Team Lead – Back End Engineering

📋 Description

• Lead and guide a team of backend engineers (3–6 engineers), establishing technical direction and ensuring consistent delivery quality.

• Take ownership of sprint planning, backlog refinement, and capacity management in Jira, closely collaborating with the client's Product and Delivery teams.

• Drive architectural decisions for core backend services, including Identity & Auth, Order Management, Pricing, Inventory, Catalog, and Notifications.

• Define and uphold engineering standards encompassing code reviews, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and testing coverage (xUnit, BDD/Reqnroll).

• Collaborate with the client's Project Manager and architects to align technical scope with POC, MVP, and full-launch phase boundaries.

• Coordinate with the Shopify/Hydrogen front-end team and third-party vendors to ensure clean API contracts and integration points.

• Navigate the complexities of brownfield environments—evaluate existing legacy systems, support migration planning, and ensure backward compatibility as necessary.

• Proactively identify, highlight, and address delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers.

• Engage in client-facing stand-ups, sprint reviews, and technical design sessions.

• Ensure environmental consistency and observability across Dev, QA, Integration, Staging, and Production (AWS-hosted).

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional backend development experience.

• Strong expertise in C# / .NET (ASP.NET Core Web API, .NET 8) and clean architecture principles (DDD, CQRS).

• Practical experience in designing and building RESTful microservices at scale.

• Comprehensive understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architecture patterns.

• Experience with AWS services, including Lambda, SQS/EventBridge, S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, or DynamoDB.

• Familiarity with Identity & Auth patterns such as JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC; experience with Keycloak or similar identity providers.

• Experience in brownfield environments—assessing and integrating with existing systems.

• Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipeline management (Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent).

• Strong team facilitation abilities: sprint ceremonies, code reviews, and cross-vendor alignment.

• Excellent communication skills in English—both written and spoken—for daily client interactions.

• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or B2B commerce domains—understanding order lifecycle, pricing models, inventory management, and multi-channel fulfillment.

• Familiarity with headless or composable commerce architectures and front-end/backend API contract patterns.

• Experience with marketplace integrations (Amazon SP-API, Walmart Marketplace API).

• Background in promotional products, print-on-demand, or B2B e-commerce.

• Experience in distributed, multi-vendor delivery models.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to educational resources.

• Flexible schedule and the ability to work from anywhere.

• Referral program.

• Supportive and relaxed atmosphere.