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Senior Backend Engineer - Commercial Technology

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In short
As a Backend Engineer in our Commercial cluster, you will be at the heart of On's digital ecosystem. You will design, build, and scale the critical services that power our global e-commerce platform, B2B partner portals, and retail experiences. Your work will directly impact how we deliver product information, checkout process and end-to-end e-com user experience, to our customers and partners, ensuring a seamless and premium experience that drives our commercial success.
Your mission
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services using our modern tech stack, with a primary focus on NestJS, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
- Take ownership of key components within our Commercial cluster, ensuring they are performant, reliable, and meet the needs of various client applications (web, mobile, and third-party integrations).
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features.
- Write/Vibecode clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and contribute to a culture of high quality and continuous improvement through code reviews and pair programming.
- Deploy and operate your services in a cloud-native environment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Engage with and contribute to our distributed systems landscape, helping to build resilient systems that can handle our growing scale.
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Your story
- A strong background in backend development, with proven experience building and shipping high-quality software.
- Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of modern backend frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with NestJS is a significant advantage.
- Solid experience in designing, building, and consuming GraphQL APIs.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP is a plus) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- You are a collaborative team player with excellent communication skills, comfortable working in an agile environment.
- Bonus points for experience with: ORM tools like MikroORM, Event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, BullMQ, Pub/Sub), E-com ecosystems.


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