Lead Developer / Technical Architect, eCommerce

Requirements:

• 8+ years designing, building, and shipping production web applications, including 3+ years as a Lead Developer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or Architect.
• Hands-on experience supporting and owning a revenue-generating ecommerce storefront in production.
• Direct experience with an enterprise or composable commerce platform such as VTEX, Kibo, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, SAP Commerce Cloud, commercetools, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, or a comparable platform.
• Strong B2B ecommerce experience, including several of the following: punchout (cXML/OCI), quoting, purchase orders, contract or customer-specific pricing, account hierarchies, tax exemptions, and approval workflows.
• Strong hands-on React and TypeScript experience, including production work with a server-rendered React framework such as Next.js, Remix, or an equivalent.
• Strong understanding of headless and API-first architectures, including REST, GraphQL, authentication and token management, edge/CDN caching, webhooks, and event-driven integrations.
• Experience leading an agile development process and being directly accountable for technical delivery.
• Experience owning production ecommerce operations, including uptime, performance, incident response, and peak-season readiness.
• Experience completing at least one significant ecommerce platform migration or replatforming initiative.
• Ability to clearly communicate architecture, technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred: Experience with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) or migration from a legacy monolithic platform to a composable or headless architecture.
• Preferred: Experience taking ownership of a platform initially developed by an implementation partner or systems integrator.
• Preferred: Experience integrating commerce platforms with ERP, OMS, PIM, and DAM systems.
• Preferred: Experience with headless CMS platforms such as Contentful, Contentstack, Storyblok, or Sanity.
• Preferred: Experience with composable search platforms such as Algolia, Constructor, or Bloomreach, or platform-native search technologies.
• Preferred: Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, including containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Preferred: Experience with large or complex product catalogs and SEO-sensitive ecommerce migrations.
• Preferred: Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and modern front-end performance optimization.
• Preferred: Experience in education, B2B distribution, multi-brand retail, or another complex ecommerce environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end technical architecture across the storefront, commerce APIs, CMS, search, PIM, ERP, OMS, payments, tax, and related systems.
• Act as technical design authority during implementation, reviewing and challenging partner architecture, technical approaches, and deliverables.
• Own the React-based storefront architecture, including rendering strategy, caching, scalability, and performance.
• Define integration architecture across ERP, PIM, OMS, marketing, and other enterprise systems, including data contracts, synchronization, APIs, events, and failure handling.
• Contribute directly to development and remain hands-on with code, architecture, troubleshooting, and technical problem-solving.
• Lead technical planning for data migration and cutover, covering product catalogs, customer accounts, order history, content, SEO redirects, and release sequencing.
• Establish engineering standards for code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, environment management, security, and releases; document architectural decisions, standards, and trade-offs.
• Own production platform stability, scalability, security, and performance; establish monitoring, runbooks, escalation procedures, incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Manage technical relationships with commerce and technology vendors, including releases, roadmaps, upgrades, and escalations.
• Identify, prioritize, and manage technical debt; drive improvements in site speed, reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and customer experience.
• Prepare the platform for peak-volume periods and business-critical events.
• Lead agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Break complex initiatives into incremental releases that demonstrate progress and deliver measurable business value.
• Partner with Product, Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, and other stakeholders to turn business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Keep leadership informed of technical risks, dependencies, scope, and timelines; manage delivery by systems integrators, agencies, vendors, and contract developers to our engineering standards.
• Lead the transition from partner-led implementation to internal ownership through knowledge transfer, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Coach and mentor a small development team, help recruit and develop technical talent, and foster accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Build documentation, processes, and runbooks that support effective platform operations without single-person dependencies.

Technologies:

• API
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CMS
• DevOps
• ERP
• GraphQL
• Support
• Marketing
• REST
• React
• SAP
• SAP Commerce
• Salesforce
• Security
• Shopify
• TypeScript
• Web

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At Excelligence Learning Corporation, we are transforming our digital commerce ecosystem by moving from SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) to a modern, composable architecture. We are hiring a hands-on Lead Developer / Technical Architect, eCommerce to guide the transformation and take ownership of the platform after implementation. Our ecommerce businesses serve institutional B2B customers—including schools, school districts, and early childhood programs—as well as direct-to-consumer customers. B2B is the larger and more complex part of our business, with needs such as punchout, quoting, purchase orders, contract pricing, tax exemptions, approval workflows, and account hierarchies. You will work alongside our implementation partner and, after go-live, lead the platforms continued evolution. We are a mission-driven organization dedicated to supporting educators and helping children succeed, and offer the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment alongside talented professionals. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to fair employment opportunities in accordance with applicable law.

last updated 43 week of 2026