Technical Architect

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.

The Role:

As a Technical Architect you will be responsible for tech architecture of our platform and its product lines. You will be expected to mentor a team of high performing individual contributors that embody our leadership principles. You will own high quality delivery of product development, driving innovation and engineering excellence across your teams.

In this role, you will lead and mentor a cross-functional team of Principal Engineers, Software Engineers, and Software Engineers in Test. As a leader, you will play a crucial role in building the culture, motivating the team and bringing the best practices across all of these functional areas to ensure that the software we build and the technical processes we implement are quantifiable with respect to quality and always deliver the best for our customers.

The successful candidate will be passionate about building a scalable architecture, drive engineering excellence, be obsessed with innovation, relentlessly raise the bar on the quality of what we deliver and influence and drive a high-level tech strategy with leadership, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing org-wide strategy.

Our product suite covers the entire lifecycle of e-commerce optimization including CommerceIQ Sales, Advertising, Digital Shelf Optimization (DSO) and other upcoming products. This role will have you lead and be responsible for the architecture of our product suite, driving a profound impact on how consumer brands sell and optimize their e-commerce presence and help drive millions of dollars in ROI. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver complex products, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you. Come help us build an automated e-commerce optimization suite of products!

Location / Travel:

This is an onsite role based out of our Mountain View, CA headquarters. You will be expected to work onsite 5 days per week if hired.

What You'll Do:

• Hands-on technical leader accountable for a large portion of organisation architecture, which includes ownership of the design and quality of software built by at least 3 development teams.
• Segments an architecture to be developed by different teams.
• Works strategically, evaluates industry approaches for use internally, leads design reviews, builds consensus, aligns teams toward coherent architectural strategies, and drives clarity.
• Sets the technical strategy and standard for engineering excellence within your organization.
• Mentor and guide the engineering team on engineering excellence best practices and own architecting our services for scale.
• Drive innovation within the team to bring engineering driven products that creates differentiators for us in the market.
• Works on high impact, critical, or strategically important initiatives.
• Mitigates risks caused by complexity (deconstructs problems and systems into straight forward solutions); handles most escalations.
• Determines where their own and other resources are best applied to accomplish goals.
• Actively works to remove bottlenecks and establishes mechanisms for auditing.
• Works with the executive leadership team to create a forward looking and ambitious tech strategy and influence product and business strategy.
• Owns and delivers the organizational tech strategy as per plan.

What You'll Bring:

• 15+ years’ experience in building, delivering and scaling high quality cloud-based software products.
• Experience managing multiple teams, including principal level engineers.
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise SaaS or B2C applications on cloud using enterprise Java and UI (react / vue / js / node) stack that have scaled is a must.
• Strong analytical and strategic problem solving skills - exhibited throughout your career.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
• Strong business and technical vision.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field is required.

Benefits & Perks:

The typical base pay range for this role in Mountain View, CA is USD: $242,000 - $273,000/per year.

This base pay range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed based on a number of factors including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock options, as well as potential discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to:

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• A 401(k)-retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Monthly reimbursements for gym, phone, and internet
• 10+ paid company holidays in each calendar year, quarterly Global Recharge Fridays, and unlimited PTO

Check out our LinkedIn page to learn more about what it’s like to work!

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.

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.