Senior Software Engineer (Backend Focused)

# Senior Software Engineer (Backend Focused) ## The company and our mission: Zartis is a global AI transformation and technology consulting partner where talented engineers and technologists work on cutting edge innovation. We partner with ambitious organizations to design, build, and scale technology solutions that deliver real impact. Our teams bring deep expertise in AI driven platforms, secure API architectures, and cloud native engineering. You will work on meaningful projects that accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies, from strategy and discovery through to full product delivery, helping turn complex challenges into measurable outcomes. With engineering hubs across EMEA and LATAM, and long term partnerships in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and climate, we offer opportunities to work on projects that truly matter. Here, you will not just build technology, you will drive business impact and grow your career alongside industry leaders. We are looking for a **Senior Software Engineer (Backend Focused)** to work on a project in the fashion industry. ## The project: Our teammates are talented people that come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and innovation. You will be part of a distributed team developing new technologies to solve real business problems. Our client is a leading premium fashion and lifestyle omnichannel retailer, with a long heritage and a strong digital commerce presence alongside its physical stores. The organisation is actively accelerating its digital capabilities to enhance customer experience and retail operations at scale, making technology a core driver of business growth We are looking for someone with good communication skills, ideally with experience making decisions, being proactive, used to building software from scratch, and with good attention to detail. ## What you will do: - Take ownership of data-driven backend features that power personalised navigation, product discovery, and user experiences. - Develop features such as chatbots, personalised search filters, and other data-driven capabilities, depending on project priorities. - Design, implement, and continuously improve APIs and backend services. - Contribute to backend architecture and technical decision-making, collaborating with the team to propose, evaluate, and implement solutions. - Support full-stack development when needed, including smaller frontend and infrastructure tasks. - Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and actively participate in code reviews. - Collaborate closely with the wider team in an Agile/Scrum environment, using tools such as Jira. ## What you will bring: - 7+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development. - A proactive, ownership-driven mindset, with the ability to take initiative, drive conversations forward, take responsibility for topics, and bring new ideas or improvements without needing to be prompted. - Excellent English communication skills (CEFR C1 or above), with the ability to communicate clearly in both technical and interpersonal contexts. - Strong backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot, including working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. - Good understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and their application in backend software development. ## Nice to have: - Experience with data processing using Python, and knowledge of data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow); familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Google BigQuery) - Experience with CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform - Experience in the e-commerce sector ## What we offer: - **100% Remote Work** - **WFH allowance:** Monthly payment as financial support for remote working. - **Career Growth:** We have established a career development program accessible for all employees with a 360º feedback that will help us to guide you in your career progression. - **Training:** For Tech training at Zartis, you have time allocated during the week at your disposal. You can request from a variety of options, such as online courses (from Pluralsight and , for example), English classes, books, conferences, and events. - **Mentoring Program:** You can become a mentor in Zartis or you can receive mentorship, or both. - **Zartis Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect):** A platform that provides sessions with a range of specialists, including mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, fitness coaches, and webinars with such professionals as well. - **Multicultural working environment:** We organize tech events, webinars, parties, and activities to do online team-building games and contests.