Senior Principal Backend Engineer — GraphQL & Shopify, Remote

Shutterfly; Tempe (AZ); À distance; USD 150 000 - 225 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus opportunities

Health benefits

401(k)

Remote-friendly

Résumé du poste

Spoonflower, part of the Shutterfly family, is evolving its eCommerce backend and seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own core services, APIs, and GraphQL federation. You will drive architecture, scale Shopify integrations, and coordinate cross‑team efforts to align with a print‑on‑demand model.

You will mentor engineers, set standards, and influence roadmap decisions while delivering high‑impact, reliable backend platforms for a global, made‑to‑order retail environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems and APIs at scale.
• Deep proficiency in GraphQL design and implementation, including federated/supergraph architectures.
• Experience with Shopify or similar eCommerce platforms.
• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript.
• Track record of diagnosing hard production failures down to the runtime or transport level, not just restarting services.
• Demonstrated ownership of systems in production (performance, uptime, reliability).
• Ability to operate independently and drive ambiguous, high‑impact work to completion.
• Strong communication skills around tradeoffs and system design decisions.

Responsabilités

• Own the design and evolution of core backend services and APIs supporting commerce workflows.
• Lead architecture and implementation of GraphQL services on our Apollo Federation supergraph.
• Build and improve Shopify integrations (Storefront API, Admin API, webhooks, order lifecycle) as part of a cross‑team effort.
• Reconcile Shopify's inventory‑and‑SKU commerce model with our made‑to‑order, print‑on‑demand fulfillment flow, where the order lifecycle is the hard problem.
• Define and improve service boundaries, data models, and integration points across systems.
• Partner with frontend, product, and platform teams to simplify how teams build and integrate.
• Diagnose and resolve deep distributed‑systems and runtime‑level failures, including federation transport behavior, connection‑pool issues, and event‑loop performance under load.
• Own production systems, including operability, observability, and incident response.
• Act as a technical reference point through design reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards.
• Influence roadmap decisions by providing clear tradeoffs grounded in business and system impact.

Connaissances

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

GraphQL

Shopify

Node.js

TypeScript

Production ownership

Independent ownership

Communication

Outils

Apollo Federation

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenSearch

AWS (SNS/SQS)

Next.js

React

Description du poste

Spoonflower, part of the Shutterfly family, is evolving its eCommerce backend and seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own core services, APIs, and GraphQL federation. You will drive architecture, scale Shopify integrations, and coordinate cross‑team efforts to align with a print‑on‑demand model.

You will mentor engineers, set standards, and influence roadmap decisions while delivering high‑impact, reliable backend platforms for a global, made‑to‑order retail environment.