ABOUT THE POSITION
The Principal Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports composable storefront solutions built with React, Salesforce PWA Kit, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This role advances the frontend platform to enable rapid rollout of emerging brands and regional storefronts while ensuring performance, scalability, and reuse across sites.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
· Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of composable storefront platforms
· Contributes to and helps refine platform and site delivery backlogs for emerging brands and regions
· Participates in agile ceremonies and drives cross-team collaboration
· Defines architecture for multi-brand composable storefront delivery
· Mentors engineers and raises technical standards across teams
· Establishes quality, performance, and scalability standards
· Implements monitoring and proactive alerting for storefront health
· Employs DevOps practices to advance frontend platform capabilities
· Performs other duties as assigned
YOU ARE
· Expert in React and modern frontend architecture
· Experienced with Salesforce PWA Kit and composable storefronts
· Experienced with Salesforce Commerce Cloud integrations
· Strong in automation and platform reuse
· Familiar with SDLC and change management
· Strong collaborator across cross-functional teams
· Able to influence without direct authority
· Strong written and oral communicator
· Able to evaluate processes and drive improvement
· Comfortable making decisions on complex architectural issues
· Exposure to retail or ecommerce solutions preferred
YOU HAVE
· Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience
· 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
· Experience delivering headless ecommerce storefronts
· Experience designing reusable frontend platforms
· Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation
· Experience improving frontend performance and scalability
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard. Our apparel, footwear, and accessories reflect our Pacific Northwest heritage and indomitable spirit.
Over the last 80 years, Columbia and our family of brands, Sorel, prAna, and Mountain Hardwear, have grown to over 10,000 employees and proudly sell products in over 100 countries.
At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available around the world, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where the lush forests, snow-covered mountains, rugged coastline, and wide-open spaces serve as our playground. This is where we hike, fish, hunt, camp, climb, shred, paddle, golf, run, and just enjoy the fresh air with friends.
We hope to see you out there.
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