Shopware

Engineering Lead – Service Enablement Team

Shopware

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoGRPCJavaScriptMySQLNode.jsRedisTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Lead and develop the team: recruiting, coaching, regular feedback, mentoring, and supporting individual career development.
  • Own delivery and technical direction: plan and manage work on gRPC/REST APIs, background jobs, data pipelines, and reusable infrastructure components.
  • Reliability at scale: improve the performance and resilience of high-traffic services and workflows based on Redis, MySQL, and SQS.
  • Engineering excellence: establish standards for quality, testing, security, and observability, and optimize GitHub workflows (PR quality, CI, automation).
  • Operational excellence: take responsibility for incident response, postmortems, SLOs/SLIs, and pragmatic improvements to on-call health.
  • Collaborate as a partner: work closely with Product, Security, and other engineering teams to align roadmaps and ensure smooth, secure deployments.
  • Communicate clearly: keep stakeholders continuously informed about progress, risks, trade-offs, and outcomes.

Requirements

  • Solid hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, or System Administrator.
  • More than 5 years of experience leading engineering teams, ideally in Platform Engineering or cloud teams.
  • Extensive experience with AWS, Terraform, Datadog, and modern CI/CD practices in GitHub.
  • Strong skills in system design for distributed systems, APIs, datastores, and asynchronous processing.
  • Practical experience with Go and TypeScript/Node.js.
  • Experience building multi-tenant, secure, and resilient services in production.
  • Strong ownership mindset and a proven track record of sustainably improving team performance.
  • Fluent English is required.
Benefits
  • Open culture, flat hierarchies, and encouragement of initiative.
  • Permanent employment contracts offering long-term security.
  • Flexible working hours and options for mobile work and full-remote contracts.
  • Free choice of work hardware.
  • Well-structured onboarding with support from a personal "buddy".
  • Inspiring environment with committed colleagues and a dynamic community.
  • Diverse opportunities for personal growth and development.
  • Attractive benefits such as company pension plans, health programs, and regular team events.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard skills
gRPCREST APIsbackground jobsdata pipelinesRedisMySQLSQSGitHubTerraformGo
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationownership mindsetfeedbackcareer developmentincident responsestakeholder management