Sr. Backend Developer - e-commerce New Remote (United States)

Nutrafol; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work experience

Medical, dental, vision package

401K with employer match

Quarterly Bonus Program

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Learning & development stipend

Job summary

Nutrafol is seeking a Senior Backend Developer with deep Magento / Adobe Commerce expertise and practical experience using AI to automate engineering and business processes. The role focuses on backend development, APIs, third‑party integrations, and automation, with responsibilities also supporting Shopify.

You will report to the VP, Software Engineering in a remote United States role. Key tasks include owning backend development, building APIs and integrations, and implementing AI-powered

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce experience with PHP.
• Experience building REST and GraphQL integrations and webhooks.
• Practical AI tooling: design prompts, structured outputs, and integrate AI into apps.
• Scripting for workflows in Python/Node.js/PHP.
• Experience with Shopify app development and Liquid customizations.
• CI/CD concepts and magento-cloud familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Own backend development from design through release for Magento / Adobe Commerce modules.
• Build GraphQL capabilities for headless experiences and integrate systems via REST/GraphQL.
• Automate processes using AI tools, with validation, logging, and human review.
• Improve unit tests and testing workflows; support AI-assisted development thoughtfully.
• Support Shopify integrations, apps, webhook handlers, and data processing scripts.
• Contribute to engineering practices, code reviews, and release coordination.

Skills

Magento / Adobe Commerce

PHP

GraphQL

REST APIs

AI-powered automation

Shopify

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Magento Cloud CLI

Liquid (Shopify)

Python/Node.js

PHP Unit Testing (PHPUnit)

Job description

We’re a growing company. Everything we do, we do to help people grow into the best version of themselves. As the pioneers of hair wellness, we create clinically tested products for hair growth and provide support for people at every step of their hair journey.

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About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep Magento / Adobe Commerce expertise and practical experience using AI to automate engineering and business processes.

This role focuses on backend development, APIs, third‑party integrations, and automation, with additional responsibilities supporting Shopify. You will collaborate with frontend developers, QA, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver new capabilities and improve platform performance and reliability.

Beyond using AI to assist with coding, you should be comfortable identifying manual processes and building AI‑powered workflows that connect existing tools and systems. We are looking for someone who can apply AI to practical problems, evaluate the quality of its output, and turn useful ideas into reliable automations.

You will report to our VP, Software Engineering and this position is a remote role based in the United States.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own backend development from design through release: Develop and maintain custom Magento / Adobe Commerce modules, troubleshoot complex issues, and deliver reliable, maintainable solutions that follow platform best practices.
• Build APIs and integrations: Develop GraphQL capabilities for headless experiences and connect internal and external systems using REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, and asynchronous processing.
• Automate processes using AI: Identify repetitive engineering and business tasks and implement practical solutions using AI tools, model APIs, scripts, and workflow automation. Connect these solutions to existing systems and include appropriate validation, error handling, logging, and human review.
• Improve testing and development workflows: Write and maintain unit tests, use AI‑assisted development tools thoughtfully, and help incorporate automated testing and quality checks into build and release pipelines.
• Support Shopify development and operational automation: Build and maintain Shopify integrations, apps, webhook handlers, and Liquid customizations. Create scripts and utilities for data processing, migrations, troubleshooting, and recurring operational tasks.
• Contribute to engineering practices and delivery: Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, environment management, and deployments. Share knowledge, support other developers, and collaborate with frontend and QA teams throughout implementation and testing.

Required Qualifications:

• Magento / Adobe Commerce: 5+ years of strong hands‑on experience with Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce and PHP, including custom module development and a deep understanding of plugins, observers, dependency injection, service contracts, EAV, and the application lifecycle. Ability to extend platform functionality without modifying core code.
• GraphQL: Experience creating and extending `schema.graphqls` definitions and implementing custom resolvers, with attention to authorization, error handling, data loading, and performance.
• Third‑party integrations: Experience building and maintaining REST and GraphQL integrations and webhook consumers. Familiarity with authentication, retries, idempotency, rate limits, queueing, logging, and recovery from integration failures.
• AI‑powered process automation: Practical experience using AI tools or large language model APIs to automate workflows—not only generate code. Ability to design prompts, work with structured outputs, integrate AI into existing applications, and validate results. Awareness of data privacy, cost, reliability, and when traditional rules‑based automation is more appropriate.
• Scripting and automation: Ability to build scripts and utilities using Python, Node.js, PHP, or similar tools to support operational workflows, data processing, and integrations.
• Unit testing: Experience writing meaningful, maintainable unit tests, preferably with PHPUnit. Ability to isolate dependencies, use mocks appropriately, and cover business logic, edge cases, and failure scenarios. Ability to review and validate AI-generated tests rather than relying on them without verification.
• Shopify: Working knowledge of Liquid, the Shopify Admin and Storefront APIs, app development, and webhooks.
• Adobe Commerce Cloud and CI/CD: Experience with Adobe Commerce Cloud environments and the `magento-cloud` CLI, along with an understanding of environment configuration, deployment workflows, and basic CI/CD practices.
• Git and collaboration: Strong understanding of branching, pull requests, code reviews, merge conflict resolution, and release coordination. Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, work independently, and collaborate across teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building AI agents or multi‑step AI workflows that interact with external tools and APIs, with appropriate permissions and approval steps.
• Experience moving AI automation prototypes into production and measuring their accuracy, reliability, cost, and time savings.
• Experience integrating automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, including test reporting and preventing releases when required checks fail.
• Experience diagnosing backend performance issues involving database queries, caching, GraphQL resolvers, or asynchronous processing.

What Success Looks Like:

You deliver dependable backend functionality, build integrations that handle failures predictably, and make the codebase easier to maintain. You strengthen automated testing and release confidence while introducing practical AI‑powered automations that reduce manual work. You take ownership from identifying a problem through implementation, validation, and ongoing improvement.

Interview Process:

• Talent Acquisition Interview
• Team Interview
• Finalist Interview
• Offer

Nutrafol takes into consideration a wide range of factors in final compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. The listed range is applicable only to the annual base salary and does not include additional perks, benefits, or applicable bonus eligibility comprising the total compensation package.

Salary Range:

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

• Fully remote work experience
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision package, including FSA program
• 401K with employer match
• Quarterly Bonus Program
• Flexible PTO
• Two company-wide wellness breaks every day
• Free lunch on us every Tuesday and Thursday via Seamless/Grubhub
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Monthly internet stipend
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Annual learning & development stipend
• Free meditation app membership (Headspace)
• Free Nutrafol subscription
• Pet insurance discounts and benefits

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As set forth in Nutrafol’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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