Staff Engineer

The Opportunity:

As the Staff Engineer for the Connect team, you’ll work on challenging technical problems of an ambitious product. The team is building an advanced and exciting and comprehensive solution providing: a marketplace with curated set of pre-built, ct-certified Integrations, created in partnership with our community, that provide out-of-the-box connections between products and a run-time environment for those integrations, managed by commercetools as part of our infrastructure and provided as a paid service to our customers. Tech stack includes but is not limited to NodeJS, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run and Google Pub/Sub.

Your Mission:

• Ensure that commercetools’ Connect services are optimised for throughput and scalability
• Guide and collaborate with Connect’s engineering team to build a robust, scalable solution to successfully address Connect’s use case scenarios.
• Understand the challenges of our partners and customers around building and deploying integrations for CoCo.
• Suggest innovative solutions for technical problems for Connect.
• Drive the technical vision for Connect’s services alongside and in alignment with our Principal Engineer.

What you need to succeed:

• A solid technical background and a proven track record in Software Engineering roles (7+ years).
• Proven proficiency in Javascript, TypeScript for enterprise applications.
• Experience working with microservices-based architectures in a leadership role with diverse teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes and GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub). Knowledge of other cloud solutions is also highly desirable.
• Experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions from the ground up. Including infrastructure provisioning through Terraform.
• Ability to analyze complex technical problems and to drive improvements.
• Experience working in an Agile environment for a geographically distributed team.
• Ability to lead by example with a strong focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration.
• Setting up and facilitating training and onboarding sessions.
• You are highly self-aware.
• You have a very strong sense of technical ownership while continuously work on improving knowledge sharing, delegation and empowerment for team members.
• You believe in continuous learning and you are interested in leadership, new technologies and best practices.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Fluent English to work in an international environment.