Senior Software Engineer Central Europe

Join a globally recognized retail and E-commerce organization that serves millions of customers through modern digital commerce platforms and omnichannel experiences. The client is a long-established retail leader known for investing heavily in technology, customer experience, and engineering excellence.

You will become part of the Purchase History & Digital Returns domain - a high-impact platform responsible for powering post-purchase customer experiences, digital returns, order visibility, and internal commerce APIs used across multiple business-critical systems.

This is an opportunity to work on distributed systems at scale, building cloud-native services and event-driven architectures that directly impact customer experience and operational efficiency.

The engineering culture emphasizes ownership, innovation, automation, and continuous improvement. Teams work collaboratively across product, platform, and engineering functions in a modern Agile environment. Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Back End services and APIs supporting post-purchase and digital returns workflows
• Collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams and stakeholders across multiple domains
• Build and enhance event-driven microservices architectures
• Develop clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design sessions, and code reviews
• Mentor and support junior engineers within the team
• Troubleshoot production and performance issues across cloud-native systems
• Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence initiatives
• Ensure high engineering standards around quality, security, testing, and reliability
• Create and maintain technical documentation and implementation designs

• Strong Back End engineering experience with Java (Spring Boot)
• Experience designing and building microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development and containerized environments
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Terraform
• Practical experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud platforms
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows (GitHub/GitLab)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic and Splunk
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently in fast-paced Agile environments
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills