Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer owning search, data, integrations, and fulfilment automation for a Nordic dental distribution platform. Extending WooCommerce with PHP, MySQL, REST, and scalable architecture.

Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of and stabilise the commerce platform
  • Own search, filtering, and sorting across an 80,000+ product catalogue
  • Structure large datasets covering products, customers, purchasing behaviour, and logistics
  • Optimise databases and queries for large catalogue workloads and WooCommerce performance
  • Build and extend supplier integrations for stock synchronisation, cost synchronisation, and pricing engines
  • Automate the order-to-fulfilment flow, including order processing, supplier handoff, and payment flow
  • Build multi-segment pricing logic for customer groups with different prices and discounts
  • Evaluate and influence architectural decisions involving search platforms, headless options, data services, and AI-assisted workflows
  • Progressively assume technical ownership as the founder steps back from hands-on technical work

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of backend / full-stack engineering experience, with PHP and MySQL among your working tools
  • Strong analytical and structural thinking
  • Genuine independence and ability to solve high-level problems without daily instructions
  • Comfort in a Linux server environment, including deployment, debugging, and administration
  • REST API design and integration
  • Git
  • Experience with large-scale e-commerce catalogues is a strong plus
  • Search technology exposure (Elasticsearch, Solr, Algolia, or similar) is a strong plus
  • ERP or supplier integration work is a strong plus
  • Background processing / job queue architecture is a strong plus
  • Data processing and pipeline experience is a strong plus
  • WooCommerce / WordPress familiarity is a strong plus

Benefits:

  • Ownership from day one
  • Room to grow into technical leadership
  • Direct access to decision-makers
  • Remote work arrangement