Remote Senior Software Engineer – E‑Commerce Orchestration

Crate and Barrel; Northbrook (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Crate and Barrel is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in e-Commerce Fulfillment to develop the next-generation orchestration layer. This fully remote role emphasizes building reliable, real-time solutions throughout our supply chain e-Commerce ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience and solid expertise in backend development, microservices, and asynchronous event patterns, ideally utilizing message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams and mentor other engineers, ensuring a robust software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant backend applications.
• Hands-on mastery of asynchronous event patterns and message queue architectures.
• Deep understanding of distributed transactions and eventual consistency.

Responsibilities

• Modernize legacy backend data flows into scalable microservices.
• Embed advanced distributed tracing and real-time telemetry.
• Own the design and delivery of high-volume data streams.
• Design resilient distributed coordination patterns.
• Perform thorough code reviews for code quality.
• Identify complex technical issues and resolve them.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions.
• Drive the creation of high-quality documentation.

Skills

Software design and architectural patterns

Agile software development methodologies

Problem-solving

Communication and collaboration

Mentorship skills

Proficiency in relevant programming languages

Experience with scalable software solutions

Software testing strategies

Familiarity with cloud platforms

Database design and performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Crate and Barrel is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in e-Commerce Fulfillment to develop the next-generation orchestration layer. This fully remote role emphasizes building reliable, real-time solutions throughout our supply chain e-Commerce ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience and solid expertise in backend development, microservices, and asynchronous event patterns, ideally utilizing message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams and mentor other engineers, ensuring a robust software development lifecycle.