Backend Engineer – SAP Commerce Cloud

Position Overview

The Backend Engineer builds and maintains the backend of a highly complex, 100% tailor-made SAP Commerce / SAP Commerce Cloud platform with extensive third-party and interface integration. The role is hands-on and works with strong AI support: an AI coding agent accelerates code generation while the engineer remains accountable for adapting, correcting, testing, securing, and owning the implementation. The role combines deep Java and SAP Commerce engineering with a strong focus on business processes, APIs, integration quality, and reliable cloud operation.

What you will do

• Build, extend, and maintain SAP Commerce / SAP Commerce Cloud services, extensions, business logic, and platform capabilities.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, tested, and maintainable backend features.
• Develop and consume APIs and integration services for SSC, VCPS, ERP, payment, search, tax, and other third-party services.
• Work hands-on with an AI coding agent, then review, adapt, refactor, debug, and harden generated code to meet quality, performance, and security standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues, analyze root causes, and optimize performance, stability, and observability in SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, solution architects, business stakeholders, and external partners.
• Contribute to engineering standards, automated testing, code reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement of AI-supported delivery.

What we require

• Minimum 4–6 years of hands-on backend development experience, ideally in e-commerce or digital commerce.
• Strong professional experience with Java, Spring, REST APIs, JSON, and service-oriented or event-driven architectures.
• Good understanding of catalog and product data, pricing, promotions, carts, orders, checkout, customer accounts, and inventory or availability.
• Experience integrating SAP Commerce with ERP, CPQ, payments, tax, search, middleware, and other enterprise systems; knowledge of API security, authentication, retries, error handling, and data mapping.
• Strong skills in automated testing, debugging, refactoring, secure coding, performance analysis, and code quality.
• Ability to own backend features end-to-end and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• English – Business fluency.

What we prefer

• Experience with SAP Commerce Cloud composable storefront integrations and OCC extension patterns.
• Practical SAP Commerce / SAP Commerce Cloud experience, including extensions, impex, FlexibleSearch, OCC APIs, cron jobs, processes, and Backoffice configuration.
• Experience with SAP Commerce Cloud deployment and operations concepts, including cloud environments, configuration management, build and release pipelines, monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, caching, search platforms such as Solr, and application observability tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Git-based development, code quality gates, containerization, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience working in agile product teams and international, highly integrative environments.

What we offer

• Best opportunities in a globally operating company valuing diversity, inclusion, sustainability and mutual trust
• Home office allowance
• 25 days paid annual leave
• Additional health insurance
• 102.26 EUR Food vouchers
• Public transportation card
• Multisport / Coolfit card
• Opportunity for flexibility with a hybrid working model
• Employee Assistance Program (Mental Health, Legal & Financial Counselling)
• Language training opportunity
• Brand new modern office premises in a class A Business building
• Employee referral program
• Fresh fruits in the office
• Training and mentorship programs
• Access to over 15,000 LinkedIn Learning courses to assist in your development

Who we are

We are at the heart of every place that matters. From automatic doors to cloud-based access management – as a leading global provider in the access solutions market for schools, banks, airports, hospitals, hotels, and many more, we enable seamless movement within secure, safe, and sustainable places. With over 160 years of experience and a focus on excellence and innovation, we offer exciting opportunities to grow in an environment where you can make a real impact. At dormakaba, you are encouraged to take initiative, develop your skills, and build your career alongside 16,000 experts worldwide who are setting industry standards every day.

Work in a place where you matter – apply now!