Senior Backend Engineer – Studio, fully remote (f/*/m)

last updated October 12, 2022 15:24 UTC
Location: No location restrictions, we hire remotely worldwide 🌍

Language: We operate internally and externally in English (US)

Hours: 40 hours per week for full-time. You are free to choose your own hours as long as there’s some overlap during the daytime of our CET team for meetings and other internal cultural events

Part-time options: We will consider part-time options for this role, please mention what you’re looking for in your application

Level: Senior (5+ years)

Salary: Starting at €53,500 – €64,750 for full-time

Note: We have defined a salary range for this role based on the level of initiative and experience we’re looking for. This is not the “limit” and there’s room for you to grow with us in commercetools Frontend – we’re currently running a separate framework and process from our parent company which will be aligned in the future.

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🌟 The Opportunity
We continue to improve and extend the first and most important business user touchpoint, the Studio. To do so we’ll grow the team with more passionate engineers. Do you like to implement an amazing user experience that allows users to create incredible eCommerce sites on top of headless APIs? Do you like visually appealing but also functional frontends that make complex tasks look simple? Would you like to improve a web application based on user research and usage data together with a product team? Then this position could be perfect for you!

🚀 Your Mission
  • Extend our existing web application based on React, PHP, Symfony, and CouchDB with new user workflows based on input from our Product team
  • Discover solutions for user challenges together with our Product team
  • Continuously enhance the technical foundation of the web application, for example, updating for new PHP, Framework, and library versions
  • Closely collaborate with your colleagues to learn and improve together
👉 What is it like working in our team?
“We are a very technical team, and we approach every challenge head-on. We know we can rely on each other, and we live by our values — we’re in this together. With a unique product comes unique challenges, and we overcome them using our strengths and expertise.” – Jim, Engineering Manager

💪 What you will accomplish in your first 90-days
  • Meet your colleagues from other departments and get accustomed to our values and ways of working
  • Get familiar with our stack and tools
  • Complete your onboarding plan and attend commercetools onboarding sessions
🧩 What you need to succeed
  • Thorough knowledge of PHP and Symfony
  • Experience with CouchDB is a big plus but certainly not required, general experience with NoSQL databases is a plus, but not required
  • Experience with deploying, monitoring, and generally operating a PHP production application
  • Experience in testing PHP code: domain logic with unit tests, and the most critical user paths with integration tests
  • Knowledge of React, TypeScript/JavaScript, and CSS is a plus, but not required
  • Knowledge of infrastructure automation, especially with ansible, is a plus, but not required
⚙️Our stack
  • React (plain and TypeScript) and Next.js in the frontend
  • MaterialUI, SCSS, and Tailwind
  • PHP with Symfony and Nodejs in the backend
  • MySQL and CouchDB as databases
🚀 About Us
At commercetools for Growth, we’re a fully remote company a Series C company valued at ¢1.9bn, and were named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce for the second year in a row.

We are formerly Frontastic, a remote-first company since 2017 we know how to do remote work properly. We joined commercetools in November 2021 and are still growing and focused on our mission: Let commerce teams build the incredible. Do you want to be part of this exciting journey?

🤝 Our hiring process
We have designed our hiring process with the candidate experience in mind. This is important to us as we know to build the best product possible, we need the best people. Learn more about our hiring process.

🕒 We aim to respond to all candidates within 72 hours (except on weekends).

2️⃣ You’ll then be invited to a short technical assessment though Codility (depending on number of applicants)

3️⃣ Discovery call (45min) with Alexandra Ionescu, our Head of Engineering, to discuss the role, our culture, and find out if it’s a good alignment with your own preferences and skills, as well

4️⃣ Culture questions (via email) to see how you approach important topics such as growth and work planning

5️⃣ First Interview (50min) with Tobias Schlitt, Principal Backend Engineer to discuss our Studio product

6️⃣ Coffee Break (30min) an informal chat with members of the team to get to know who you’ll be working with

👏 We’re offering
  • A remote setup and processes tailored for remote workers
  • An open learning and development budget, including an internal learning academy
  • The freedom of planning your work around life and not the other way round — we want you to bring your full self to work, and this includes owning your daily routines
  • A company laptop of your choice and a personal budget for any additional equipment you need — you will be able to purchase it yourself with a virtual company credit card
💬 We’d love to hear from you
If you have any questions about the role, email our Talent team at people@frontastic.cloud. Applications will only be accepted directly through the job application form.

Want to know more about us? You can find out more on our website.

If this role is not for you, but you know of someone who’d be a great fit, we would really appreciate it if you could share this role with them!

ℹ️ Equal Opportunities
🔍 Are you looking for something else? Check out our Career Page and our Website for more information.
We are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from awide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.

commercetools celebrates being adiverse environment and is proud to be anequal opportunities employer. If your professional profile aligns with our specific hiring requirements and company culture, then we encourage you to apply. We will assessyour competencies, future potential, approachto learning and self-development, and passion, and not your age, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, genetics, or disability.

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