Senior Backend Software Engineer
We are the platform turning browsing into shopping . We connect 200 million shoppers with deals they love while boosting local sales for hundreds of top retailers and brands.
We help consumers save time and money while making smart shopping decisions, and we support retailers and brands in engaging customers from online research to in-store purchases.
In 2024, Shopfully joined forces with the North American company Flipp, creating a global leader in the sector. Together, we reach 400 million households and serve over 1,000 top retailers and brands across 27 markets, including Europe, Canada, the USA, Latin America, and Australia.
Ready to spark your growth with us?
WHO WE LOOK FOR 🦄
Every day, millions of users rely on the Flipp app to discover deals, save money, and make smarter shopping decisions.
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer , you will join a cross-functional team responsible for the backend systems that power our iOS and Android applications , ensuring they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
In this role, you will own backend services end to end, contribute to the design of large-scale systems, and help guide technical decisions within the team.
You will act as a technical leader by influence , mentoring other engineers and raising the overall engineering bar through design, code quality, and collaboration.
You will work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineering teams in a collaborative, international environment.
WHAT YOU WILL DO 🏄
Your responsibilities span system design, backend development, testing, and technical leadership, with a strong focus on supporting and evolving the distributed backend systems for Flipp and Shopfully’s mobile applications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, and evolve scalable, secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems, within an event-driven microservices architecture
- Own and advance backend service architecture with a platform mindset, creating reusable services, APIs, and shared components that enable internal developer community
- Translate product requirements into clear, well-designed technical solutions, collaborating closely with Product, Design, Quality and Data
- Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from technical design, estimations, implementation, testing, deployment to production support
- Write clean, robust, and well-tested code, applying SOLID principles, proven design patterns, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices while actively reducing technical debt
- Act as a senior technical leader, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring through code reviews, and serving as a point of reference during production incidents
- Integrate AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow and help the team adopt effective practices — treating AI tooling as a core part of engineering productivity, not an experiment.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED 🪄
- 7+ years of backend or full-stack development experience designing and building scalable, reliable backend systems .
- Proven experience with AWS services (eg: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, etc.).
- Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases; Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging (e.g., Kafka, SQS/SNS).
- Strong system design expertise with hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting production systems.
- Software engineering practices:
- Strong grasp of clean-code principles and backend design patterns.
- Experience writing and maintaining automated unit and integration tests.
- Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and enforcing testable coding practices.
- Proficient with Gitand modern collaboration workflows.
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in software workflows, with the ability to articulate benefits, limitations, and lessons learned.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and support production systems.
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