Staff Engineer - B2B E-commerce Platform (PHP/Golang, GCP, Kubernetes)

Launched in 2019, Ankorstore has established itself as Europe’s leading B2B platform connecting brands and independent retailers. We provide an innovative, global, and technology-driven solution enabling independent retailers to diversify products and benefit from competitive commercial terms, empowering them to compete with major players.

As a Staff Engineer at Ankorstore, you are one of the most senior technical contributors in the company. You will drive architectural thinking at the squad level while contributing directly to key initiatives. Reporting directly to the VP Product & Tech, you act as a technical partner to leadership, an embedded expert guiding complex technical decisions, and a multiplier for the entire engineering organization, raising technical quality and promoting modern patterns.

This role requires strong ownership, broad impact, and the ability to move seamlessly from hands-on work to architectural guidance. You will influence at the organizational level through clarity, expertise, and deep problem-solving, helping squads build systems aligned with our long-term modular platform strategy.

Main Responsibilities:

Architecture & System Design:

• Own key architectural decisions within 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.

Execution & Delivery:

• 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.

Technical Leadership & Alignment:

• 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.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• 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.

Tech Stack Highlights:

• Back-end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang
• Front-end: Vue 2/3, Nuxt 3/4, Typescript, Vuex / Pinia, sass, postcss, Vite Storybook, Chromatic, Tailwind
• QA: Vitest, Jest, Cypress
• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, MySQL, Redis
• Tools: Github, CircleCI, Sentry, Notion, Graphana, Docker, Jira, Figma

Preferred Experience:

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in Staff+, Tech Lead, or equivalent senior Individual Contributor roles.
• Proven ability to design, evolve, and scale complex distributed systems.
• Experience driving architectural initiatives inside fast-paced product organizations.
• 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.

Location & Benefits:

This is a full remote contract position based in Spain.

Ankorstore offers a versatile range of benefits to support employee well-being and work-life balance:

• Health Insurance & Life Insurance (SideCare).
• Meal vouchers (Swile).
• Access to Leeto platform for exclusive discounts and activities.
• Paid leaves + RTT.
• Access to Sana Labs dynamic learning platform.
• Modern offices located in Paris (Opéra) for optional use.