Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and optimize scalable microservices that power our eCommerce and enterprise platforms
- Drive backend architecture and ensure seamless integration across systems like commerce, CMS, ERP, PIM, and marketing
- Champion best practices in modularization, API design, and event-driven architectures
- Leverage Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies to create secure, high-performance services
- Own backend engineering policies, CI/CD pipelines, and testing automation to ensure reliable deployments
- Define logging, observability, and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring high availability
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and data teams to optimize system performance
- Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural decisions
- Design scalable, cloud-native microservices and ensure seamless interoperability between platforms (eCommerce, CMS, ERP, PIM, marketing)
- Advocate for modularization, API-first, event-driven architectures, and domain-driven design
- Establish CI/CD practices, automated testing, and backend tooling standards
- Drive adoption of best practices for service-to-service communication (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
- Lead disaster recovery strategies, define observability and logging best practices, and drive automated testing strategies
- Work with frontend, DevOps, and data teams to optimize APIs, caching, and databases
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with other Principal Engineers to ensure engineering excellence
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) with match
- Employee assistance programs
- Paid time off
- Paid sick time off
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Professional development opportunities
- Profit-sharing program (some roles)
- Annual bonus (depending on role)
Compensation
Profit-sharing program (some roles) and annual bonus (depending on role)
Work Arrangement
Remote (Country) — Remote
Team
The Ecommerce team is a fast-growing group that embraces the rapid change that comes with incredible growth. We bring our whole selves to work each day - personality and all - in true Parts Town style. At Parts Town, we value transparency and are committed to ensuring our team members feel appreciated and supported. We prioritize our positive workplace culture where collaboration, growth, and work-life balance are celebrated.
A Typical Day
Backend Architecture: Design scalable, cloud-native microservices and ensure seamless interoperability between platforms (eCommerce, CMS, ERP, PIM, marketing). Implementation & Best Practices: Leverage Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies to build high-performance services. Advocate for modularization, API-first, event-driven architectures, and domain-driven design. Engineering Standards: Establish CI/CD practices, automated testing, and backend tooling standards. Drive adoption of best practices for service-to-service communication (REST, GraphQL, gRPC). Operational Practices: Lead disaster recovery strategies, define observability and logging best practices, and drive automated testing strategies. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with frontend, DevOps, and data teams to optimize APIs, caching, and databases. Mentor engineers and collaborate with other Principal Engineers to ensure engineering excellence.
To Land This Opportunity
You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English. You have 10+ years of experience in backend system design, eCommerce, and distributed applications. You’re an expert in Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud-native platforms (Azure preferred). You‘re passionate and knowledgeable of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis), microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS), and API standards (REST, GraphQL). You possess experience with unit, integration, and contract testing (Jest, Mocha, Pact) and CI/CD (Terraform, Pulumi). You are a familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), serverless computing, Kubernetes, and containerization. You have proven ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across teams.
Other
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English required
