[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crate & Barrel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment to build their next-generation, global event-driven orchestration layer. The role focuses on developing a high-throughput fabric that coordinates distributed business logic across the supply chain e-commerce ecosystem, ensuring reliable order routing and inventory visibility.ResponsibilitiesExecute the systematic modernization of legacy transactional backend data flows into scalable microservices, ensuring high availability and seamless data consistency during the transitionEmbed advanced distributed tracing, structured logging, and real-time telemetry metrics into our orchestration pipelines to guarantee absolute visibility into complex end-to-end data flowsWork closely with product managers and team members to own the design, scalability, and delivery of high-volume data streams utilizing modern message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to ensure loose coupling and reliable event delivery across the enterpriseDesign and implement highly resilient distributed coordination patterns (Event-Driven Architectures) to manage complex, multi-system fulfillment lifecyclesAdhere to and promote engineering guardrails and best practices, focusing heavily on implementing services to continuously validate, observe, and publish system data, completely mitigating system drift and ghost-state errorsPerform thorough code reviews, ensuring high standards of code quality, structural maintainability, and microservice performanceIdentify and resolve complex technical issues and bugs within asynchronous communication paths, distributed transactions, and data caching layersContribute to architectural discussions and decisions by ensuring architectural decoupling of all routing rules and environment parameters into runtime configurations and feature flags to eliminate deployment bottlenecksDrive the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation by adhering to robust release engineering and automated deployment gating protocols before any code activatesSkillsStrong expertise in software design and architectural patternsDeep understanding of agile software development methodologies and the full software development lifecycleExcellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skillsStrong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with cross-functional team membersProven ability to mentor and guide other engineers in technical skillsProficiency in multiple programming languages and technologies relevant to our stackExperience with designing and developing scalable, high-performance, and reliable software solutions in an iterative wayIn-depth knowledge of software testing strategies and automationFamiliarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices architectureUnderstanding of database design, performance tuning, and security best practicesBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)5+ years of experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant backend applications and microservices using strongly-typed ecosystem (Java/JVM, .NET/C#, or equivalent enterprise backend languages)Hands-on mastery of asynchronous event patterns, message queue architectures, stream processing, and solving for data-at-rest vs. data-in-transit challenges. (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native event buses) managing high-volume data centralizationDeep understanding of distributed transactions, idempotency, eventual consistency, and how to handle distributed state-machine failures gracefullyExperience with technical aspects of complex backend projects from initial system design through production deployment and automated scale testingCompany OverviewAt Crate & Barrel, we help people build a home with purpose. It was founded in 1962, and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL, US, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.crateandbarrel.com.Company H1B SponsorshipCrate & Barrel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 10 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.