Opportunity to impact a marketplace used in 48 countries.
• Mentoring, career consulting and learning programs.
• Global talent exchange and international collaboration.
• Company‑wide challenges, awards and social impact projects.