Our client is a leading U.S. fashion retailer, offering apparel, footwear, beauty, and home goods. It operates 350+ stores and robust online platforms, combining in-store and digital experiences.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will guide the evolution, architecture, and delivery of backend systems that enable seamless content onboarding, management, and distribution across digital platforms.

You'll collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing systems in a cloud-native environment.

• Produce well-designed, testable, maintainable code following industry best practices

• Lead planning, forecasting, and execution for new feature development and enhancements

• Design and build scalable APIs and backend services

• Ensure software quality, reliability, and availability through monitoring and alerting best practices

• Debug and resolve complex production issues

• Own and operate business-critical systems serving internal and external customers

• Mentor and support junior engineers in their growth

• Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical solutions with business goals

• Participate in on-call rotation (1 week every 6-8 weeks; response time within 5 minutes)

• Provide rare weekend/holiday coverage when required

• Strong Node.js expertise

• AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) skills required

• Strong JavaScript fundamentals

• Experience designing and building APIs

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, Redis, DynamoDB)

• Experience building and deploying cloud-based systems

• Experience owning and operating production systems

• TypeScript (familiarity - nice to have)

• Java experience

• Kubernetes experience

• Elasticsearch knowledge

• PHP (nice to have)