Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elevate Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop and extend backend commerce systems. The role focuses on Magento and Adobe Commerce APIs, integrations, event-driven architecture, cloud services, performance, testing, and production support while serving as a hands-on technical lead and mentor.
Responsibilities
- 7+ years of backend development experience with strong PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2 expertise
- Deep experience building and extending Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers
- Strong experience building REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers that decouple frontend applications from Magento and other backend systems
- Experience integrating with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms
- Strong event-driven architecture / messaging experience, preferably 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
- Ability to build middleware/adapters that can map new commerce services into existing Magento GraphQL/API contracts during a phased migration
- Strong automated testing, CI/CD, code-review, debugging, and production-support experience
- Comfortable serving as a senior hands-on technical lead, mentoring engineers and partnering closely with the Architect on implementation decisions
Skills
- Must be able to work W2 for any employer
- 7+ years of backend development experience with strong PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2 expertise
- Deep experience building and extending Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers
- Strong experience building REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers that decouple frontend applications from Magento and other backend systems
- Experience integrating with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms
- Strong event-driven architecture / messaging experience, preferably 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
- Ability to build middleware/adapters that can map new commerce services into existing Magento GraphQL/API contracts during a phased migration
- Strong automated testing, CI/CD, code-review, debugging, and production-support experience
- Comfortable serving as a senior hands-on technical lead, mentoring engineers and partnering closely with the Architect on implementation decisions
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