(Senior) Backend Engineer (m/w/d)

The future looks like you

With over 1,300 stores in 17 European countries and more than 25,000 employees, C&A is one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers. Every day, C&A welcomes millions of visitors to its stores in Europe and to its online shop. Our Engineers are responsible for building and maintaining the components or integrations of our software products. The owner of this position is passionate about developing software and is experienced with modern software technologies and frameworks. Engineers are the backbone of the C&A organization, creating and developing the tools needed for the business units to meet their goals.

At C&A we are driven by our values and we believe that affordable and high-quality fashion is not contradictory to caring for people & the planet, we are always forward thinking and acting to develop our business and innovate the industry. This is your chance to join the C&A team as (Senior) Backend Engineer!

Our Digital & Consumer domain is one of eight tech domains within C&A and shaped around 150 IT- and Design-peers. We are developing creative and innovative in-house IT solutions for our three customer-centric platforms: our iOS and Android applications, as well as the C&A web shop.We are seeking a (Senior) Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale the core systems behind our software products. In this role, you will own backend architecture and play a key role in shaping our API design, event-driven systems, and integration layers.

Your responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, with a strong focus on system architecture and integration layers
• Support and evolve event-driven and streaming architectures, including data pipelines and asynchronous communication
• Shape and maintain cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code practices in collaboration with platform and DevOps teams
• Drive architectural decisions across teams, ensuring systems are reliable, observable, and aligned with long-term technical strategy
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, guiding engineers on system design, scalability, and performance
• Champion engineering best practices across code quality, CI/CD, and automation.

What you bring

• Senior-level experience building backend systems in Java, with strong knowledge of modern frameworks (Spring Boot; Micronaut or Quarkus)
• Proven ability to design scalable, distributed, and event-driven architectures, including streaming systems (Kafka, Pulsar, or similar)
• Good understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, API design, microservices, and data stores (SQL and NoSQL)
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure‑as‑code (AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform), CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
• Great communication skills, with a mindset of ownership and continuous improvement

What we offer

This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you’ll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision. As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe’s most recognizable retail brands, you will also enjoy:

• Countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy
• A flexible hybrid work environment
• An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores
• An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment
• A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture

C&A fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board that is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization where everyone can become their best self. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply. Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply and help us build an inclusive community.