👌 Vacancy: Backend lead / Senior / Middle+ (Node / Node+Go)
🏡 Company: Native Commerce
📍 Location: Barcelona (hybrid: 3 days coworking)
💻 Work format: Hybrid / Full-time / Contractor
📝 Contract type: contractor agreement
💷 Salary: €3000-6500 (open to discussion, paid in GBP via Deel)
Native Commerce delivers mission-critical software for modern e-commerce brands-spanning website/web app frontends, warehouse management (WMS), order management (OMS), logistics, and real-time BI-all unified in a modular, composable platform. Our goal: help e-commerce businesses run smoother, reduce costs, and boost revenue.
1️⃣ Backend Engineer (Node.js) Direction: working with Saas e-commerce platform
Responsibilities:
- building backend solutions for major e-commerce player
- contributing to platform development and integrations
- Go as a plus (broader engineering perspective)
2️⃣ Node.js + Go Backend Engineer (Senior / Tech Lead) Direction: PIM strategy + implementation
Key responsibility: Improving the overall SaaS platform by structuring complex processes
- OMS
- WMS
- operational tools
- independently define and build the PIM strategy
- implement it with clients
- this is not just development
- this is ownership + product thinking + implementation
💡 Across all roles, we value:
- independence
- ownership
- ability to work without detailed specifications
- системное (system-level) thinking
✅ Our ideal candidate:
We are not looking for just a strong coder.
We are looking for an engineer who solves problems.
- A developer with a broad technical background and versatile experience.
- A lead/ Senior / Middle+ level engineer: strong in architecture, ownership, independence, initiative, maturity, and engineering discipline, with a focus on quality.
- Someone who sees the system end-to-end, not just their own isolated component.
- Experience in e-commerce, high-load systems, marketplaces, or transactional platforms - a major advantage.
- Confident using AI-assisted tools such as Copilot, Claude-Code, Cursor, automated tests, and LLM-based workflows.
If you’re a hands-on engineer who builds complex systems, understands how modern e-commerce works, and wants to join a team where AI is a core part of the engineering process - we’d love to talk.
🔑 Key requirements
1. Strong independence (core)
- Makes decisions independently
- Does not wait for detailed specs
- Comfortable working in ambiguity
2. Troubleshooting mindset
- Able to debug complex systems
- Fixes issues end-to-end
- Thinks systemically
3. Broad engineering mindset
- Product thinking OR
- Testing mindset OR
- DevOps understanding
4. AI-first approach (must-have)
- Uses AI tools daily (not occasionally)
- Copilot, Claude-Code, Cursor, LLM workflows
- Integrates AI into real development process
5. Senior level
- Strong in architecture, ownership, responsibility
- Potential to act as a Tech/Team Lead
➕ Nice to have
- Experience with e-commerce, marketplaces, high-load systems
- Understanding of carts, checkout, OMS/WMS, delivery flows
🧭 What you’ll do
- Build and maintain backend solutions