Lead Engineer, Software (Backend)

Job Description
We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join our team responsible for digital application portfolio that includes eCommerce shopping experience, personalized recommendations, content management system, search, online returns, and retail POS commerce solutions.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our backend applications written in Typescript and Python, leveraging cloud platforms like AWS and Azure and backend-as-a-services like Algolia. You will be working closely with our ERP integration team, data engineering team and marketing/eCommerce team to ensure scalability of our architecture and accuracy of data across systems, as well as frontend engineers to design, build &
maintain flexible APIs.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Design, develop, deploy and maintain scalable solutions that require working with multiple product lines and integrations with internal and external systems
Work closely with frontend engineers to build and maintain a standardized and flexible API for frontend applications
Design, implement and enforce holistic data schema across platforms and systems
Work with data engineering team to ensure accurate reporting
Assist with troubleshooting and solving technical issues within and across teams (i.E., ERP integration)
Ensure high quality and maintainable code through code reviews, testing, and other best practices
Mentor senior and junior engineers
Pair effectively with other engineers to deliver high-quality code
Practice engineering culture by example, evangelizing best practices like test-driven development and refactoring