Modernize and decouple Zoro's business systems from NetSuite, rebuilding key capabilities as standalone services and tools to scale operational, financial, and fulfillment processes for the future.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundation with experience in backend, platform, or ERP-integrated systems.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Java, PHP).
- Demonstrated experience leading projects involving system integrations, APIs, and service decomposition.
- Experience with modern DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Experience implementing modern observability, reliability, and performance practices.
- Prior experience leading teams involved in monolith decomposition, modernization or system decoupling.
- Proven success building or scaling new teams, particularly in multi-year or large-scale transformation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead a new engineering team responsible for gradually extracting and rebuilding Zoro’s NetSuite customizations into scalable, service-oriented systems.
- Develop and mentor engineers—fostering growth, inclusion, and accountability while maintaining high technical and delivery standards.
- Drive project execution and delivery, ensuring milestones are met while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Partner with senior product, finance, fulfillment, and platform engineering leaders to define the roadmap and align technical efforts with business objectives.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment automation.
- Collaborate with foundational platform teams to ensure new systems are reliable, secure, and compliant with Zoro's and industry standards (PCI/SOX, etc.).
- Act as a technical and organizational bridge between legacy systems and modern architectures, helping to guide decision-making and change management across teams.
Other
- Proven people leadership experience
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills—able to collaborate effectively across engineering and business functions.
- Hybrid role, requiring at least two days per week in the office.
- 6+ years of professional experience in software development, with 2+ years of management or team leadership experience.
- Track record of technical project delivery in high-impact or cross-functional environments.
