Developer – Microservices

Appnovation helps brands thrive through innovative, people-inspired experiences and solutions. By embracing the powerful combination of technology and agility, we seamlessly integrate strategy, experience, design, development and analytics.

We create standout digital experiences by collaborating with brands to understand the individual challenges and goals for every initiative. Focusing on our clients’ customers, we effectively combine empathy, evidence and real-world insight so that solutions are derived from truth and meaning. Appnovation is an award-winning team dedicated to inspiring possibility.

Microservices Developer (python) – eCommerce

Full-Time Opportunity

Appnovation is looking for a talented back end integration developer with strong ecommerce experience, ideally with Commercetools or headless ecommerce implementations, to join our highly motivated and experienced team, working within our growing development team and creating solutions for our client base.

This exciting role will give you the opportunity to lead development on groundbreaking ecommerce projects.

What You Will Do

Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to the development process that build solutions across multiple platforms following MACH architecture principles
• Design and build microservices for connecting front end commerce components and for creating system integrations within the digital commerce ecosystem
• Coordinate and work closely with Business Analysts, Delivery Leads and Client Stakeholders and Technical Counterparts
• Input into the definition of the Technical Architecture of Ecommerce solutions related to microservice engineering
• Support project Discovery and Functional Definition through investigating, structuring, and coding proof of concept spikes
• Refine best practices, processes and standards for our microservices engineering approach
• Be hands on and able to assist with critical coding, peer programming and advise on refactoring, TDD, etc.
• Well-practiced with Agile Development Methodology, working in short sprint cycles, and able to help lead other developers.

Who You Are – The Essentials

Having a good mix of these skills will make you a great candidate for the role:

• Passionate about software development and highly skilled in the digital commerce
• Ecommece business acumen for checkout, payment, order management, product & catalogs, personalization, subscription, customer data, omnichannel.
• Highly competent with event driven, python serverless microservices on AWS and TDD
• Cloudwatch logs
• Highly skilled with microservices best practices and principles
• Excellent understanding of Commercetools or other headless commerce platforms and API driven architectures
• Understanding of Microservices patterns: stranglers, Saga, CQRS, Domain event, event sourcing, BFF, FaaS
• Solid understanding and capabilities with cloud technologies, serverless, event driven architectures, logging, message queues, security best practices, identity management, performance engineering, CI/CD, search, commerce analytics
• Proven experience working with event driven distributed systems
• Collaborative and able to work closely with Architects and Developers
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Who You Are – Nice To Have

• Experience with Terraform
• Algolia or similar search federation and integration
• Working experience with the following is a plus:
• JAMstack (NextJS, Gatsby JS, GraphQL)
• Node JS microservices
• Contentful or other headless CMS
• Key Commerce integrations: PIM, DAM, ERP, OMS, Customer Data, Payment Gateway
• Personalisation and Testing

WHAT DOES APPNOVATION HAVE TO OFFER?

Appnovation’s development teams are collaborative, friendly and open, with extremely rewarding and varied work and we encourage development both professionally and personally! Aside from work, we offer a people and culture orientated, fun and dynamic hybrid remote working and in-office environment.

Here’s a few more reasons why you should apply:

• Rocketing growth – yours and ours. Lots of opportunity for personal and professional growth. We have a culture of internal promotions.
• Health Benefits Package
• Fitness Allowance
• Flexible Working

Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies!



Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Appnovation Technologies is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce and an inclusive work environment where all employees are treated equally.

Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies! Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Appnovation, we recognize that diverse teams are the strongest teams. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace – we celebrate it! We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences and industries to apply. Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital.

Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.