Lead Backend Engineer — Adobe Commerce / Magento 2

Neotech Global Private Limited — United States · Posted ~3 hours ago

Lead Contract Remote No Visa

Skills

PHP Adobe Commerce Magento 2 Magento APIs GraphQL REST APIs Event-driven architecture Cloud-native services Performance optimization Automated testing Production support Technical leadership Mentoring REST Cloud Message queues

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Lead backend engineering for a long-term remote engagement focused on a large-scale commerce platform. You will build APIs, modules, services, event-driven components, and cloud-native integrations while mentoring engineers, making implementation decisions, optimizing performance, and supporting production systems.

Highlights

Remote lead engineering role with an extended 18+ month engagement. The position combines hands-on backend development, technical leadership, mentoring, architecture collaboration, API design, performance optimization, and production support.

Description

Role: Lead Backend Engineer - Adobe Commerce/Magento 2 Location: Remote Duration: 18+ months Job type: Full time/Contract NEED ONLY VISA INDEPENDENTS ONLY Summary: We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer with 8+ years of backend development experience and strong expertise in PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2. This role requires deep experience with Magento APIs, GraphQL, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native services, performance optimization, automated testing, and production support. The selected candidate will serve as a senior hands-on technical lead, mentor engineers, and partner closely with the Architect on implementation decisions. Key Responsibilities Build and extend Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers.Build REST and GraphQL APIs and service layers that decouple frontend applications from Magento and other backend systems.Integrate with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms.Develop and support event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging using RabbitMQ or similar platforms.Work with AWS/cloud-native services, caching, databases, queues, observability, and distributed-system troubleshooting.Address Magento performance considerations, including indexing, database load, caching, asynchronous processing, and high-volume catalog and order workloads.Build middleware and adapters that map new commerce services into existing Magento GraphQL/API contracts during phased migration.Perform automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, debugging, and production support.Serve as a senior hands-on technical lead and mentor engineers.Partner closely with the Architect on implementation decisions.Required Qualifications 8+ years of backend development experience.Strong PHP and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2 expertise.Deep experience with Magento APIs, GraphQL resolvers, modules, services, plugins, observers, cron jobs, and message-queue consumers.Strong experience building REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers.Experience integrating with catalog, pricing, inventory, promotions, customer/identity, PIM, ERP, and OMS platforms.Strong event-driven architecture and messaging experience, preferably with 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 and high-volume catalog/order workloads.Experience building middleware/adapters for phased commerce migrations.Strong automated testing, CI/CD, code-review, debugging, and production-support experience.· Experience serving as a senior hands-on technical lead and mentoring engineers. Gunda Goutham Talent Acquisition Executive M: +1 908-274-0069 India : Neo Tech Global Private Limited USA : Neo Tech Solutions, INC. www.neotechusa.com