Senior Software Engineer - AI & SAP Commerce

Role : Senior Software Engineer - AI, SAP Commerce & Durable Orchestration Location : U.S. Remote (Remote anywhere in the US in the EST or CST time zones ONLY) Contract : 6-12 Months Interview : Video Primary stack: SAP Commerce Cloud, Java, Spring, React.js Orchestration: Temporal or comparable durable workflow technology Role Overview: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to modernize a large SAP Commerce Cloud platform through AI-assisted engineering, context engineering, and durable workflow orchestration. A central responsibility of this role is designing business processes that remain reliable across service failures, deployments, retries, and long execution periods. The engineer should understand Temporal-style programming models and be able to apply the same principles using Temporal, Cadence, Azure Durable Functions,Conductor, or a comparable platform. This is a hands-on engineering role-not an AI strategy or prompt-engineering position. Responsibilities: Develop and support SAP Commerce Cloud capabilities using Java and Spring.Build Integrations with OCC and REST APIs.Design durable workflows for long-running commerce processes such as commerce cart work flows, order orchestration, inventory updates, and recovery operations.Separate deterministic orchestration logic from side-effecting activities.Design workflows that support:Durable state and event-history replayAutomatic retries and configurable backoffIdempotent activity executionTimeouts, timers, and cancellationCompensation and business rollbackSignals, events, and external callbacksHuman-in-the-loop processingWorkflow queries and operational visibilityVersioning of workflows already in productionSafe recovery after worker or dependency failureEstablish meaningful workflow identifiers, task queues, concurrency limits, and rate controls.Prevent unbounded workflow histories through appropriate continuation and lifecycle strategies.Build automated workflow, activity, replay, integration, and failure-path tests.Integrate durable workflows with SAP Commerce, Kafka, APIs, databases, and external services.Apply AI and context engineering to code discovery, implementation, testing, documentation, incident response, and release analysis.Build reusable AI instructions, agent skills, MCP integrations, repository context, and verification guardrails.Diagnose SAP Commerce performance issues involving FlexibleSearch, persistence, caching, TaskEngine, Kafka consumers, and database contention.Required Qualifications: Senior-level experience delivering distributed production systems.Strong SAP Commerce Cloud/Hybris or similar platform development experience.Advanced Java and Spring development skills.Experience with React.js and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.Hands-on experience with at least one durable orchestration platform, such as Temporal, Cadence, Azure Durable Functions, AWS Step Functions, or Conductor.Strong understanding of:Workflow determinism and replayWorkflow versus activity responsibilitiesAt-least-once execution semanticsIdempotency and duplicate preventionRetry classification and non-retryable failuresCompensation and saga patternsDurable timers and asynchronous eventsWorkflow versioning and backward compatibilityFailure recovery and operational visibilityExperience designing event-driven integrations using Kafka or comparable messaging technology.Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants or agentic engineering tools on substantive software work.Practical understanding of context engineering: equipping AI systems with appropriate domain knowledge, tools, instructions, examples, and validation.Strong automated testing, debugging, performance-analysis, and production-support skills. Preferred Qualifications: Temporal Java SDK experience.Experience operating Temporal workers, task queues, namespaces, schedules, search attributes, signals, queries, and updates.Experience testing workflow replay and safely evolving active workflow definitions.Knowledge of Protobuf, schema evolution, and backward-compatible contracts.SAP Commerce 2211, Java 21, and Spring 6 experience.Experience with OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Azure, and centralized logging.Experience building AI agents, MCP servers, reusable agent skills, or retrieval-augmented development systems. What Success Looks Like: Commerce processes continue reliably through deployments, outages, and transient dependency failures.Workflow retries do not create duplicate payments, orders, inventory changes, or external requests.Long-running processes are observable, queryable, testable, and recoverable.Existing workflows can evolve without replay failures or breaking in-flight executions.AI-assisted engineering measurably improves delivery while preserving testing, review, and human accountability.SAP Commerce performance, operational toil, and release risk decrease over time.