Ankorstore

Staff Engineer – Golang, PHP

Ankorstore

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇪🇸 Spain

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsGoMicroservicesPHP

About the role

  • Own key architectural decisions inside one or several domains, ensuring alignment with Ankorstore’s tech vision.
  • Translate the long-term architecture strategy into practical designs that squads can execute.
  • Drive the adoption of modular, API-first, event-driven, and data-centric design patterns.
  • Participate in design reviews and challenge proposals with constructive, high-level technical judgment.
  • Contribute hands-on to complex technical components, refactors, and mission-critical projects.
  • Debug and resolve systemic issues across services, infrastructure, and data flows.
  • Champion performance, scalability, and reliability across squads.
  • Coach Senior Engineers and elevate their architectural thinking.
  • Promote best engineering practices, raising the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and documentation.
  • Partner with Product, Data, and Platform leaders to build coherent solutions.
  • Ensure technical solutions directly support our brand-first OS strategy and services expansion.
  • Explore technologies (AI integration, event-driven workflows, platformization trends) and push prototypes that create leverage.
  • Identify long-term opportunities to improve foundations and reduce complexity.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in Staff+, Tech Lead, or equivalent senior IC roles.
  • Proven ability to design, evolve, and scale complex distributed systems.
  • Experience driving architectural initiatives inside fast-paced product organisations.
  • Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and domain modeling.
  • Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of Ankorstore’s core backend languages (PHP, Golang).
  • Demonstrated influence across multiple teams without formal authority.
  • Excellent communication skills—able to simplify and explain architecture to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfortable working in English.
Benefits
  • All of our employees are automatically covered by Health Insurance & Life Insurance.
  • We have partnered with Swile to provide you with meal vouchers
  • You will have access to Leeto a platform that provides you with exclusive discounts, cultural activities, holiday vouchers and more
  • Paid leaves + RTT
  • Modern offices located in Paris (Opéra), providing a vibrant and inspiring work environment
  • __Sana Labs__, a dynamic learning platform offering engaging, customised training experiences and fostering skills development across the entire organisation

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
architectural designmodular designAPI-first designevent-driven architecturedata-centric designmicroservicesdistributed systemsPHPGolangcode quality
Soft skills
communicationcoachinginfluenceconstructive judgmentcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershiptechnical simplificationmentoringcritical thinking