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JOB PURPOSE:
As a Technical Lead on our Enterprise and Store Technology team, you will leverage your prior leadership experience to act as a strategic team enabler. This role focuses on enforcing and enhancing robust software development processes rather than functioning as an individual contributor. You will serve as the primary technical interface for our development team to ensure seamless synchronization. Your core responsibilities include driving the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the development team, with a relentless focus on high-quality code output, architectural design integrity, and the on-time delivery of project milestones. You will conduct rigorous code reviews, mentor engineers, and oversee end-to-end user acceptance testing to manage overall quality. To maintain engineering standards and architectural integrity, you can expect to spend approximately 40-50% of your time reading or writing code.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
JOB PURPOSE:
As a Technical Lead on our Enterprise and Store Technology team, you will leverage your prior leadership experience to act as a strategic team enabler. This role focuses on enforcing and enhancing robust software development processes rather than functioning as an individual contributor. You will serve as the primary technical interface for our development team to ensure seamless synchronization. Your core responsibilities include driving the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the development team, with a relentless focus on high-quality code output, architectural design integrity, and the on-time delivery of project milestones. You will conduct rigorous code reviews, mentor engineers, and oversee end-to-end user acceptance testing to manage overall quality. To maintain engineering standards and architectural integrity, you can expect to spend approximately 40-50% of your time reading or writing code.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure Code Quality and Performance: Responsible for conducting thorough code reviews, resolving bugs, and optimizing the application to ensure it meets performance, stability, and security standards.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Accountable for working closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and backend engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot and Problem-Solve: Responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues and production bugs in a timely and effective manner.
- Mentorship and Guidance: Accountable for mentoring junior developers, sharing knowledge of best practices, and helping to foster a strong development culture.
- Project and Technical Ownership: Takes full technical ownership of work, from initial architectural design through deployment and maintenance, ensuring high-quality results and meeting project timelines.
- Proficient in full-stack development skills to guide our technical evolution, including frontend (e.g., React, or Angular) and backend (e.g., Node.js, Java, or Python) development.
- Takes ownership of the full software development life cycle, from initial design through deployment, ensuring high-quality results and meeting project timelines.
- Advanced collaboration skills to work effectively with product managers, designers, and other non-technical stakeholders.
- Shares responsibility for facilitating clear communication between the internal team and the vendor, resolving technical dependencies and integration issues.
- The ability to effectively collaborate with a diverse team and provide clear, constructive guidance to junior developers, elevating the skills and performance of the entire team.
- Proficient in agile methodologies and leveraging AI tools (such as GitHub Copilot) to accelerate code generation, automate unit testing and streamline documentation without compromising security or architectural integrity.
- Resourceful and systematic problem-solver, capable of quickly diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues under pressure.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum of 12 years of overall experience building complex applications, highly available systems, and integrating third party API's
- Minimum of 2 years leading a team
- 5 years of micro service development experience in an enterprise environment.
- 3 years of experience with React, NodeJS, serverless technologies, and SOA (REST/JSON). Typescript a plus. Advanced knowledge of SQL against a relational database
- Expert in cloud architecture and tools, especially AWS. Certification preferred.
- Advanced experience with source control tools (GIT or similar) and defect tracking systems required
- Experience with application performance monitoring and testing tools
- A strong business acumen with basic knowledge of Retail principles
- This is a full-time, on-site role requiring 5 days per week in the office.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.