Senior Software Engineer - Core Commerce Platform

Core Commerce Platform Role

What You Will Do

• Design and operate secure, observable, resilient Java and Spring Boot services and low-latency APIs for inventory availability and order promising.
• Implement concurrency-control and consistency patterns to prevent overselling.
• Build event-driven inventory processing with Kafka or similar technologies.
• Integrate services with OMS, commerce, WMS, ERP, store, and fulfilment platforms.
• Own complex services from technical design through production.
• Write tested maintainable code, participate in reviews, and maintain technical documentation.
• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor production services, troubleshoot issues, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Lead component-level design and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers and establish engineering standards and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating scalable, high-availability, consumer-facing platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and modern microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
• Deep understanding of caching strategies and experience with Redis or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, consistency, and transactional integrity patterns.
• Experience designing resilient event-driven solutions for peak trading and high-volume conditions.
• Experience designing graceful degradation and fallback mechanisms.
• Strong experience with observability, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting, and operational excellence.
• Experience using coding agents, LLMs, or AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery.

Desirable and Preferred Experience

• Understanding of inventory management, order promising, and delivery estimation models is highly desirable.
• Experience configuring, customizing, or extending OMS platform capabilities is preferred.
• Experience with Fluent Commerce or comparable OMS platforms such as IBM Sterling OMS, Manhattan Associates, Kibo, or Salesforce OMS is advantageous.

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