Staff Engineer-Back-End

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We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Digital Engineering team and drive the technical direction of our global, multi‑brand digital ecosystem. This role is focused on headless backend engineering, with deep expertise in e-commerce platforms, event‑driven architectures, Azure cloud‑native solutions, and generative AI integrations.

As a Staff Engineer, you will shape how we design, scale, and operate domain‑driven, event‑based platforms built on Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js microservices. You will set the technical standard across Kubernetes (AKS), Istio, KEDA, multi‑region deployments, and automation‑first practices. Your leadership will ensure our services are secure, resilient, performant, and seamlessly integrated with external systems.

• Architect and evolve Java and Node.js‑based event‑driven microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring scalability, resiliency, and observability.
• Apply domain‑driven design (DDD) principles to model core domain capabilities with clean service boundaries.
• Design and implement integration patterns (synchronous APIs, async messaging, event streams, pub/sub) across internal and external systems.
• Abstract external system interfaces (POS, payments, loyalty, fulfillment, etc.) from our domain services to ensure maintainability and vendor flexibility.
• Drive adoption of blue/green and canary deployment strategies for zero‑downtime releases.
• Architect multi‑region deployments with active‑active or active‑passive failover for global resiliency.
• Define and optimize edge caching strategies using Cloudflare (preferred) or other modern CDNs/reverse proxies.
• Lead adoption of customer identity management solutions, leveraging Auth0 and/or Azure AD B2C with best practices for security and compliance.
• Apply GenAI capabilities (LLMs, embeddings, prompt orchestration) to backend services, including customer personalization, search, knowledge retrieval, and operations automation.

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership for CI/CD automation using Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions.
• Establish standards for integration automation testing across Java and Node.js microservices and APIs, with automated gates in pipelines.
• Champion automation‑first practices: infrastructure as code (Terraform/Bicep), automated testing, performance validation, and observability.
• Decompose complex initiatives into actionable deliverables across geo‑distributed agile teams.

• Partner with architects, engineering managers, and product leaders to align on technical direction, roadmap, and release strategies.
• Facilitate DDD workshops, design reviews, and integration architecture sessions across teams.
• Influence technical decision‑making across geo‑distributed agile teams, ensuring both velocity and platform health.
• Partner with product and data teams to identify GenAI use cases and integrate them into core digital services.

• Mentor engineers in DDD, integration patterns, Kubernetes, Istio, KEDA, automation best practices, and microservice design in Java and Node.js.
• Promote a culture of quality‑first, automation‑first engineering.
• Enable teams to design resilient services that abstract vendor dependencies and scale globally.

• 4 Year Degree and/or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related fields, 10+ years in backend software engineering
• 3+ years in a Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer role

• Proven track record delivering enterprise‑scale e‑commerce platforms with high availability and resiliency.
• Strong, hands‑on expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js microservices.
• Deep expertise in Azure Cloud Services: AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, App Gateway, Front Door, and related services.
• Hands‑on production experience with:
• Kubernetes (AKS) for container orchestration.
• Istio for service mesh traffic management, observability, and mTLS.
• KEDA for event‑driven autoscaling.
• Strong experience in:
• Domain‑driven design (DDD).
• Integration patterns for APIs, messaging, and events.
• Abstracting external system interfaces…