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Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant backend applications and microservices
  • Strong expertise in software design and architectural patterns
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages and technologies relevant to our stack

Responsibilities

  • Execute the systematic modernization of legacy transactional backend data flows into scalable microservices
  • Embed advanced distributed tracing, structured logging, and real-time telemetry metrics into our orchestration pipelines
  • Work closely with product managers and team members to design and deliver high-volume data streams
  • Design and implement highly resilient distributed coordination patterns to manage complex fulfillment lifecycles

About the company

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Crate and Barrel

Retail – Furniture & Home Furnishings

At Crate and Barrel, we help people love how they live in moments that matter. Founded in 1962, Crate and Barrel, Holdings (CBH) is an industry-leading home furnishings specialty retailer, including the brands Crate and Barrel, Crate and Kids, CB2, and Hudson and Grace. A leader in omnichannel retail and direct marketing, we believe in the experience of physical stores and embracing the customer experience by offering inspired living across all of our platforms. From curated product sourcing and production to custom delivery and set-up in more than 90 countries, our 7,500 talented associates form the dynamic teams that keep our company running and growing. Today, Crate and Barrel, Holdings is owned by the Otto Group, a Hamburg, Germany based global family of retailers and retail-related service providers focused on digital innovation, technology, sustainability and corporate responsibility. We operate more than 100 stores throughout the U.S. and Canada, and hold international franchise locations in nine countries, including six franchise eCommerce platforms. To learn more about Crate and Barrel, visit www.crateandbarrel.com. To become a part of our family of brands, visit our careers site at www.jobs.crateandbarrel.com and www.jobs.cb2.com

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryRetail – Furniture & Home Furnishings
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is nearly 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

 

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment to build our next-generation, global event-driven orchestration layer. This is a Macro-focused software role responsible for developing the high-throughput fabric that coordinates distributed business logic across our entire supply chain e Commerce ecosystem. Instead of managing brittle, point-to-point batch integrations, you will build and own the central event mesh, distributed state machines, and global data contracts that ensure reliable, real-time order routing, inventory visibility, and fulfillment state orchestration.

 

  • This position is fully remote

  • This role is an Individual Contributor

A day in the life as a Senior Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment...

  • Execute the systematic modernization of legacy transactional backend data flows into scalable microservices, ensuring high availability and seamless data consistency during the transition
  • Embed advanced distributed tracing, structured logging, and real-time telemetry metrics into our orchestration pipelines to guarantee absolute visibility into complex end-to-end data flows
  • Work closely with product managers and team members to own the design, scalability, and delivery of high-volume data streams utilizing modern message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to ensure loose coupling and reliable event delivery across the enterprise
  • Design and implement highly resilient distributed coordination patterns (Event-Driven Architectures) to manage complex, multi-system fulfillment lifecycles
  • Adhere to and promote engineering guardrails and best practices, focusing heavily on implementing services to continuously validate, observe, and publish system data, completely mitigating system drift and ghost-state errors
  • Perform thorough code reviews, ensuring high standards of code quality, structural maintainability, and microservice performance
  • Identify and resolve complex technical issues and bugs within asynchronous communication paths, distributed transactions, and data caching layers
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions by ensuring architectural decoupling of all routing rules and environment parameters into runtime configurations and feature flags to eliminate deployment bottlenecks
  • Drive the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation by adhering to robust release engineering and automated deployment gating protocols before any code activates

What you'll bring to the table...

  • Strong expertise in software design and architectural patterns
  • Deep understanding of agile software development methodologies and the full software development lifecycle
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with cross-functional team members
  • Proven ability to mentor and guide other engineers in technical skills
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages and technologies relevant to our stack
  • Experience with designing and developing scalable, high-performance, and reliable software solutions in an iterative way
  • In-depth knowledge of software testing strategies and automation
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices architecture
  • Understanding of database design, performance tuning, and security best practices

We'd love to hear from you if you have...

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 5+ years of experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant backend applications and microservices using strongly-typed ecosystem (Java/JVM, .NET/C#, or equivalent enterprise backend languages)
  • Hands-on mastery of asynchronous event patterns, message queue architectures, stream processing, and solving for data-at-rest vs. data-in-transit challenges. (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native event buses) managing high-volume data centralization
  • Deep understanding of distributed transactions, idempotency, eventual consistency, and how to handle distributed state-machine failures gracefully
  • Experience with technical aspects of complex backend projects from initial system design through production deployment and automated scale testing

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Euromarket Designs, Inc., which does business as Crate and Barrel and CB2, will be referred to as “the Company”. The Company is deeply committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact the location you are applying to here and ask to speak with a manager regarding the nature of your request.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

The Company participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the US.

State / City Compliance: The Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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