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Here at Fashion Cloud we are transforming the fashion industry and supporting our customers through our solid base of software products. We are seeking a software engineer to help us grow and maintain our web platform.

Join our dynamic and innovative team as a Senior Backend Engineer, where you'll play a key role in solving complex data ingestion and processing problems. You'll work in three week sprints, contributing to both feature development and system design in an environment that encourages autonomy and ownership.

• Feature Development: From planning to production, you'll be hands‑on in building features that impact thousands of users.

• Tech Stack Proficiency: Work with Python on the backend, Dagster for orchestration, and manage data with Clickhouse and Cube.

• Cloud Experience: Build and maintain scalable systems in AWS, using a service‑oriented and event‑driven architecture.

• System Design and Architecture: Help define the structure of new services and ensure our platform is robust, flexible, and ready for growth.

You’ll be joining our Retailer Data team, which builds and supports the ingestion and processing of data coming from our retailer clients to keep Fashion Cloud’s smart products running smoothly. We focus on making sure key features work well for both users and other product teams.

Our responsibilities include:

• Data ingestion and management, processing retail data from many of our clients, keeping the data reliable, scalable and timely available;

• Metrics generation, metrics are generated on the ingested data to support clients with decision making through many of Fashion Cloud products;

• POS Data internal provision, handling POS data from retailers to be used by many other Fashion Cloud products;

• Scalable Data Architecture, building and maintaining systems that handle the complexity of retail data domain while ensuring high performance and reliability;

• Internal tooling creation, building tools that allows our product success managers to better support our clients.

We work closely with other product teams and help them empower their smart products by providing data and metrics.

You’re an experienced backend engineer who brings a deep understanding of building and maintaining production systems. With 5+ years of hands‑on experience, you’re fluent in Python, experienced handling big amounts of data and ideally having held a senior position before. You bring the following skills with you:

• Great proficiency in Python for backend development, with hands‑on experience with Django or other Backend frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI.

• Professional experience with orchestration tools such as Dagster, n8n or Airflow.

• Experience with queueing systems like RabbitMQ or AWS SQS.

• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), with hands‑on experience in services such as S3, ECS, Lambda, EC2 and RDS.

• Ability to design and implement scalable, robust, and fault‑tolerant system architectures.

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), with knowledge of tools like Terraform being a plus.

Some skills that can set you apart:

• Hands‑on experience with OLAP/OLAP DBMS such as Clickhouse, Snowflake or DuckDB and/or knowledge of Cube (old CubeJs).

• Experience working with Datadog for observability.

You’re a problem‑solver with strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a passion for building clean, maintainable systems.

You’re proactive, structured, and enjoy designing clean, maintainable systems as well working with data pipelines and handling data management related challenges. You value thoughtful communication and feedback, and you work well in a team that challenges and supports each other to grow.

• Amsterdam‑based role with 20 Days Remote Working Program.

• A great office - we stick to a hybrid work model (minimum 2 days per week working at the office) and enjoy flexibility between working face to face with the colleagues at the office and opportunity to work from home.

• A Macbook (13” or 15”) and peripherals (headphone, mouse, etc) equipment.

• Regular team activities - Christmas party, Trivia nights and even trips abroad to celebrate success together!

• Health is wealth - Sports membership discount + mental health support by nilo.health.

• Continuous education - 1000€ yearly development budget, books and free online tutorials from Pluralsight, Udemy and Egghead.

• Sabbatical option - one month for 3 years of Fashion Cloud and 3 months if you’ve been with us for 5 years.

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