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Through an unwavering commitment to innovation and premium craftsmanship, Callaway designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance golf clubs, golf balls, apparel, bags, and other accessories-setting the standard for performance in the game of golf.\nOur Mission: To create demonstrably superior and pleasingly different products powered by innovative technology and premium craftsmanship enabling golfers of all abilities to play their best and find more joy in the game.\nOur company is a blend of experience and diverse backgrounds, and together we look to leave the past behind while moving the game forward. For more information, please visit https://www.callawaygolf.com\nROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nThe Software Engineer is accountable for the following responsibilities:\nDesign, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, workflows, integrations, and APIs supporting commerce applications.\nDevelop services primarily using C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, and TypeScript/Node.js based on platform and business needs.\nApply object-oriented design and established software engineering principles to create maintainable, scalable, and testable systems.\nBuild services supporting order management, inventory, payments, tax, loyalty, customer identity, product data, and related commerce capabilities.\nExtend and integrate modular headless commerce platforms such as Medusa, and design middleware and backend-for-frontend layers connecting storefronts, commerce engines, and downstream services.\nDefine clear API contracts using REST, OpenAPI, and related tools so frontend and backend teams can develop independently.\nIntegrate payment and tax platforms, including transaction flows for authorization, capture, refund, void, tokenization, idempotency, reconciliation, checkout, orders, and returns.\nBuild reliable integrations and data pipelines between commerce systems and enterprise platforms such as SAP and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.\nWork with product, pricing, catalog, customer, order, and inventory data at scale while protecting data integrity.\nParticipate in platform and service migrations, including field mapping, validation, idempotent processing, reconciliation, cutover planning, and rollback preparation.\nDesign relational database schemas, develop migrations, and troubleshoot query and application performance.\nBuild automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests.\nDeploy and operate services using containers, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, primarily within Microsoft Azure.\nTroubleshoot production issues across application, API, database, integration, and infrastructure boundaries, and contribute to incident response and root-cause analysis.\nReduce unnecessary complexity and repetitive work by improving architecture, documentation, tooling, guardrails, and automation.\nPartner with frontend engineers, product teams, business stakeholders, enterprise technology teams, and external vendors to define requirements, communicate trade-offs, and deliver integrated solutions.\nAI-FIRST ENGINEERING EXPECTATIONS\nUse AI agents to analyze unfamiliar codebases, legacy systems, APIs, schemas, logs, and technical documentation before implementation begins.\nUse AI during design and planning to explore architecture options, identify risks, challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and develop implementation plans with dependencies, sequencing, testing, migration, acceptance criteria, and rollback considerations.\nBreak complex initiatives into clearly scoped tasks and use coding agents for meaningful implementation work, including multi-file changes, refactoring, API development, data mapping, automated testing, documentation, and repetitive engineering activities.\nProvide AI agents with appropriate context, constraints, architecture guidance, security requirements, examples, and acceptance criteria.\nCritically review, run, test, inspect, and validate AI-generated designs and code; require iteration when results do not meet engineering or production standards.\nUse AI to accelerate debugging through analysis of logs, traces, production behavior, code paths, and historical implementations.\nCoordinate specialized agents when appropriate for backend architecture, database design, security, API review, migration analysis, and test automation.\nImprove repositories and development environments so engineers and AI agents can work effectively through clear documentation, project instructions, tests, tooling, and guardrails.\nContinuously identify manual or repetitive work that can be safely delegated, automated, or supported by AI while retaining responsibility for the final outcome.\nTECHNICAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)\nStrong knowledge of object-oriented programming, API design, data structures, concurrency, error handling, software design principles, and secure development practices.\nStrong knowledge of at least one object-oriented backend ecosystem, preferably C#/.NET or Java/Spring Boot, with the ability and willingness to work across both.\nWorking knowledge of TypeScript/Node.js, REST, OpenAPI, middleware, integration patterns, and backend-for-frontend architecture.\nWorking knowledge of relational database design and development using SQL Server or PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, normalization, and query troubleshooting.\nWorking knowledge of Git, automated testing, containers, CI/CD, observability, and cloud infrastructure, preferably Microsoft Azure.\nKnowledge of distributed-system reliability concepts such as retries, idempotency, reconciliation, transaction integrity, fault handling, and secure data exchange.\nPractical knowledge of modern AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar coding agents.\nSkills & Abilities\nAbility to translate business and technical requirements into secure, reliable, maintainable, and scalable software solutions.\nAbility to investigate ambiguous problems systematically and diagnose issues spanning applications, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.\nAbility to create implementation plans, define acceptance criteria, estimate work, identify dependencies, and communicate technical risks and trade-offs.\nAbility to critically evaluate AI-generated architecture and code and remain accountable for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and design.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, collaborate across technical and nontechnical teams, and deliver results in an environment that includes modern cloud services and legacy platforms.\nAbility to document systems, decisions, operating procedures, and previously undocumented technical knowledge clearly.\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience required.\nMinimum four years of professional software engineering experience building production applications, backend services, or enterprise integrations required.\nExperience building REST APIs, services, middleware, or integration layers and working with relational databases required.\nExperience developing automated tests and using Git and modern CI/CD practices required.\nDemonstrated hands-on use of modern AI development tools for analysis, planning, implementation, debugging, testing, documentation, or refactoring required.\nExperience with eCommerce, order management, payments, inventory, SAP integrations, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, headless commerce, Azure, Docker, or Kubernetes preferred.\nExperience migrating functionality from legacy or monolithic platforms and building reliable high-volume integrations preferred.\nDISCLAIMER\nThis job description indicates, in general terms, the type and level of work performed as well as the typical responsibilities of employees in this classification, and it may be changed by management at any time. Other duties may also apply. Nothing in this position description changes the at-will employment relationship existing between the Company and its employees. Distribution of this item outside of the Company without an authorized release is a violation of Company policy.\nDE&I and EEOC:\nInclusion & Diversity: As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, supporting them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.\nIf your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diverse backgrounds and experiences make for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply. We look forward to learning more about you.\nARE YOU READY TO MAKE THE TURN? 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