Senior Engineer – Backend

Position at Parts Town See What We’re All About As the fastest-growing distributor of restaurant equipment, HVAC and residential appliance parts, we like to do things a little differently. First, you need to understand and demonstrate our Core Values with safety being your first priority. That’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list! Do you have a genius-level knowledge of original equipment manufacturer parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds. That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc. 5000 list 15 years in a row and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times. We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for the last four years. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today! Perks Parts Town Pride – check out our virtual tour and culture! Quarterly profit-sharing bonus Hybrid work schedule Team member appreciation events and recognition programs Volunteer opportunities Monthly IT stipend Casual dress code On-demand pay options: Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k/401k match, employee assistance programs and time away – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. The Job at a Glance As a Senior Engineer – Backend (SAP CC) , you will be the master chef in our high-tech kitchen of backend architecture ! You will design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performing backend systems that power our platforms. You’ll work on cloud-native architectures, microservices, and integration strategies while ensuring disaster recovery, monitoring, and performance optimization. This role is all about driving best-in-class backend practices, collaborating across teams, and delivering solutions that keep our systems reliable, efficient, and ready for growth. R ady to turn complex tech into backend brilliance? Let’s get cooking! A Typical Day 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 Support the delivery and maintenance of our Backend Engineering Policies, P rocedures 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 teams To Land This Opportunity You have 5+ years of relevant industry experience and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent. You have extensive ecommerce experience with exp osure and usage of major ecommerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts , etc) You are an expert in backend technologies such as SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL – you know all ins and outs and how to power it through You are advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and methodologies) and utilize industry leading tooling for that (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.io and etc.) You are p roficien t in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others and you have deep understanding of cloud native methodologies You integrate c ontainerization technologies in your day-to-day such as Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), as well as container registries and artifact tools such as Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR You are hands-on with vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic, Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns You speak fluent API! REST, GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles with best practices and tooling such as Pub/Sub, Kafka and others – you are on a roll and ready to jam! You have e xperience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic , etc You have a strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe’s, and other Authz and Authn , you share best practices and tooling with everyone! You’ve got serious coding superpowers in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS , etc You have k nowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc) You’re an all-star communicator and are proficient in English (both written and verbal) You have a quality, high speed internet connection at home About Your Future 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. The salary range for this role is $ 1 1 1,382.34 - 150,314.59 salary which is based on including but not limited to qualifications, experience, and geographical location. Parts Town is a pay for performance-company. In addition to base pay, some roles offer a profit-sharing program, and an annual bonus depending on the role. Our comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) with match, employee assistance programs, paid time off, paid sick time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and professional development opportunities. Parts Town welcomes diversity and as an equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. We are an E-Verify employer. 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