Staff Engineer - Golang​/PHP

About Us

Launched in 2019 by four co‑founders with expertise in retail and marketplaces, Ankorstore is Europe's leading B2B platform that connects brands with independent retailers. It is built on the conviction that local retailers are vital to vibrant town centres. While evolving consumer habits and mass‑retail dominance pose challenges, Ankorstore offers a global, technology‑driven solution enabling retailers to diversify product lines and benefit from competitive commercial terms.

Brands gain a strong network and efficient tools to expand reach and boost activity. By empowering retailers to compete with large players, Ankorstore aims to transform long‑term collaboration between brands and retailers.

As a Staff Engineer you will be one of the most senior technical contributors at Ankorstore, driving architectural thinking at the squad level while contributing directly to key initiatives. You will report directly to the VP Product & Tech and act as a technical partner to leadership, an embedded expert in squads, and a multiplier for the entire engineering organization.

• Architecture & System Design
  • Own key architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with the company’s tech vision.
  • Translate the long‑term architecture strategy into practical designs for squad execution.
  • Drive adoption of modular, API‑first, event‑driven, and data‑centric design patterns.
  • Participate in design reviews and challenge proposals with constructive, high‑level technical judgment.
• Execution & Delivery
  • Contribute hands‑on to complex technical components, refactors, and mission‑critical projects.
  • Debug and resolve systemic issues across services, infrastructure, and data flows.
  • Champion performance, scalability, and reliability across squads.
• Technical Leadership
  • Coach senior engineers and elevate their architectural thinking.
  • Promote best engineering practices, raising the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and documentation.
• Cross‑Functional Alignment
  • Partner with Product, Data, and Platform leaders to build coherent solutions.
  • Ensure technical solutions directly support the brand‑first OS strategy and services expansion.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
  • Explore technologies (AI integration, event‑driven workflows, platformization trends) and push prototypes that create leverage.
  • Identify long‑term opportunities to improve foundations and reduce complexity.

• Back‑end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang
• Front‑end:
  Vue 2/3, Nuxt 3/4, Type Script, Vuex/Pinia, Sass, PostCSS, Vite Storybook, Chromatic, Tailwind
• QA:
  Vitest, Jest, Cypress
• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, MySQL, Redis
• Tools:
  Git Hub, Circle
  
  CI, Sentry, Notion, Grafana, Docker, Jira, Figma
• Information Architecture: MCP and agent home‑made

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in Staff+, Tech Lead, or equivalent senior IC roles.
• Proven ability to design, evolve, and scale complex distributed systems.
• Experience driving architectural initiatives in fast‑paced product organisations.
• Experience with microservices, event‑driven architectures, and domain modeling.
• Strong hands‑on proficiency in one or more of Ankorstore’s core back‑end languages (PHP, Golang).
• Demonstrated influence across multiple teams without formal authority.
• Excellent communication skills—able to simplify and explain architecture to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Comfortable working in English.

Germany (remote‑friendly). You will have a full remote contract in Spain.

• Health and life insurance coverage (Mutuelle and Prévoyance via Side Care).
• Meal vouchers via Swile.
• Access to Leeto for exclusive discounts, cultural activities, holiday vouchers, and more.
• Paid leave and RTT.
• Modern offices in Paris (Opéra) for a vibrant work environment.
• Learning platform:
  Sana Labs, offering customised training experiences and skills development.

• Company website, Linked In, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube, Welcome to the Jungle.
• Media coverage: "How to Build a 2 billion Unicorn in Under 3 Years", Rewild Retail, "Ankorstore Is Shaping the Shopping of the Future", "Mary Portas & Ankorstore".

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.