eCommerce Technical Lead

Accountabilities

• Own the technical direction, performance, reliability, and overall quality of the eCommerce platform and its critical integrations.


• Lead technical execution across frontend and backend initiatives, ensuring scalable architecture, maintainable code, and timely delivery of new features.


• Develop, review, and maintain production-ready code while actively reducing technical debt through refactoring and modernization efforts.


• Manage and optimize integrations between commerce systems and key business platforms, including ERP, payment solutions, order management, content management, product information management, and search technologies.


• Investigate and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, deployment challenges, and platform reliability concerns.


• Conduct in-depth code reviews for internal developers and external partners, providing actionable feedback and maintaining high engineering standards.


• Establish and reinforce best practices for software development, documentation, testing, deployment, and operational excellence.


• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical technical solutions while communicating trade-offs and project risks effectively.


• Support the future growth of the engineering function through mentoring, technical leadership, and eventual people-management responsibilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years working with large-scale eCommerce platforms such as Magento 2, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, or similar solutions.


• Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, with hands-on experience developing production applications using Vue 3, Nuxt, React, Next.js, or comparable frameworks.


• Proven experience working with headless or decoupled commerce architectures and modern content management systems.


• Solid background integrating eCommerce platforms with ERP systems and other business-critical technologies, including payments, OMS, PIM, search platforms, and customer data solutions.


• Practical experience with caching technologies, performance optimization, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident management, and production support.


• Strong understanding of frontend user experience principles and the ability to assess both technical quality and customer impact.


• Experience collaborating with external agencies, vendors, and distributed development teams, including reviewing deliverables and influencing technical decisions.


• Familiarity with PHP and Magento 2 environments is advantageous, particularly for architecture reviews and technical oversight.


• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical challenges, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and balance business priorities with engineering best practices.


• Previous technical leadership, mentoring, or team guidance experience is highly valued.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation ranging from $35 to $48 USD per hour.


• Long-term independent contractor engagement with a stable international organization.


• Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from Europe.


• Opportunity to work on a large-scale, revenue-generating eCommerce platform with significant technical ownership.


• Exposure to modern commerce technologies, complex system integrations, and international business operations.


• Career growth opportunities, including future leadership and people-management responsibilities.


• Collaborative, distributed team environment with direct impact on platform strategy and business outcomes.


• Occasional international travel opportunities for team meetings and company events.


• Flexible work structure designed for experienced professionals operating independently.

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