Senior Ecommerce Backend Engineer: AI - Native
Edmund Optics2 years ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$120k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and extend backend services, APIs, and integration layers for a modular ecommerce platform.
- Use AI coding agents and agentic development workflows to generate, refactor, test, debug, document, and improve production code.
- Validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and architectural fit.
- Integrate personalization, semantic and LLM-driven search, DAM, PIM, analytics, data services, and other ecommerce components.
- Build reliable integrations between ecommerce systems and SAP/HANA, product, pricing, inventory, customer, and order data.
- Develop scalable, secure, and documented APIs and services for internal applications, third-party platforms, and customer-facing experiences.
- Integrate LLM-enabled and semantic capabilities, including retrieval, product discovery, conversational experiences, and supporting data pipelines or service layers.
- Implement automated testing, debugging, code review, observability, performance monitoring, and regression prevention.
- Create reusable services and integration patterns that support modular and composable ecommerce architecture.
- Collaborate with vendors, implementation partners, frontend developers, architects, product teams, data teams, and enterprise application owners.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience building production web applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations.
- Professional experience using AI coding agents or AI-assisted development tools to write, refactor, test, debug, and document software.
- Strong engineering judgment and ability to review and improve AI-generated code.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, service integrations, data interfaces, and backend application patterns.
- Experience integrating multiple enterprise or SaaS platforms in a production web or ecommerce environment.
- Strong understanding of databases, data modeling, SQL, system-to-system data flows, error handling, and integration reliability.
- Experience with source control, automated testing, code review, CI/CD practices, logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 7 years of professional software development experience, including substantial backend, API, or systems integration work.
- Recent professional experience with AI-assisted or agentic coding workflows.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies.
- Ability to work onsite in Barrington, New Jersey.
- US citizenship or permanent residence is required.
- Preferred experience includes B2B ecommerce, manufacturing or technical products, PIM, DAM, personalization, semantic search, LLM/RAG, ERP, analytics, SAP/SAP HANA, cloud services, event-based integrations, caching, search platforms, or distributed service architectures.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 3%.
- Daycare and gym reimbursement.
- Paid parental leave and new mother benefits.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Onsite work in Barrington, New Jersey.
- Benefits may depend on country and employment type.
About Edmund Optics
Edmund Optics designs, manufactures, and distributes precision optics, imaging lenses, and optomechanical components for industrial automation, life sciences, semiconductor, research, and defense applications. The privately held company sells both stock catalog components and custom optical assemblies through a global manufacturing and distribution network. Founded in 1942 and headquartered in Barrington, New Jersey, it supports applications such as machine vision, microscopy, laser systems, and metrology.