Senior Principal Backend Engineer - GraphQL & Shopify
Summary
Senior Principal Backend Engineer at Spoonflower (part of Shutterfly) designing and evolving core backend services for a commerce platform — owning GraphQL federation, Shopify integrations, and make-to-order fulfillment flows — while mentoring engineers, driving architecture, and ensuring observability and incident readiness in distributed systems.
Spoonflower, part of the Shutterfly family, seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to design and evolve core backend services powering our commerce platform. You will own GraphQL federation, Shopify integrations, and make-to-order fulfillment flows, partnering across teams to improve reliability and scalability.
You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure observability and incident readiness in a distributed system environment.