The partner company of Jobgether is looking to solve the problem of leading and inspiring engineering teams responsible for a high-impact e-commerce platform in California.
Requirements
- Technical expertise in Node.js, React, cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure transferrable), and GraphQL or similar real-time API frameworks.
- Experience with Agile teams, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI), and delivery practices including code review, test automation, and observability.
- Familiarity with secure coding principles and PCI compliance requirements.
- Preferred: experience in high-traffic e-commerce platforms, distributed systems, serverless platforms, or contributions to open-source projects.
- 5–8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 2+ years leading software development teams in a modern web stack environment.
- Strong strategic problem-solving, communication, and facilitation skills, able to bridge technical and product discussions.
- Proven ability to manage complex priorities, navigate ambiguity, and make decisive, ownership-driven decisions under pressure.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop software engineering teams, setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and driving career growth.
- Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery by managing sprint cadence, backlog health, and cross-team dependencies.
- Translate business objectives into executable technical plans in collaboration with Product, DevOps, QA, and Architecture teams.
- Drive platform improvements in scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
- Establish rhythm and accountability across teams, remove blockers, clarify priorities, and balance capacity against competing demands.
- Advance development processes, including CI/CD, observability, code quality, and documentation, to strengthen delivery discipline.
- Foster a culture of mentorship, collaboration, and cross-team communication to build a high-performing engineering organization.
Other
- Conduct performance management, feedback, and development planning to cultivate talent and future engineering leaders.
- 5–8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 2+ years leading software development teams in a modern web stack environment.
- Strong strategic problem-solving, communication, and facilitation skills, able to bridge technical and product discussions.
- Proven ability to manage complex priorities, navigate ambiguity, and make decisive, ownership-driven decisions under pressure.
- Open PTO policy, paid holidays, and 10 weeks paid parental leave.
