Lead Engineer, Software (Backend)

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join our team responsible for digital application portfolio that includes eCommerce shopping experience, personalized recommendations, content management system, search, online returns, and retail POS commerce solutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our backend applications written in Typescript and Python, leveraging cloud platforms like AWS and Azure and backend-as-a-services like Algolia.

You will be working closely with our ERP integration team, data engineering team and marketing / eCommerce team to ensure scalability of our architecture and accuracy of data across systems, as well as frontend engineers to design, build & maintain flexible APIs.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to :

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain scalable solutions that require working with multiple product lines and integrations with internal and external systems
• Work closely with frontend engineers to build and maintain a standardized and flexible API for frontend applications
• Design, implement and enforce holistic data schema across platforms and systems
• Work with data engineering team to ensure accurate reporting
• Assist with troubleshooting and solving technical issues within and across teams (, ERP integration)
• Ensure high quality and maintainable code through code reviews, testing, and other best practices
• Mentor senior and junior engineers
• Pair effectively with other engineers to deliver high-quality code
• Practice engineering culture by example, evangelizing best practices like test-driven development and refactoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable & performant solutions for complex business problems.
• 5+ years of experience with scripting languages like Typescript or Python.
• Experience with Shopify Admin GraphQL / REST APIs and general familiarity with eCommerce industry standards and trends
• Experience consuming and building GraphQL and RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding and commitment to software engineering principles / processes (, Agile, Waterfall, TDD, DevOps, CI / CD) and continuous improvement through measurement
• Proven experience architecting and delivering scalable, secure, and performant solutions for complex business problems
• Ability to effectively communicate technical knowledge with peers
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Extensive experience working with third-party APIs
• Preferred experience working with CDPs, particularly for customer data activation; experience with GDPR is a plus
• Experience with all aspects of software development lifecycle from planning and design to implementation, deployment, and on-going maintenance
• Experience with designing & writing unit tests as a way of maintaining high quality in your code
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-driven and excellent organizational skills to manage priorities
• Experience in managing & communicating risks / status upward & outward
• Experience working within fast paced rapidly growing company
• Experience in building partnerships and working collaboratively across the organization

Additional Information

Pay Range : $160,000-$185,000 / yr

Benefits :

• Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Discount
• 401(k)
30+ days ago