Senior Staff Backend Architect, Supply Chain

Wonder; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Discounted meals

Job summary

Wonder is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to set the technical direction for our supply chain systems. This hands-on, backend-heavy IC role will own cross-system architecture across ordering, planning, production, inventory, and fulfillment, partnering with product, design, data, and operations.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural decisions, and create scalable services that integrate with inventory, warehouse, and supplier systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including time at a staff level or equivalent scope.
• Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting, shipping, and operating production services.
• Deep proficiency in at least one JVM language. We primarily use Kotlin.
• Experience owning a technical domain end to end, from data model to production operations.
• Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives through influence rather than authority.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical challenges of any complexity.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and raising the engineering bar of the teams around you.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions with product, design, and operations partners.
• Project management experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing the core services behind ordering, planning, production, inventory, and fulfillment.
• Leading development efforts across several technical areas at once, and supporting the teams that contribute to them.
• Creating cross‑system technical designs that balance operational requirements with technical quality.
• Defining the event models, service boundaries, and data contracts that other teams build against.
• Building scalable services that integrate with inventory, warehouse, and third‑party supplier systems.
• Establishing patterns and practices for robust error handling and sytem resilience.
• Mentoring senior and staff engineers, and setting the bar in code reviews and architectural decisions.
• Driving design reviews and postmortems toward systemic fixes rather than symptomatic ones.
• Developing solutions that optimize network throughput, inventory accuracy, and cost.

Skills

Kotlin

System design

Mentoring

Leadership

Backend engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Production operations

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

gRPC

Event sourcing

CQRS

Kotlin/JVM

Job description

Wonder is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to set the technical direction for our supply chain systems. This hands-on, backend-heavy IC role will own cross-system architecture across ordering, planning, production, inventory, and fulfillment, partnering with product, design, data, and operations.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural decisions, and create scalable services that integrate with inventory, warehouse, and supplier systems.