Senior Principal Backend Engineer: GraphQL & Shopify

Shutterfly, Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 160.000 - 226.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Bonus incentive

Health benefits

401K program

Other employee perks

Descripción de la vacante

Spoonflower, part of the Shutterfly family, seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to design and evolve core backend services powering our commerce experience. You will own GraphQL federation, Shopify integrations, and service boundaries across cross-functional teams.

You will diagnose complex distributed systems issues, mentor engineers, and influence roadmap decisions. Remote-friendly, with state residency requirements.

Formación

• 8+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems and APIs at scale.
• Deep proficiency in GraphQL design and federation architectures.
• Experience with Shopify or similar eCommerce platforms.
• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Track record of diagnosing production failures to runtime/transport level.
• Ownership of systems in production: performance, uptime, reliability.

Responsabilidades

• Own the design and evolution of core backend services and APIs supporting commerce workflows.
• Lead architecture and implementation of GraphQL services on Apollo Federation supergraph.
• Build and improve Shopify integrations as part of cross-team effort.
• Reconcile Shopify inventory/SKU model with made-to-order fulfillment flow.
• Define and improve service boundaries, data models, and integration points.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and platform teams to simplify development and integration.
• Diagnose deep distributed-systems and runtime failures; improve operability and incident response.
• Serve as a technical reference through design reviews and mentoring.

Conocimientos

Backend architecture

GraphQL design

Shopify integration

Node.js/TypeScript

Distributed systems

Production ownership

Strong communication

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenSearch

Descripción del empleo

Spoonflower, part of the Shutterfly family, seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to design and evolve core backend services powering our commerce experience. You will own GraphQL federation, Shopify integrations, and service boundaries across cross-functional teams.

You will diagnose complex distributed systems issues, mentor engineers, and influence roadmap decisions. Remote-friendly, with state residency requirements.