Senior Software Engineer - Core Commerce Platform Role: Basket & Checkout Tech Lead

Sits within the Core Commerce Platform organisation, which delivers omnichannel commerce capabilities that power the purchase journey, inventory availability, delivery promise, order processing and fulfilment, and post-purchase experiences across channels. The organisation ensures products are available to buy, orders can be fulfilled reliably, and commitments made to consumers are delivered consistently through a portfolio of commerce platform capabilities. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services and omni-channel capabilities that power Basket, Cart, Pricing, Promotions, and Checkout experiences across digital commerce channels.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable services supporting Basket Management, Cart Operations, Pricing, Promotions, and Checkout capabilities.
• Build and enhance API-first, event-driven, and SFCC-integrated solutions that enable seamless cart experiences, real-time pricing, promotion qualification, inventory validation, and checkout orchestration.
• Support the delivery of seamless customer shopping and purchase experiences by ensuring basket, cart, pricing, and checkout workflows operate consistently across channels, devices, and regions.
• Integrate SFCC basket and checkout services with OMS, Commerce Platforms, ERP, inventory, customer, product, and fulfilment systems to enable seamless end-to-end commerce experiences.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product teams to deliver roadmap commitments.
• Drive technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions within the team.
• Ensure applications and services are production-ready through effective observability, monitoring, performance optimisation, reliability engineering, and operational readiness practices.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and help establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Utilise AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development and strengthen code quality.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating scalable, highly available, customer-facing digital commerce platforms.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, data structures and algorithms, with practical experience applying them to real-world use cases.
• Expertise in backend engineering, API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and scalable integration patterns using Java, Spring Boot and related frameworks.
• Working knowledge of React and modern frontend development practices sufficient to contribute to customer-facing applications.
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering and performance optimisation.
• Experience designing and implementing guest checkout, authenticated checkout, saved baskets, cart merge, multi-shipment, Click & Collect, and other omni-channel checkout journeys.
• Experience designing and building high-throughput, low-latency services supporting basket operations, pricing, promotions, inventory validation, shipping selection, and checkout orchestration.
• Experience designing graceful degradation and fallback mechanisms that help sustain basket and checkout journeys during downstream service disruptions.
• Strong ability to mentor engineers, review integration designs, conduct code reviews, and drive sound technical decisions and engineering standards.
• Experience using coding agents, LLMs, or AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery, testing, code quality, and developer productivity.

• Hands-on experience in building basket and checkout capabilities in SFCC.

PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel, and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf, and stichd, operates in 120+ countries, and has around 22,000 employees worldwide. PUMA looks for SPEED & SPIRIT in candidates, defined by values that inspire the company to be driven in performance, vibrant in sporting legacy, and together in team spirit, while letting individual talent and experience shine.