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Co-founder at Medusa
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Comment · 4 years ago
Medusa | Fullstack Eng. (Dev. Exp. team) | Remote (US-east / EU) | Full time
Medusa is an API-first open-source commerce engine. We are creating the foundational building blocks that can be composed to create any and amazing digital commerce experiences.
As an open-source company, having an engaged community is key. If you are interested in building exceptional developer experiences while engaging with the community for feedback and input, this might be for you.
Apply at [email protected] with subject title "Hackernews job post"
Comment · 4 years ago
Medusa - open-source Shopify alternative (https://www.medusajs.com) | Senior Software Engineer | Lead Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time
The last decade has seen hyper-growth in the digital commerce space, and selling online is no longer just about having a webshop. New technologies enable merchants to deliver much more sophisticated experiences, iterate much faster on new features, and leverage a large variety of sales channels (SoMe, Apps, ChatBots, etc.). Unfortunately, existing platforms with monolithic architectures are too rigid to support this new wave of commerce technologies. This is where Medusa comes in.
Medusa is the open-source alternative to Shopify. With Medusa, you get a robust set of features supporting all conventional commerce operations. What sets us apart is our composable architecture allowing merchants to build out fantastic customer experiences using best-in-breed services and add custom functionality to fit the exact needs of their business without compromising on the scalability of the setup.
We've just raised a large seed round and are looking for great people to join our growth journey.
Tech stack: Node.js (TypeScript), Next.js, Gatsby, Postgres, Redis
Please apply to [email protected] on mail with subject: HackerNews or reach out to me on Discord.
Thanks!
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks! Just corrected it :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Haven't investigated deploying Medusa to a serverless environment yet. We use background workers to process jobs from a Bull queue and those do not necessarily finish within the lifetime of a request. To allow for a serverless setup, we would need to handle these jobs differently, so that they can be carried out even though the servers scale to zero.
Comment · 5 years ago
We currently don't support it out-of-the-box, but a community member is building a custom multi-tenant solution on top of Medusa essentially using the engine as building blocks.
Our architecture allows you to create custom entities, services and endpoints in your own Node.js project. Additionally, we use Avilix for dependency injection which allows you to use all services across all parts of the system; core, plugins, your custom project. In combination, you are provided with the primitives that can handle commerce business logic in almost any type of project.