Senior Shopify Backend Engineer - Payments (Remote)

Higlobe; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-Time Position

Salary: $4,000 USD

100% Remote work environment

Contract: Independent Contractor

Job summary

Higlobe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical Shopify-based backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across 1,200 university bookstores. You will own the end-to-end charge flow, reconciliation triage, scheduled jobs, and Azure deployments, with a strong emphasis on production ownership and rigorous testing.

The role requires 5+ years in Shopify and PHP, 3+ years in Laravel, and deep experience with asynchronous systems, SQL Server, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Shopify and PHP experience, including at least 3 years of Laravel in production.
• Experience with asynchronous systems: idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, locks, and scheduled jobs.
• Strong SQL skills at the query-plan level, preferably with SQL Server.
• Solid cloud experience, ideally with Azure, including reading logs, running queries, monitoring metrics, and supporting deployments.
• Experience integrating with complex external systems and APIs, including SOAP, XML, SFTP.
• Strong judgment when working with financial transactions, including knowing when not to execute a transaction and using dry runs when appropriate.
• Strong testing practices and experience treating automated tests as part of the development process.
• Ability to take ownership of production systems and troubleshoot issues independently.

Responsibilities

• Own the charge pipeline end-to-end, including coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment, and mixed tender payments.
• Diagnose production orders across five services and identify the service responsible for each issue.
• Perform daily triage of reconciliation reports and route failures to the appropriate team.
• Own scheduled jobs, sweeps, and recovery commands that run unattended.
• Manage delivery end-to-end, including branching, PRs, QA promotion, GitHub Actions deployments to Azure, and QA steps.
• Create a regression test for every bug fix.

Skills

Shopify

PHP

Laravel

Asynchronous systems

SQL (SQL Server)

Azure

API integrations

Testing practices

Production ownership

Troubleshooting

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure

SOAP/XML/SFTP

Job description

Higlobe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical Shopify-based backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across 1,200 university bookstores. You will own the end-to-end charge flow, reconciliation triage, scheduled jobs, and Azure deployments, with a strong emphasis on production ownership and rigorous testing.

The role requires 5+ years in Shopify and PHP, 3+ years in Laravel, and deep experience with asynchronous systems, SQL Server, and