Staff Fullstack Engineer, Retail

• Provide technical direction across two engineering teams and connected domains
• Design scalable distributed solutions across frontend and backend
• Facilitate architectural decisions and make data-driven trade-offs involving performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost
• Identify risks extending beyond an individual team
• Remain hands-on across frontend and backend
• Shape customer-facing experiences with React and scalable backend capabilities with Java
• Influence solutions from discovery and system design through implementation and production
• Establish foundations for future native iOS and Android checkout experiences
• Drive adoption of architecture, performance, security, testing, observability, and reliability practices
• Create reusable patterns, guidelines, and platform capabilities for recurring technical challenges
• Align Checkout, Payments, Orders, Shipping, and dependent teams
• Mentor engineers and facilitate architecture and design discussions
• Partner with Product, UX, and engineering leadership on technical strategy
• Use data, metrics, and industry trends to evaluate trade-offs and prioritize high-impact investments

• Deep, hands-on frontend engineering expertise with React and TypeScript
• Professional backend development experience in at least one language or framework, such as Node.js, Java, or Python
• Comfortable working across the stack and contributing to production backend services and APIs
• Staff/Principal-level experience or equivalent technical scope
• Experience designing complex systems and driving architectural decisions affecting multiple teams or domains
• Experience leading through influence and growing other engineers
• Ability to mentor experienced engineers and facilitate architecture and design discussions
• Ability to introduce engineering standards and enable teams to make high-quality technical decisions independently
• Strong technical depth with business and product judgment
• Ability to work effectively with Product, UX, Security, SRE, and engineering stakeholders
• Ability to use metrics and evidence to guide decisions
• Experience with checkout, payments, orders, e-commerce, or marketplace systems is a strong plus
• Exposure to native Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift development would be valuable

• Urban Sports Club membership (M) package
• Work-from-home arrangement, including up to 20 days per year anywhere in the EU
• Fully costed Deutschland Ticket
• Various internal and external training opportunities
• 30 days paid vacation per annum plus another day on Rosenmontag
• Option to take up to 10 days of unpaid vacation after one year of employment
• 10% employee discount on over-the-counter, beauty and personal care products in the online store
• 20% discount on nu3 products