Shopify Technical Lead / Senior Backend Engineer (Chennai)

About the Role We are looking for a Shopify Technical Lead Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Mindera You ll play a key role in architecting and building scalable APIs that integrate with Shopify and related e-commerce systems while guiding the engineering team on best practices design principles and delivery excellence This is not a typical front-end Shopify theme development role it s a backend-focused architecture and integration position where you ll shape how our systems interact with Shopify s APIs handle data exchange and ensure performance security and maintainability at scale You ll collaborate closely with product teams solution architects and engineering peers to design domain-driven event-driven systems that power large-scale commerce experiences Key Responsibilities Lead the design and development of backend systems that integrate with Shopify using Java Micronaut and RESTful APIs Define API contracts and ensure compliance with OpenAPI AsyncAPI specifications Architect and build event-driven integrations leveraging Kafka and asynchronous messaging patterns Establish engineering standards including linting formatting security and code quality practices Guide and mentor engineers in software architecture clean code and delivery excellence Collaborate with product and DevOps teams to enable scalable deployments observability and resilience Implement and enforce test automation including unit contract and integration testing strategies Contribute to the creation of reusable components such as validators interceptors and shared libraries Drive continuous improvement through code reviews technical documentation and governance Requirements Core Technical Skills Backend Development Java preferably Micronaut Spring Boot experience also valued Gradle REST Kafka scaffolding Service monitoring and health checks API Design Integration OpenAPI AsyncAPI specification-driven design Deep understanding of Shopify APIs Admin Storefront GraphQL Integration with external systems inventory pricing catalog and order management Testing Quality Strong focus on testing principles unit mock and contract testing Test data generation code coverage analysis and CI CD integration Emphasis on clean maintainable and well-reviewed code Architecture Patterns Domain-Driven Design DDD and Event-Driven Architecture EDA Designing reusable components e g Catalogue Validator Observability error handling and fault-tolerant microservices Dev Standards Governance Code linting formatting and static analysis tools Secure coding and compliance with internal governance standards Code documentation and best-practice enforcement Desirable Skills Experience with Shopify Plus custom app development and API orchestration Exposure to cloud environments AWS Azure and containerized deployments Docker Kubernetes Familiarity with CI CD pipelines GitHub Actions Jenkins Prior experience mentoring small engineering teams and influencing architecture decisions Understanding of observability Grafana Prometheus and alerting tools PagerDuty New Relic We d love to get to know you better Benefits We Offer Fun happy and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self organisation Work with large scale systems powering global businesses Competitive salary and benefits About Mindera At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of with people we love Software Engineering Applications including Web and Mobile are at the core of what we do at Mindera We partner with our clients to understand their product and deliver high performance resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world You get to work with a bunch of great people where the whole team owns the project together Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude We encourage our colleagues to take risks make decisions work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile Lean and team-oriented environment Follow our Linkedln page - Check ot our Blog and our Handbook Our offices are located Aveiro Portugal Porto Portugal Leicester UK San Diego USA San Francisco USA Chennai India Bengaluru India About the Role We are looking for a Shopify Technical Lead Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Mindera You ll play a key role in architecting and building scalable APIs that integrate with Shopify and related e-commerce systems while guiding the engineering team on best practices design principles and delivery excellence This is not a typical front-end Shopify theme development role it s a backend-focused architecture and integration position where you ll shape how our systems interact with Shopify s APIs handle data exchange and ensure performance security and maintainability at scale You ll collaborate closely with product teams solution architects and engineering peers to desig