Software Engineer, Backend Developer

ABOUT THE BRAND:

Callaway Golf Company is a premium golf equipment, gear and apparel company with a portfolio of global brands, including Callaway Golf, Odyssey, Travis Mathew, and OGIO. Through an unwavering commitment to innovation and premium craftsmanship, Callaway designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance golf clubs, golf balls, apparel, bags, and other accessories—setting the standard for performance in the game of golf.

Our Mission:  To create demonstrably superior and pleasingly different products powered by innovative technology and premium craftsmanship enabling golfers of all abilities to play their best and find more joy in the game. Our company is a blend of experience and diverse backgrounds, and together we look to leave the past behind while moving the game forward. For more information, please visit ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Software Engineer is accountable for the following responsibilities:

Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, workflows, integrations, and APIs supporting commerce applications.

Develop services primarily using C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, and Type Script/Node.js based on platform and business needs.

Apply object-oriented design and established software engineering principles to create maintainable, scalable, and testable systems.

Build services supporting order management, inventory, payments, tax, loyalty, customer identity, product data, and related commerce capabilities.

Extend and integrate modular headless commerce platforms such as Medusa, and design middleware and backend-for-frontend layers connecting storefronts, commerce engines, and downstream services.

Define clear API contracts using REST, OpenAPI, and related tools so frontend and backend teams can develop independently.

Integrate payment and tax platforms, including transaction flows for authorization, capture, refund, void, tokenization, idempotency, reconciliation, checkout, orders, and returns.

Build reliable integrations and data pipelines between commerce systems and enterprise platforms such as SAP and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

Work with product, pricing, catalog, customer, order, and inventory data at scale while protecting data integrity.

Participate in platform and service migrations, including field mapping, validation, idempotent processing, reconciliation, cutover planning, and rollback preparation.

Design relational database schemas, develop migrations, and troubleshoot query and application performance.

Build automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests.

Deploy and operate services using containers, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, primarily within Microsoft Azure.

Troubleshoot production issues across application, API, database, integration, and infrastructure boundaries, and contribute to incident response and root-cause analysis.

Reduce unnecessary complexity and repetitive work by improving architecture, documentation, tooling, guardrails, and automation.

Partner with frontend engineers, product teams, business stakeholders, enterprise technology teams, and external vendors to define requirements, communicate trade-offs, and deliver integrated solutions.

AI-FIRST ENGINEERING EXPECTATIONS Use AI agents to analyze unfamiliar codebases, legacy systems, APIs, schemas, logs, and technical documentation before implementation begins.

Use AI during design and planning to explore architecture options, identify risks, challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and develop implementation plans with dependencies, sequencing, testing, migration, acceptance criteria, and rollback considerations.

Break complex initiatives into clearly scoped tasks and use coding agents for meaningful implementation work, including multi-file changes,…