Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead sprint planning, delivery execution, and retrospectives

• Contribute directly to architecture, coding, code reviews, and production deployments

• Drive modernization initiatives across backend, frontend, APIs, and database layers

• Mentor and grow engineering talent

• Drive AI-assisted development workflows and engineering standards

Required Technical Skills

• C#/.NET, Go, Python, or Java

• React or modern frontend frameworks

• REST APIs and microservices

• MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL

• CI/CD and automated testing

• AI-assisted development tooling experience

Required Leadership Skills

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a lead/manager role.

• AI-driven SDLC: Hands-on experience delivering production code using tools like Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails. Coach teams on AI-driven SDLC practices (agentic coding, prompt engineering, automated testing, eval-driven quality).

• Full-stack orientation: Comfortable across frontend, backend, and data layers.

• End-to-end ownership: Proven delivery from scoping through release and retrospectives.

• Engineering excellence: Strong practices in code quality, testing, and CI/CD for production-grade delivery. Monitor and improve team health, velocity, and code quality benchmarks.

 • Capture and share learnings, architectural decisions, and process improvements.

• People leadership: Experience hiring, mentoring, and providing direct feedback.

• Communication: Clear, effective collaboration across product, design, and engineering. Proactively communicate progress, risks, and decisions to VP Engineering and stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience in e-commerce, retail tech, or high-scale consumer platforms.

• Managing distributed/nearshore teams (US, Mexico, LATAM, Asia).

• Contributions to developer tooling, platforms, or SDLC improvements at scale.

• Exposure to MLOps or model deployment pipelines.

• Strong documentation practices (RFCs, architecture decisions, wikis)

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree