Backend Software Engineer (Search & Content Distribution)

We are the platform turning browsing into shopping. We connect 200 million shoppers with deals they love while boosting local sales for hundreds of top retailers and brands.

We help consumers save time and money while making smart shopping decisions, and we support retailers and brands in engaging customers from online research to in-store purchases.

Ready to spark your growth with us? 🚀

WHO WE LOOK FOR 🦄

Every day, millions of shoppers rely on our applications to discover relevant content and make smarter shopping decisions.

As a Software Engineer, you will join a team responsible for distributing content to shopper-facing applications, with a primary focus on search.

The team owns services that must efficiently handle large volumes of content and high request traffic, ensuring fast, reliable, and relevant search experiences. You will work on backend systems that power content discovery, using OpenSearch as our search engine, and contribute to building scalable and performant services.

You will be part of a collaborative engineering team, working closely with Product and technical leadership, while also mentoring more junior engineers and contributing to the team’s technical growth.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 🏄

Your responsibilities will focus on backend development, system design, and reliability, with opportunities to influence both day-to-day execution and longer-term technical direction.

Here are some examples of what you will work on:

• Develop new features and improvements for backend services that power content distribution and search
• Contribute to the design and evolution of systems handling large volumes of shopper requests and content
• Work on search-related features and performance optimizations using OpenSearch
• Plan, estimate, and deliver features and bug fixes that provide clear business value
• Break down large features and projects into manageable tasks that can be distributed across the team
• Identify and address performance issues in production systems
• Fix bugs and refactor code to improve maintainability and reusability of internal and open-source packages
• Modularize and abstract code to improve scalability and reuse
• Design and write automated unit and integration tests
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and enforcing best practices
• Contribute ideas to the team’s technical roadmap through hands-on development experience
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure reliability
• Collaborate with Product Owners and technical leaders to refine requirements for upcoming features
• Mentor Junior, Intern, and Co-op developers, helping grow their technical capabilities

WHAT YOU WILL NEED 🪄

Backend & Software Engineering

• 2–5 years of backend or full-stack development experience
• Experience working with relational databases or other data storage mechanisms
• Proven ability to ship quality code and deliver high-quality features in production
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Working knowledge of design patterns and how to apply them to real-world systems
• Experience contributing to the design of backend systems and services
• Ability to plan and estimate work for features and bug fixes

Quality, Performance & Reliability

• Experience writing automated unit tests and integration tests
• Ability to debug, refactor, and improve existing codebases
• Awareness of performance, scalability, and reliability considerations in backend systems
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and support production systems

Ways of Working

• Experience working in collaborative engineering teams
• Comfortable giving and receiving feedback through code reviews
• High growth mindset, with a desire to continuously improve yourself, the team, and the systems you work on

👉 At our company, we value diversity and actively encourage it — we believe a variety of perspectives and backgrounds makes us stronger. We focus on potential rather than on having a “perfect” CV. If this role excites you and you believe you could grow into it — even if you don’t tick every single box in the requirements — we’d love to hear from you!

NICE TO HAVE 🎆

• Experience with Golang
• Experience working with OpenSearch or similar search technologies
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

SALARY RANGE ⚖️ : €40,000 - €60,000 fixed gross salary per year

LOCATION 🌐

While we have offices all around the globe, you can benefit from our flexible hybrid model, empowering you to work where you're most effective.
Remote available from Italy, Spain and Poland.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT SHOPFULLY 🤗

🌎 An opportunity to thrive in a rapidly scaling multinational company

🕶️ A vibrant, informal, and inclusive work environment

🧠 We champion autonomy, flexibility, and a hybrid work model, empowering you to own your work

📚 Access to learning opportunities and regular feedback sessions

🍓 Enjoy our central, modern offices featuring fresh snacks, coffee (including vegan options!), and ergonomic setups

🎉 Engage in meaningful team events: offsites, happy hours, company parties and celebrations that unite us beyond daily tasks

💻We provide all the necessary equipment for you to work effectively and set up your workspace, wherever you are

🧰 Benefit from additional country-specific advantages based on local contracts and practices

WHO WE ARE 💜

We’re a team of 450 people (and counting!), from 30 different nationalities. We’re on a mission to innovate, and we believe the key to that is seeing the world through a variety of perspectives. That’s why building a more diverse team, as well as bringing in even more talent, is so important for us.

TO FEEL AT HOME 🛋️ IN SHOPFULLY YOU NEED 🎯

• Progress Over Perfection: We move forward. Always. In a fast-moving world, speed with purpose beats certainty without action. Momentum matters—not for its own sake, but because it drives results.

• Clarity Through Transparency: We bring each other along. We work in teams, not silos. Transparency gives context, and context enables action. That means we share decisions early, publish work in progress, and document outcomes so others can learn, move faster, and build better.

• Learn Loudly: We grow by doing and by daring. Big bets unlock big breakthroughs. But real innovation demands risk, and risk always carries the possibility of failure. That’s not a flaw. It’s the price of ambition.

• Challenge with Empathy: We speak up, even when it’s hard—because candor shows care, and leads to better outcomes. Listening deeply is how we grow. Disagreeing openly is how we build trust.

Always Build Better: We are builders—of products, systems, and ideas. But more than that, we are builders of better. Better has no finish line. It’s a mindset.

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