Lead Developer, Contentful

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Bulgaria.

📋 Description

• Assume technical responsibility for engineering output in an enterprise migration from Sitecore to Contentful, encompassing both content and application transitions.

• Lead the development team while establishing engineering standards.

• Ensure the creation of a scalable and maintainable solution based on Contentful.

• Collaborate with architects to define migration options, implementation patterns for Contentful, and make key technical decisions.

• Facilitate the migration and modernization of current applications, including React frontends and supporting services.

• Define strategies for content modeling, transformation, automation of migration, and validation methods.

• Coordinate engineering tasks, address complex technical issues, and manage dependencies and delivery risks.

• Maintain a hands-on approach for intricate implementations, technical spikes, and significant problem-solving tasks.

• Advocate for AI-first engineering and promote specification-driven development methodologies.

• Identify AI applications relevant to Sitecore analysis, content mapping, migration automation, code modernization, and testing.

• Guide developers in utilizing AI coding assistants and automated engineering workflows.

• Establish review, security, and quality protocols for AI-generated code and migration results.

• Promote experimentation, knowledge sharing, and measurable productivity enhancements through AI integration.

• Take ownership of engineering quality, implementation consistency, and technical delivery results.

• Set standards for code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, migration validation, and release readiness.

• Lead technical planning for migration, including cutover, rollback, and post-migration support.

• Offer technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to developers.

• Serve as a trusted technical liaison for client stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams.

• Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations in alignment with business goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive engineering experience, including technical leadership in complex digital platform implementations.

• Documented experience with enterprise CMS migrations, replatforming, or significant headless CMS projects.

• Strong practical knowledge of Contentful, Sitecore, and the associated challenges of migration and integration.

• Deep understanding of React, TypeScript, API-driven architectures, and application modernization.

• Experience in leading engineering teams, making technical decisions, and ensuring delivery quality.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development and the capability to promote the adoption of AI-native, specification-driven engineering practices.

• Comprehensive knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, release procedures, and technical risk management.

• Excellent stakeholder communication, consultancy, and technical leadership skills.

• Desirable: prior technical leadership role in a Sitecore-to-Contentful migration.

• Desirable: experience with Next.js, Sitecore JSS, and composable architectures.

• Desirable: experience using AI to expedite complex migrations, legacy application modernization, or engineering workflows.

• Desirable: experience with multilingual, multisite, or enterprise content management platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility with hybrid work arrangements and 25 vacation days to promote a healthy work-life balance.

• Co-subsidized transportation and Multisport cards.

• Premium health insurance providing swift access to top-tier healthcare services.

• Training policies for technical and other skills-related events, courses, and certifications.

• Personal career development roadmap informed by performance evaluations.

• Self-care program offering psychological consultations and discussions for you and the team.

• Comfortable office space designed to enhance productivity.

• Engaging team events and company gatherings.

• Opportunities for growth.

• A culture driven by values.

• International career opportunities.

• A workplace culture that encourages creativity, diversity, and autonomy.

• A borderless, global framework that facilitates seamless collaboration.