Staff Software Engineer: Golang and PHP Development / 4 hours ago
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architectural guidance. You will influence at the organizational level through clarity, expertise, and deep problem-solving, helping squads build systems aligned with our long-term modular platform strategy. Main Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design: * Own key architectural decisions within one or several domains, ensuring alignment with Ankorstore's tech vision. * Translate the long-term architecture strategy into practical designs that squads can execute. * Drive the adoption of modular, API-first, event-driven, and data-centric design patterns. * Participate in design reviews and challenge proposals with constructive, high-level technical judgment. Execution & Delivery: * Contribute hands-on to complex technical components, refactors, and mission-critical projects. * Debug and resolve systemic issues across services, infrastructure, and data flows. * Champion performance, scalability, and reliability across squads. Technical Leadership & Alignment: * Coach Senior
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Engineers and elevate their architectural thinking. * Promote best engineering practices, raising the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and documentation. * Partner with Product, Data, and Platform leaders to build coherent solutions. * Ensure technical solutions directly support our brand-first OS strategy and services expansion. Innovation & Continuous Improvement: * Explore technologies (AI integration, event-driven workflows, platformization trends) and push prototypes that create leverage. * Identify long-term opportunities to improve foundations and reduce complexity. Tech Stack Highlights: * Back-end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang * Front-end: Vue 2/3, Nuxt 3/4, Typescript, Vuex / Pinia, sass, postcss, Vite Storybook, Chromatic, Tailwind * QA: Vitest, Jest, Cypress * Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, MySQL, Redis * Tools: Github, CircleCI, Sentry, Notion, Graphana, Docker, Jira, Figma Preferred Experience: * 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in Staff+, Tech Lead, or equivalent senior Individual Contributor roles. * Proven ability to design, evolve, and scale complex distributed systems. * Experience driving architectural initiatives inside fast-paced product organizations. * Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and domain modeling. * Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of Ankorstore's core backend languages (PHP, Golang). * Demonstrated influence across multiple teams without formal authority. * Excellent communication skills-able to simplify and explain architecture to technical and non-technical audiences. * Comfortable working in English. Location & Benefits: This is a full remote contract position based in Spain. Ankorstore offers a versatile range of benefits to support employee well-being and work-life balance: * Health Insurance & Life Insurance (SideCare). * Meal vouchers (Swile). * Access to Leeto platform for exclusive discounts