Locum Backend Game Developer Jobs in Chicago, IL

See What We’re All About

As the fastest-growing distributor of restaurant equipment, HVAC and residential appliance parts, we like to do things a little differently. First, you need to understand and demonstrate our Core Values with safety being your first priority. That’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list!

Do you have a genius-level knowledge of original equipment manufacturer parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds. That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc. 5000 list 15 years in a row and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times. We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for the last four years.

If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today!

Perks

• Parts Town Pride – check out our virtual tour and culture!
• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus
• Hybrid work schedule
• Team member appreciation events and recognition programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Monthly IT stipend
• Casual dress code
• On-demand pay options: Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses
• All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k/401k match, employee assistance programs and time away – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

The Job at a Glance

As a Senior Engineer – Backend (SAP CC), you will be the master chef in our high-tech kitchen of backend architecture! You will design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performing backend systems that power our platforms. You’ll work on cloud-native architectures, microservices, and integration strategies while ensuring disaster recovery, monitoring, and performance optimization. This role is all about driving best-in-class backend practices, collaborating across teams, and delivering solutions that keep our systems reliable, efficient, and ready for growth. Rady to turn complex tech into backend brilliance? Let’s get cooking! 

A Typical Day

Help with and Implement the Backend Architectural Artifacts

• Platform level systems and services (PIM, ERP, Commerce, CMS, Marketing etc), their relationships and interconnectivity
• Implementation level architecture for secure, cloud-native, scalable & performant backend services (monoliths, microservices, modularization)
• Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records

Support the delivery and maintenance of our Backend Engineering Policies, Procedures and Standards

• CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops, etc
• Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement
• Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)

Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices

• Drive Ecommerce and Parts Town wide projects
• Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning capabilities
• Logging strategies for efficient root cause analysis and low MTTR’s
• Monitoring, Alerting and on-call policies
• Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies
• Ongoing metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc)

Drive best in class Backend strategies

• Our customers need to love what we do for them
• Work across disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Backend discipline
• Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend practices across the engineering teams

To Land This Opportunity

• You have 5+ years of relevant industry experience and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• You have extensive ecommerce experience with exposure and usage of major ecommerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts, etc)
• You are an expert in backend technologies such as SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL – you know all ins and outs and how to power it through
• You are advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and methodologies) and utilize industry leading tooling for that (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.io and etc.)
• You are proficient in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others and you have deep understanding of cloud native methodologies
• You integrate containerization technologies in your day-to-day such as Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), as well as container registries and artifact tools such as Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR
• You are hands-on with vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic, Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns
• You speak fluent API! REST, GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles with best practices and tooling such as Pub/Sub, Kafka and others – you are on a roll and ready to jam!
• You have experience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, etc
• You have a strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe’s, and other Authz and Authn, you share best practices and tooling with everyone!
• You’ve got serious coding superpowers in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS, etc
• You have knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
• You’re an all-star communicator and are proficient in English (both written and verbal)
• You have a quality, high speed internet connection at home

About Your Future Team

The Ecommerce team is a fast-growing group that embraces the rapid change that comes with incredible growth. We bring our whole selves to work each day - personality and all - in true Parts Town style.

At Parts Town, we value transparency and are committed to ensuring our