Lead Engineer

ABOUT the role:

LEAD ENGINEER The Lead Developer is pivotal to the global growth ambitions and in helping set the technical direction in order to deliver a world-leading and engaging customer experience.
This role is responsible for the technical development of the new decoupled ecommerce platform, leading a small team of developers and working closely with the product manager and designer as they continue to build their internal capabilities into a world-class tech team

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Set the technical vision and engineering roadmap; including quarterly OKRs in coordination with the tech team, product, and business stakeholders.
• Lead and drive delivery, providing visibility of progress and performance
• Grow and lead our engineering team while developing their careers and technical capabilities
• Drive technical excellence by deploying best-in-class coding practices, design philosophies, and engineering methodologies
• Champion a focus on software qualities such as testability, security, scalability, operability etc
• Evaluate new tools and technologies to continue to improve, enrich the overall customer experience
• Define and implement an effective, transparent and repeatable process for quality assurance across all areas of the organisation including product development

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE  
 
Experience
 
    

• Extensive front and back-end software engineering experience (7+ years) preferably within the ecommerce industry
• Firm understanding of headless + decoupled CMS architecture
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary product team, balancing engineering requirements with the needs of the customer aligning to business outcomes
• Extensive experience with React, Node.js and PHP
• Experience with APIs - Design and code new RESTful APIs that support both web and programmatic calls
• Familiar with any RDMS (MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, etc) type database

         
Skills and Knowledge
 
    

• Ability to operate in a hands-on capacity as well as strategic long-term planning and team management
• Ability to lead the technical team and drive high levels of engagement and performance
• Understanding of fundamental engineering concepts - SOLID principles, clean code, design patterns, testing - including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, and operations
• Self-starter, resourceful, collaborative, curious and highly proactive behaviours are essential
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

 
    
Additional skills that would be advantageous
    

• eCommerce experience in a global setting
• Customer obsession, ensuring all technical work is centred around the mission of creating a best-in-class experience for the customer
• Experience with Drupal or similar CMS platform
• Masters in Computer Science or equivalent
• Highly skilled in modern web development practices and cloud (AWS) infrastructure management
• Experience with implementing SEO best practices.
• Familiarity with agile and lean software engineering
• A good understanding of business needs and the ability to reconcile tech debt, feature scope, and business requirements
• Self-starter, resourceful, curious and highly proactive
• Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment
• Experience working on teams with emphasis on DevOps, Automation, CI/CD, and Quality (Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to clearly articulate complex architectural and technical problems to non-technical audience
• Establish a high performing culture emphasising innovation, growth, and development

    
Our Tech Stack
     ·       Front End: React / Node.js
·       Back End: Drupal Framework - php / MySQL
·       Infrastructure: AWS - S3, Cloudfront, EC2, RDS, Elastic Load Balancer
·       Webservers: NGINX / Apache
·       Repo/CICD: Bitbucket