Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

Our retail platform is scaling across multiple brands and needs a senior engineer who can own a service area end-to-end�setting technical direction, writing production code daily, and raising the bar for the developers around you. As Lead Software Engineer, you will serve as the technical owner for a core area of our retail service cloud, designing approaches, contributing code, and mentoring engineers while driving the roadmap from legacy replacement through new feature delivery.

• Serve as technical owner for your service area, setting architecture direction and maintaining quality standards.
• Design, build, and ship features by reading and writing code daily alongside the team.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges across the stack, from profiling and refactoring to scaling the platform.
• Replace legacy code and services with modern, maintainable solutions and optimize the overall stack.
• Plan and communicate product roadmaps, triage sprint tickets, and manage technical tradeoffs.
• Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and hands-on problem solving.
• Contribute to hiring decisions and drive developer productivity.

• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
• Proficiency and production experience with AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB.
• Comfortable with IAM and CloudWatch for debugging and least-privilege design.
• Experience with Python and Django or comparable server-side frameworks.
• Track record of owning architecture decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers while remaining a significant individual contributor.
• Experience replacing or modernizing legacy systems in a production environment.

• Experience with retail, e-commerce, or multi-brand platform environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns.
• Prior experience in a technical lead role on a small, high-output team.

Required Skills