Sr. Backend Engineer

Elevate Digital — United States · Posted ~1 hour ago

Senior

Skills

PHP Adobe Commerce (Magento 2) Magento APIs GraphQL REST AWS RabbitMQ event-driven architecture caching observability performance optimization

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join a team that designs and maintains robust backend services for a large-scale commerce platform. You’ll develop modular PHP/Magento components, implement GraphQL and REST APIs, integrate with inventory and order management systems, and ensure high performance through caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native architectures.

Highlights

Opportunity to lead backend development for a major e‑commerce platform, building scalable GraphQL/REST services, integrating complex enterprise systems, and optimizing high‑traffic Magento environments on AWS with modern messaging and observability tools.

Description

**Must be able to work W2 for any employer** Sr. Backend Engineer 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.