About This Role

We are looking for a proactive and independent Mid-Level Software Engineer with strong backend engineering skills in Java to join our engineering team. In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of features across our Java-based microservices platform, contribute to the full product lifecycle, and be an active AI power user — leveraging modern AI coding agents to deliver high-quality software at velocity. You will work with a collaborative, globally distributed team of engineers passionate about building scalable commerce solutions.

About Kibo Commerce

Kibo Commerce is a composable digital commerce platform for B2C, D2C and B2B organizations who want to simplify the complexity in their businesses and deliver modern customer experiences. We are the only modular, modern commerce platform that supports experiences spanning eCommerce, Order Management, and Subscriptions. Merchants like Zwilling, Ace Hardware, Jelly Belly, and Francesca’s trust Kibo to bring simplicity and sophistication to commerce operations and deliver experiences that drive value.

Kibo’s expertise and cutting-edge innovation has been recognized by Forrester, Gartner, Internet Retailer, and TrustRadius. By joining Kibo, you will be part of a team of Kibonauts all over the world in a remote-friendly environment, tackling challenges together with trust, a growth mindset, and customer obsession.

What You’ll Do

• Feature Ownership: Independently design and implement scalable, resilient microservices using Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem, following established architectural goals and product objectives.
• AI Coding Assistants: Systematically use AI coding agents (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to optimize development velocity, automate testing, and assist in complex refactoring. You are expected to stay current on emerging AI methodologies and tools, and to demonstrate how AI meaningfully increases your output and code quality.
• Agile Collaboration: Work within Agile software lifecycle methodologies including daily standups, sprint planning, code demonstrations, and retrospectives. Collaborate across product management, UX, QA, support, and professional services teams through the full product lifecycle.
• Database & Performance: Architect efficient schemas across both relational (MySQL) and document-oriented (MongoDB) databases. Implement advanced caching and state management strategies using Redis to ensure high-throughput performance.
• API & Integration Development: Build and maintain RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture. Design event-driven integrations to ensure system decoupling, reliability, and observability at scale.
• Code Quality & Mentorship: Lead by example with clean, well-tested, maintainable code. Participate in and lead peer code reviews. Assist in onboarding and guiding earlier-career engineers.
• Testing & Quality: Apply test-driven development (TDD) practices. Write and maintain unit, integration, and performance tests to fully test and regress software.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify system bottlenecks, propose architectural improvements, and break down complex requirements into well-scoped, independent development tasks.

Skills & Requirements

What You’ll Need

• Java & Spring Proficiency: 4–6 years of professional experience in backend software development with Java, Spring Boot, Spring framework, and JPA/Hibernate.
• AI Expertise: Demonstrated daily usage of AI tools for coding, debugging, and documentation. You should be able to show how AI tools materially increase your throughput and code quality.
• Microservices Architecture: Solid experience designing and working in a microservices environment, including RESTful API design and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Database Experience: Hands-on experience with both relational databases (MySQL or equivalent) and document stores (MongoDB). Comfort writing efficient queries and designing schemas for scale.
• Testing: Strong proficiency in TDD and writing automated unit and integration tests using JUnit or equivalent frameworks.
• DevOps & Tooling: Good working knowledge of Git, JIRA, and CI/CD workflows. Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Production Troubleshooting: Proven experience troubleshooting and resolving real-world production issues, demonstrating strong accountability for deployed code and live system stability.
• Independent Execution: Proven ability to take a feature from concept to production with minimal supervision, while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Mindset: Passionate about learning new technologies, improving craft, and sharing knowledge within the team.

Preferred Skills (“The Plus Factors”)

• Experience working with AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, or equivalent cloud services).
• Exposure to Python and tools like Solr or Kibana.
• Experience with front-end technologies such as Angular or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Familiarity with workflow automation platforms such as n8n or orchestration frameworks like LangChain.
• Experience with Redis or other distributed caching/message brokering technologies.

Why Kibo Commerce?

• Technology Leadership: We work at the bleeding edge of the Java and distributed systems ecosystem.
• AI-First Culture: We empower our engineers with the best AI tools and expect them to be used daily to maximize impact and velocity.
• Autonomy: High level of trust and ownership over your modules and services, with minimal bureaucracy.
• Growth: A clear path toward Senior and Staff Engineer roles for those who demonstrate technical excellence and proactive leadership.
• Collaboration: Passionate, high-achieving teammates excited to help you grow and succeed.

Kibo Perks

• Flexible schedule and hybrid work setting
• Paid company holidays and global volunteer holiday
• Generous health, wellness, benefits, and time away programs
• Commitment to individual growth and development and opportunity for internal mobility
• Company-sponsored events and other activities

At Kibo we celebrate and support all differences. Kibo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, and veteran status.