Lead Engineer, Global eCommerce Platform - Skechers

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent nearly 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 170 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,000 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

Skecher’s Digital Team is seeking a Lead Engineer – Global eCommerce Platform reporting to the Director, Digital eCommerce Architecture. As the Lead Engineer – Global eCommerce Platform, you will lead a team of digital engineers to deliver a high-powered, cutting-edge web-based application to support the rapid growth of global eCommerce running Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware). You will work collaboratively with product owners, vendors, and business stakeholders to develop and create enterprise-level web applications that are both scalable and robust. The ideal candidate will be a strong leader, have full-stack hands-on experience in Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and the ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment. 

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive issue resolution directly, and coordinate both internal and external resources. 
• Work with the team on best practices for agile development including estimating stories, grooming backlog, and breaking down epics. 
• Work with the product owner and business stakeholders to define feature requirements and set priorities. 
• Deep understanding of test-driven development. 
• Ensure the quality of the platform codebase by actively reviewing every change. 
• Partner with architects within cross-functional teams to discuss long-term technology strategy and provide objective information and data to help inform and drive critical technology decisions. 
• Eliminate impediments to allow the development team to focus on their tasks. 
• Manage projects, workflow, and development roadmap to keep the development team organized, efficient, and optimally running. 
• Mentor team individuals to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their careers.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Yes 

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 7 - 10 years of experience in both frontend and backend development on Salesforce Commerce Cloud. 
• 3 - 7 years of development management experience. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Deep Knowledge of Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C (Demandware) is required. 
• Certifications in Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C. 
• Deep Knowledge of digital commerce components such as users, catalog, pricing, inventory, marketing, order, and payment, 
• Knowledge of digital commerce integration such as CMS, DAM, PIM, OMS, and ERP 
• Expert knowledge in javascript, CSS, HTML and server side development. 
• Knowledge of relational, non-relational databases, and SQL. 
• Knowledge with CI / CD in Jenkins. 
• Experience with Git source control and collaboration tool such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack/Microsoft Teams 
• Experience agile development methodology 
• Experience with web frameworks, interactive web development, responsive web design 
• Experience with site speed optimization 
• Experience and working knowledge of secure development practices 
• Experience with AWS is a plus. 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS-

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The salary range for this position is $125,00-$190,000 USD.