Senior Backend Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 25-09-2026 - Shopfully in Roma
Senior Backend Software Engineer
We are the platform turning browsing into shopping. We connect 200 million shoppers with deals they love while boosting local sales for hundreds of top retailers and brands.
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will join a cross‑functional team responsible for the backend systems that power our iOS and Android applications, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve scalable, secure, fault‑tolerant distributed systems within an event‑driven microservices architecture
- Own and advance backend service architecture with a platform mindset, creating reusable services, APIs, and shared components that enable the internal developer community
- Translate product requirements into clear, well‑designed technical solutions, collaborating closely with Product, Design, Quality, and Data teams
- Own the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle—from technical design, estimation, implementation, testing, deployment to production support
- Write clean, robust, and well‑tested code, applying SOLID principles,
proven design patterns, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices while actively reducing technical debt
- Act as a senior technical leader, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring through code reviews, and serving as a point of reference during production incidents
- Integrate AI‑assisted development tools into daily workflow and help the team adopt effective practices—treating AI tooling as a core part of engineering productivity, not an experiment
Qualifications
- 7+ years of backend or full‑stack development experience designing and building scalable, reliable backend systems
- Proven experience with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, etc.)
- Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases; experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with event‑driven systems and messaging (e.g., Kafka, SQS/SNS)
- Strong system design expertise with hands‑on experience ope