Senior Technical Lead - Platform

Company Overview

CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

What You Will Do:

The Data Platform Team builds critical platforms that abstract lower-level complexities, enabling engineers to focus solely on business logic. This includes platforms like the Events Choreography Platform and the Configurable Ingestion Platform. Given their impact across multiple teams, we maintain high standards for stability, availability, and scalability.

As Senior Technical Lead, you will:

• Define and drive technical strategy, collaborating with managers to prioritize and shape the team's roadmap.
• Lead high-impact projects, handling ambiguous problem statements and delivering scalable solutions.
• Own system design and architecture, ensuring reliability, observability, and best practices.
• Mentor and lead engineers, fostering growth, technical excellence, and high-quality execution.
• Bridge cross-functional gaps, coordinating between stakeholders to align on technical decisions.
• Review designs, documents, and PRs, maintaining high code and system quality.
• Develop a deep understanding of the platforms, ensuring comprehensive ownership.
• Get your hands dirty and pick up coding and deep dives.

What You Bring:

• 7-9 years of experience in software engineering.
• 4+ years experience in leading small to medium size teams.
• Expertise in scalable, distributed systems with strong problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on experience with observability, developer experience, and performance optimizations.
• Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, and drive solutions.
• You measure success by the impact you create not by the line of code you ship.
• You take charge and become a human orchestrator connecting dots between different Stakeholders and team members when required.
• High Level of independence. We need people who can function independently and collaboratively.  
• Data-intensive application experience (ETL/ELT) is a plus.

Culture Fitment:

• Highly collaborative with a strong ability to align teams.
• Open to feedback, values constructive criticism.
• Customer-first approach, ensuring excellent developer experience.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments and takes initiative.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.