Senior E-commerce Backend Engineer: AI Native (f/m/d)

Backend Platform Development: Design, build, maintain, and extend backend services, APIs, and integration layers that support Edmund Optics' modular e-commerce architecture and customer-facing web experiences

AI-Native Software Development: Use AI coding agents and agentic development workflows as a core part of day-to-day engineering to generate, refactor, test, debug, document, and accelerate production code. Validate AI-generated output for correctness, security, maintainability, and performance rather than treating generated code as automatically production-ready

E-commerce Systems Integration: Integrate key e-commerce capabilities including personalization platforms, semantic/LLM search and discovery, DAM, PIM, analytics and data services, and other modular components as the e-commerce ecosystem evolves

Enterprise Data & ERP Integration: Build and maintain reliable integrations between the e-commerce platform and internal enterprise systems, including SAP/HANA, product, pricing, inventory, customer, order, and other business data required to support e-commerce experiences and transactions

API & Service Architecture: Develop scalable, secure, well-documented APIs and services that allow internal applications, third-party platforms, and customer-facing experiences to exchange data efficiently and consistently

LLM & Semantic Capabilities: Partner with e-commerce, search, data, and AI teams to integrate LLM-enabled and semantic capabilities into the site, including retrieval, product discovery, conversational experiences, and supporting data pipelines or service layers

Quality, Testing & Debugging: Build automated testing and validation into development workflows. Use AI-assisted debugging where appropriate while maintaining strong standards for code review, observability, performance, regression prevention, and production reliability

Modular Architecture & Reusability: Develop services and components with clear boundaries, reusable interfaces, and maintainable integration patterns that support continued movement toward a more modular and composable e-commerce architecture

Vendor & Partner Collaboration: Work directly with technology vendors, implementation partners, and internal teams to understand technical requirements, review integration approaches, troubleshoot issues, and translate platform capabilities into production solutions

Continuous Improvement & Emerging Tools: Stay current with AI-assisted software development, agentic coding workflows, backend architecture, integration patterns, and emerging e-commerce technologies. Evaluate new approaches pragmatically and adopt those that measurably improve engineering speed, quality, or maintainability

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered

7+ years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on backend, API, or systems integration work

Experience working with SAP and/or SAP HANA data and integration patterns

Demonstrated recent experience using AI-assisted or agentic coding workflows in real software development, not solely experimentation or prompt-based prototyping

Strong hands-on backend software engineering experience building production web applications, services, APIs, and integrations

Strong engineering judgment and demonstrated ability to use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools to write, refactor, test, debug, and document code as part of a professional software development workflow

Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, service integrations, data interfaces, and modern backend application patterns

Experience integrating multiple enterprise or SaaS platforms within a production web or e-commerce environment

Strong understanding of databases, data modeling, SQL, system-to-system data flows, error handling, and integration reliability

Experience with source control, automated testing, code review, CI/CD practices, logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting

Ability to work effectively with frontend developers, architects, product and e-commerce teams, data teams, enterprise application owners, and external implementation partners

Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and comfort working in an evolving environment where architecture and tools will continue to change

Ability to communicate technical concepts, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Fluency in English