SFCC Web Tech Lead

About Astound Commerce

Astound Commerce is a global ecommerce agency headquartered in the US. With over 1200 professionals in 12 countries, we are one of the world's largest teams of ecommerce experts. Top brands like Adidas, Puma, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and Crocs are among our clients. Company centers in Eastern Europe are focused on the development of ecommerce solutions on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware), Hybris, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Intershop, Kibo, Magento, NetSuite.

Job Purpose

Development Lead (Team Lead) will be a leader of a high-performance feature is driven development team responsible for building enterprise-level ecommerce platform solutions.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead SFCC project development team;
• Familiarize the team with customer's needs and development process;
• Take ownership of the project. Collaborate with the project team to drive closure to problems and open issues;
• Prioritize and distribute tasks. Make sure that team members are familiar with them;
• Perform code reviews;
• Drive continuous improvements to development methodology and underlying processes;
• Participate in technical approaches writing;
• Write and review technical documentation.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum 4 years of web development practice;
• At least 3 years of experience with SFCC;
• At least 2 years of SFCC development team leadership experience (4+ team members);
• Knowledge of native JavaScript and OOP;
• Solid SFCC ecosystem knowledge;
• Software architecture design using object-oriented and modularity principles;
• Experience with working on complex functional software projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies;
• Technical documentation writing skills;
• Design patterns knowledge and experience;
• Experience in refactoring and code review;
• Understanding of JSON, CSV, XML files formats;
• Experience in integrations with other systems through REST or SOAP;
• Experience with any VCS (Git is preferred);
• Upper-intermediate English (including speaking).

Good to have

• Experience in the SRA process;
• Experience in performance optimization (server and client);
• Experience in complex features and integrations;
• Knowledge of JS build engines like gulp or webpack, release manager experience;
• Knowledge of Handlebars or similar template processor.

What's In It For you

• Knowledgebase of the world's largest ecommerce delivery team;
• Trainings and certifications;
• A constant inflow of ecommerce projects with global outreach;
• Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
• Internal/external engineering and business trainings and conferences and time for self-education;
• Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes;

Your Work-Life at Astound Commerce

• Well set SDLC process with use of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall depending on a project
• A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams, easy communications and access to clients;
• Possible international on-site visits;
• Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.