Job Description
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for an eCommerce Technical Lead in Switzerland.
We are looking for a highly skilled eCommerce Technical Lead to take ownership of a complex and business-critical digital commerce ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the technical evolution of a high-traffic eCommerce platform, balancing system reliability, performance, and feature delivery while ensuring long-term scalability. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, you will influence architectural decisions, improve development standards, and solve challenging technical problems across multiple integrated systems. This is a hands-on leadership position where coding, technical oversight, and strategic thinking are equally important. You'll have the opportunity to shape future engineering practices, mentor contributors, and play a key role in supporting ambitious growth objectives within a collaborative and fast-paced international environment.
Accountabilities
- Own the technical direction, performance, reliability, and overall quality of the eCommerce platform and its critical integrations.
- Lead technical execution across frontend and backend initiatives, ensuring scalable architecture, maintainable code, and timely delivery of new features.
- Develop, review, and maintain production-ready code while actively reducing technical debt through refactoring and modernization efforts.
- Manage and optimize integrations between commerce systems and key business platforms, including ERP, payment solutions, order management, content management, product information management, and search technologies.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, deployment challenges, and platform reliability concerns.
- Conduct in-depth code reviews for internal developers and external partners, providing actionable feedback and maintaining high engineering standards.
- Establish and reinforce best practices for software development, documentation, testing, deployment, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical technical solutions while communicating trade-offs and project risks effectively.
- Support the future growth of the engineering function through mentoring, technical leadership, and eventual people-management responsibilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years working with large-scale eCommerce platforms such as Magento 2, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, or similar solutions.
- Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, with hands-on experience developing production applications using Vue 3, Nuxt, React, Next.js, or comparable frameworks.
- Proven experience working with headless or decoupled commerce architectures and modern content management systems.
- Solid background integrating eCommerce platforms with ERP systems and other business-critical technologies, including payments, OMS, PIM, search platforms, and customer data solutions.
- Practical experience with caching technologies, performance optimization, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident management, and production support.
- Strong understanding of frontend user experience principles and the ability to assess both technical quality and customer impact.
- Experience collaborating with external agencies, vendors, and distributed development teams, including reviewing deliverables and influencing technical decisions.
- Familiarity with PHP and Magento 2 environments is advantageous, particularly for architecture reviews and technical oversight.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical challenges, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and balance business priorities with engineering best practices.
- Previous technical leadership, mentoring, or team guidance experience is highly valued.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation ranging from $35 to $48 USD per hour
- Long-term independent contractor engagement with a stable international organization.
- Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from Europe.
- Opportunity to work on a large-scale, revenue-generating eCommerce platform with significant technical ownership.
- Exposure to modern commerce technologies, complex system integrations, and international business operations.
- Career growth opportunities, including future leadership and people-management responsibilities.
- Collaborative, distributed team environment with direct impact on platform strategy and business outcomes.
- Occasional international travel opportunities for team meetings and company events.
- Flexible work structure designed for experienced professionals operating independently.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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