Senior Backend Engineer (Grocery)

Join the Storefront Team and help build the core customer-facing experience of our marketplace - from discovering partners and browsing product catalogs to product details, cart, and checkout. You’ll work on scalable backend solutions that provide a seamless experience across different partners while improving performance, personalization, conversion, and enabling the rapid integration of new partners.
Location: Georgia (country) 🇬🇪 

Department

Directorate of Business Platform

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Georgia

Workplace type

Hybrid

Requisition ID

7073

Key Responsibilities

• Developing backend services for a grocery storefront, including catalog, categories, search, PDP, cart, and checkout.

• Working with large catalogs and assortments that depend on a specific store, warehouse, or user location.

• Handling frequently changing prices, inventory, discounts, and product availability.

• Validating the cart before checkout, including prices, availability, quantity limits, minimum order value, and store restrictions.

• Supporting grocery-specific scenarios such as weighted products, unavailable items, and substitutions.

• Integrating with catalog, pricing, inventory, order, payment, and delivery services.

• Onboarding grocery partners with different APIs and data models.

• Ensuring low latency, high availability, and resilience of customer-facing flows.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Mandatory: proven experience in the grocery

• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering. With experience solving complex problems in high-load environments

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language. Knows and has applied advanced features of the Go language in practice

• Strong SQL knowledges, including designing schemas, scaling strategies (replication, partitioning, sharding) and query optimisation for high-load environment

• In-depth knowledge of Redis, familiar with various data structures, and its efficient use in high-load systems

• Experience working with Docker, understanding CI/CD pipelines. Knows how work k8s (or analogs) and cloud infrastructure (like AWS)

• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication patterns, with a focus on reliability in high load environment

• Knows main microservice architecture patterns. Deep understanding of how to build efficient interactions between client and server applications, knows limitations

• Proven ability to design and implement a full observability strategy, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing

• An interest in new technologies, a collaborative spirit, and a drive to continuously develop your skills

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 47 countries.

• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.

• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.

• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.

• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.

• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.

Final benefits may vary depending on the location.