[Remote] Senior Ecommerce Backend Engineer: AI - Native

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Edmund Optics is seeking a Senior Ecommerce Backend Engineer to build and integrate backend services for its modular ecommerce platform. The role focuses on APIs, ecommerce and enterprise system integrations, and AI- and LLM-enabled capabilities, using AI coding agents throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Backend Platform Development: Design, build, maintain, and extend backend services, APIs, and integration layers that support Edmund Optics' modular ecommerce architecture and customer-facing web experiences
• AI-Native Software Development: Use AI coding agents and agentic development workflows as a core part of day-to-day engineering to generate, refactor, test, debug, document, and accelerate production code. Validate AI-generated output for correctness, security, maintainability, and performance rather than treating generated code as automatically production-ready
• Ecommerce Systems Integration: Integrate key ecommerce capabilities including personalization platforms, semantic/LLM search and discovery, DAM, PIM, analytics and data services, and other modular components as the ecommerce ecosystem evolves
• Enterprise Data & ERP Integration: Build and maintain reliable integrations between the ecommerce platform and internal enterprise systems, including SAP/HANA, product, pricing, inventory, customer, order, and other business data required to support ecommerce experiences and transactions
• API & Service Architecture: Develop scalable, secure, well-documented APIs and services that allow internal applications, third-party platforms, and customer-facing experiences to exchange data efficiently and consistently
• LLM & Semantic Capabilities: Partner with ecommerce, search, data, and AI teams to integrate LLM-enabled and semantic capabilities into the site, including retrieval, product discovery, conversational experiences, and supporting data pipelines or service layers
• Quality, Testing & Debugging: Build automated testing and validation into development workflows. Use AI-assisted debugging where appropriate while maintaining strong standards for code review, observability, performance, regression prevention, and production reliability
• Modular Architecture & Reusability: Develop services and components with clear boundaries, reusable interfaces, and maintainable integration patterns that support continued movement toward a more modular and composable ecommerce architecture
• Vendor & Partner Collaboration: Work directly with technology vendors, implementation partners, and internal teams to understand technical requirements, review integration approaches, troubleshoot issues, and translate platform capabilities into production solutions
• Continuous Improvement & Emerging Tools: Stay current with AI-assisted software development, agentic coding workflows, backend architecture, integration patterns, and emerging ecommerce technologies. Evaluate new approaches pragmatically and adopt those that measurably improve engineering speed, quality, or maintainability

Skills

• Strong hands-on backend software engineering experience building production web applications, services, APIs, and integrations
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools to write, refactor, test, debug, and document code as part of a professional software development workflow
• Strong engineering judgment and the ability to review, validate, and improve AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and architectural fit
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, service integrations, data interfaces, and modern backend application patterns
• Experience integrating multiple enterprise or SaaS platforms within 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
• Ability to work effectively with frontend developers, architects, product and ecommerce teams, data teams, enterprise application owners, and external implementation partners
• Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and comfort working in an evolving environment where architecture and tools will continue to change
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on backend, API, or systems integration work
• Demonstrated recent experience using AI-assisted or agentic coding workflows in real software development, not solely experimentation or prompt-based prototyping
• Experience with B2B ecommerce, technical products, manufacturing, or another complex product and transaction environment
• Experience integrating ecommerce platforms with PIM, DAM, personalization, semantic search, LLM/RAG capabilities, ERP, analytics, or related enterprise systems
• Experience working with SAP and/or SAP HANA data and integration patterns
• Experience with modern cloud services, message/event-based integration patterns, caching, search platforms, or distributed service architectures

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Life, AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Tuition Reimbursement (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match up to 3% (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Daycare and Gym Reimbursement (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Paid Parental Leave and New Mother Benefits (availability may depend on the country and employment type)
• Training and Development Opportunities (availability may depend on the country and employment type)

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