Job Description

Role:

SAP Commerce Cloud 2026

REMOTE

Skills

Extensive ecommerce experience and the latest capabilities in the space. Exposure and usage of major ecommerce

platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts etc)

Expert knowledge of backend technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and how to get the most out of them

e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL

An advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and

methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.ioetc)

Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others; A deep

understanding of cloud native methodologies

Containerization technologies:

Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools

(e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)

An applied knowledge of vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic,

Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns

Understanding of REST, GraphQLand event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g.

Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)

Experience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK

Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc

A strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe's, and other Authzand Authnbest practices and

tooling

Strong competence in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g. Java, JavaScript, HTML,

CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSSetc

Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JSetc)

Strong communication and presentation skills

Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent

Responsibilities

Help with and Implement the Backend Architectural Artifacts

Platform level systems and services (PIM, ERP, Commerce, CMS, Marketing etc), their relationships and interconnectivity

Implementation level architecture for secure, cloud-native, scalable & performant backend services (monoliths,

microservices, modularization)

Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records

Enable the team to live our Backend Engineering Policies, Procedures and Standards

CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc

Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement

Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements

(scalability, performance, security, compliance)

Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices

Drive Ecommerce and Parts Town wide projects

Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning capabilities

Logging strategies for efficient root cause analysis and low MTTR's

Monitoring, Alerting and on-call policies

Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies

Ongoing metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc)

Drive best in class Backend strategies

Our customers need to love what we do for them

Work across disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Backend discipline

Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend practices across the engineering org