Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. System Soft Technologies provides enterprise-wide IT solutions and supports clients as an extension of their IT teams. The Lead Backend Engineer will build and extend Magento APIs, backend services, integrations, and event-driven systems while supporting cloud-native infrastructure, performance optimization, testing, CI/CD, and production operations. The role also serves as a senior technical lead who mentors engineers and partners with the Architect on implementation decisions.
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
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