Developer tooling
at Shopware.
I work on Shopware Build, an internal platform that provides ready-to-use Shopware environments. It began as a side project of mine and grew into the work I do full time.
What the work looks like
The project covers the whole stack, which is exactly what makes it interesting to me. In any given week I might be writing backend services in C# and .NET, building interface components in Blazor, or working on the Linux systems underneath.
Owning something end to end changes how you build it. There is nobody to hand a problem to, so every decision has to be one I can still defend six months later. That has taught me more about architecture than any tutorial could.
My background in support helps here more than I expected. Having spent years on the other side of the problem, I have a decent instinct for which things are worth building and which ones only sound important.
The part I like most
Beyond its internal use, the platform supports education. Schools and universities can teach e-commerce on a real system rather than a simplified example, which lowers the barrier for anyone wanting to learn the technology.
That is what makes the work meaningful to me. Students who learn on Shopware today become the professionals who build with it tomorrow, and being a small part of that is more satisfying than any technical detail I could put on this page.
This is what I like about software engineering: solving a real problem, making someone else's work easier, and being able to point at something that exists because you built it.
Curious how I got here?
The full story runs from a butcher's counter to an engineering team, with every salary figure along the way.