backend engineer for grocery storefronts

The marketplace’s Storefront Team builds the customer-facing experience for discovering partners, browsing product catalogs, viewing product details, and completing purchases. Its backend solutions support multiple partners while improving performance, personalization, conversion, and partner integration.

• Develop backend services for a grocery storefront, including catalogs, categories, search, product detail pages, cart, and checkout
• Handle large catalogs and assortments that vary by store, warehouse, or user location
• Manage frequently changing prices, inventory, discounts, and product availability
• Validate carts before checkout, including prices, availability, quantity limits, minimum order values, and store restrictions
• Support grocery-specific scenarios such as weighted products, unavailable items, and substitutions
• Integrate with catalog, pricing, inventory, order, payment, and delivery services
• Onboard grocery partners with different APIs and data models
• Ensure low latency, high availability, and resilience of customer-facing flows

• Proven experience in the grocery industry
• 5+ Years of commercial backend engineering experience, including solving complex problems in high-load environments
• Strong knowledge of Go and practical experience with its advanced features
• Strong SQL knowledge, including schema design, scaling strategies (replication, partitioning, sharding), and query optimization for high-load environments
• In-depth knowledge of Redis data structures and their efficient use in high-load systems
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes or similar tools, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication patterns, focusing on reliability in high-load environments
• Knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and efficient client-server interactions and their limitations
• Ability to design and implement an observability strategy covering metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing
• Interest in new technologies, a collaborative spirit, and motivation to continuously develop skills

• Access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
• International experience through the Global Talent Exchange Program
• Company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact, and volunteering projects
• Co-financed language courses and internal speaking clubs
• Final benefits may vary depending on the location