Hiring For "Senior Backend Engineer" Remote

Hi,

Role: Senior Backend Engineer - Adobe Commerce/Magento 2

Location: Remote

Duration: FTE

Prioritize candidates with 6+ years of backend development experience, strong PHP/Magento 2 expertise, and hands-on REST/GraphQL, event-driven messaging, AWS, and Magento performance experience. Screen for senior technical leadership, mentoring, automated testing, CI/CD, and production-support experience

Overview / Summary:

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer with 6+ years of backend development experience and strong expertise in PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2. This role requires hands-on experience with Magento APIs, GraphQL, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native services, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD, and production support. The engineer will also mentor team members and partner closely with the Architect on implementation decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and extend Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers.
• Build REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers that decouple frontend applications from Magento and other backend systems.
• Integrate with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms.
• Implement and support event-driven architecture and messaging using RabbitMQ or similar asynchronous messaging platforms.
• Work with AWS/cloud-native services, caching, databases, queues, observability, and distributed-system troubleshooting.
• Address Magento performance considerations, including indexing, database load, caching, asynchronous processing, and high-volume catalog/order workloads.
• Build middleware/adapters that map new commerce services into existing Magento GraphQL/API contracts during a phased migration.
• Perform automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, debugging, and production support.
• Serve as a senior hands-on technical lead and mentor engineers.
• Partner closely with the Architect on implementation decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2 expertise.
• Deep experience with Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers.
• Strong experience building REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers.
• Experience integrating with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms.
• Strong event-driven architecture and messaging experience, preferably with RabbitMQ or similar asynchronous messaging platforms.
• Experience with AWS/cloud-native services, caching, databases, queues, observability, and distributed-system troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of Magento performance, including indexing, database load, caching, asynchronous processing, and high-volume catalog/order workloads.
• Experience building middleware/adapters for phased commerce migrations.
• Strong automated testing, CI/CD, code-review, debugging, and production-support experience.
• Ability to work as a senior hands-on technical lead, mentor engineers, and partner with an Architect.

In compliance with the salary transparency law, the expected salary range for this role is $120k -125k/Annum. Actual compensation depends on experience and interview evaluation

Best Regards,

Kripali Sahu

Technical Recruiter | Empower Professionals

| Mobile: | Phone: x 332

.......................................................................................................................................................

100 Franklin Square Drive 4^th Floor | Somerset, NJ 08873

| Fax:

Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)

Empower Professionals firmly opposes e-mail "spamming". We apologize to those who do not wish to receive this e-mail and also to those who have accidentally received it again. Please reply with REMOVE in the subject listing, with all aliases email addresses that you would want removed and any inconvenience caused is highly regretted. We appreciate your patience and cooperation. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email, and/or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful