Staff Engineer - Golang / PHP

About us 

Ankorstore exists to help independent brands and retailers thrive by making wholesale simpler, faster, and more profitable.

We’re building the infrastructure that powers modern wholesale for brands — from getting discovered by the right retailers to ordering, logistics, and financing — so both sides can work together on better, more sustainable terms.

As a Staff Engineer at Ankorstore, you are one of the most senior technical contributors in the company. You will drive architectural thinking at squad level while contributing directly to key initiatives.

Reporting directly to the VP Product & Tech, you act as:

• A technical partner to leadership, shaping the architectural vision.

• An embedded expert in squads, guiding complex technical decisions and unlocking execution.

• A multiplier for the whole engineering organisation, raising technical quality and helping teams adopt modern patterns.

You influence at org-level through clarity, expertise, and deep problem-solving. You help squads build systems that align with our long-term modular platform strategy to bring the most value to our customers.

This role asks for strong ownership, broad impact, and the ability to move seamlessly from hands-on work to architectural guidance.

Main Responsibilities :

• Architecture & System Design :

  • Own key architectural decisions inside one or several domains, ensuring alignment with Ankorstore’s tech vision.

  • Translate the long-term architecture strategy into practical designs that squads can execute.

  • Drive the adoption of modular, API-first, event-driven, and data-centric design patterns.

  • Participate in design reviews and challenge proposals with constructive, high-level technical judgment.

• Execution & Delivery :

  • Contribute hands-on to complex technical components, refactors, and mission-critical projects.

  • Debug and resolve systemic issues across services, infrastructure, and data flows.

  • Champion performance, scalability, and reliability across squads.

• Technical Leadership :

  • Coach Senior Engineers and elevate their architectural thinking.

  • Promote best engineering practices, raising the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and documentation.

• Cross-Functional Alignment :

  • Partner with Product, Data, and Platform leaders to build coherent solutions.

  • Ensure technical solutions directly support our brand-first OS strategy and services expansion.

• Innovation & Continuous Improvement :

  • Explore technologies (AI integration, event-driven workflows, platformization trends) and push prototypes that create leverage.

  • Identify long-term opportunities to improve foundations and reduce complexity.

Tech stack :

• Back-end: PHP 8.3, Laravel 10, Golang

• Front-end: Vue 2/3, Nuxt 3/4, Typescript, Vuex / Pinia, sass, postcss, Vite Storybook, Chromatic, Tailwind

• QA: Vitest, Jest, Cypress

• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, MySQL, Redis

• Tools: Github, CircleCI, Sentry, Notion, Graphana, Docker, Jira, Figma

• IA: MCP and agent home-made

Preferred Experience :

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in Staff+, Tech Lead, or equivalent senior IC roles.

• Proven ability to design, evolve, and scale complex distributed systems.

• Experience driving architectural initiatives inside fast-paced product organisations.

• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and domain modeling.

• Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of Ankorstore’s core backend languages (PHP, Golang).

• Demonstrated influence across multiple teams without formal authority.

• Excellent communication skills—able to simplify and explain architecture to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Comfortable working in English.

Location : Germany. We are a remote-friendly company, and you will have a full remote contract in Germany.

Learning more about Ankorstore :

• Look around and visit our website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Welcome to the Jungle

• Read about us in the media: How to build a 2 billion unicorn in under 3 years, Rewild Retail, Ankorstore is shaping the shopping of the future, Mary Portas & Ankorstore

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.