About us 

Ankorstore is on a mission to rewild retail !

With decades of experience in retail and building marketplaces, in 2019 the Ankorstore founding team knew it was time to create a global wholesale solution – one that swings the balance in favour of independents and restores retail to its natural order !

They’ve created a new ecosystem that harnesses the power of modern technology to create a mutually beneficial community that reinvents the way brands and retailers work together. As a result, wild independents can thrive.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Ankorstore, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our B2B marketplace and service offering connecting brands with retailers. 

You'll work within a multidisciplinary team composed of a core engineering team, the Product Manager, Engineering Manager, UX Designer to solve challenging problems that help our users succeed in their businesses.

Main Responsibilities

As part of the squad your responsibilities will include :

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and implement solutions

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services

• Contribute to the evolution of our architecture

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code with appropriate test coverage

• Embrace new technologies such as AI when designing solutions

• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues across the platform

• Optimize application performance and ensure scalability

• Participate in code reviews and mentor more junior team members

• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing

• Support the on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability

• Continuously improve development practices and processes

Tech stack

• Front-end: Vue.js, Typescript, Vuex, sass, webpack

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

• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, MySQL, Redis

• Tools: Github, CircleCI, Sentry, Notion

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend web development

• Strong proficiency in at least one of our core languages: PHP or Golang

• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture

• Solid understanding of database design and optimization (MySQL)

• Experience with message queuing systems

• Knowledge of search technologies (Elasticsearch)

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams

• Commitment to writing maintainable, tested code

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Benefits/Perks

At Ankorstore we offer a versatile range of benefits to support employees' well-being and work-life balance, fostering personal growth within an innovative and adaptable work environment.

• We are a remote-friendly company, and you will have an hybrid contract, based in Paris

• All of our employees are automatically covered by Health Insurance & Life Insurance. Our Health Insurance (Mutuelle) and Life Insurance (Prévoyance) are SideCare

• We have partnered with Swile to provide you with meal vouchers

• You will have access to Leeto a platform that provides you with exclusive discounts, cultural activities, holiday vouchers and more

• Paid leaves + RTT

• Modern offices located in Paris (Opéra), providing a vibrant and inspiring work environment

• Sana Labs, a dynamic learning platform offering engaging, customised training experiences and fostering skills development across the entire organisation

• ...

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 million 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.