Lead Developer, Contentful

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

📋 Description

• Assume technical leadership for the engineering delivery of an enterprise migration from Sitecore to Contentful, encompassing both content and application transfers.

• Guide the development team, set engineering standards, and ensure the delivery of a scalable and maintainable solution based on Contentful.

• Oversee technical implementation related to content, applications, and integrations.

• Collaborate with architects to define migration strategies, Contentful implementation patterns, and make informed technical decisions.

• Assist in the migration and modernization of React frontends and related services.

• Establish approaches for content modeling, transformation, migration automation, and validation.

• Coordinate engineering efforts, tackle complex technical challenges, and manage dependencies and delivery risks.

• Stay hands-on for intricate implementations, technical exploration, and critical problem-solving tasks.

• Promote AI-first engineering and implement specification-driven development methodologies.

• Utilize AI for Sitecore analysis, content mapping, migration automation, code modernization, and testing processes.

• Mentor developers in leveraging AI coding assistants and automated engineering workflows.

• Develop review, security, and quality measures for AI-generated code and migration outputs.

• Foster experimentation, knowledge sharing, and tangible productivity gains through the adoption of AI technologies.

• Take responsibility for engineering quality, consistent implementation, and technical delivery results.

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

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

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

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive engineering experience, including technical leadership in the delivery of complex digital platforms.

• Demonstrated experience with enterprise CMS migrations, replatforming efforts, or significant headless CMS implementations.

• Strong practical expertise in Contentful, Sitecore, and the migration and integration hurdles associated with them.

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

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

• Practical experience in AI-assisted software development, with the capacity to promote the adoption of AI-native, specification-driven engineering practices.

• Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, release processes, and managing technical risks.

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

• Prior technical leadership experience in a Sitecore-to-Contentful migration is preferred.

• Familiarity with Next.js, Sitecore JSS, and composable architecture is advantageous.

• Experience utilizing AI to expedite complex migrations, modernize legacy applications, or enhance engineering workflows is beneficial.

• Background in handling multilingual, multisite, or enterprise content platforms is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private health insurance

• Education program with training and certification

• Wellbeing program

• Complimentary coffee, drinks, and snacks at the workplace

• Company dinners

• Social events such as ski trips, go-karting, laser-tag, wine tasting, picnics, cooking classes, and other team activities

• Competitive salary

• 24 days of vacation

• Annual company gatherings with the entire team

• Engaging and challenging projects

• A culture of honest and open feedback

• Reasonable accommodations during the interview process