A principal-level front-end engineer who designs, builds, and supports customer-facing eCommerce features through the full software lifecycle, leading initiatives, mentoring juniors, and fixing stability/scalability issues. Core stack: JavaScript (OO), HTML5/CSS3, AJAX, XML/JSON, webpack/npm/Grunt/Gulp, and Git/SVN.
Principal Software Engineers eCommerce partner with both the business and technical teams to innovate and deliver new features and enhancements for the eCommerce platform. This position focuses on the design, development, and support of on-line, customer facing, eCommerce business solutions.
Principal Software Engineers eCommerce create and/or modify highly complex solutions that meet the expectations of stakeholders. This position may manage and coordinate resources on assigned projects. They have a thorough knowledge of web application systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
Design, develop and support eCommerce projects throughout all phases of the software development life cycle
Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes
Work with engineers and other cross functional teams like Product Management, Project Management, Release Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations teams etc. to develop innovative solutions that meet eCommerce market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles
Lead eCommerce product initiatives, recommend improvements, mentor and guide junior team members
Identify project risks and work effectively to mitigate them
Find and help fix stability/scalability issues in a very time critical environment
Support site rollouts and be available to resolve site issues
Develop industry and product technical expertise
Required Skills:
Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
Solid understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript,
Experience with XML and JSON technologies.
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD
Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as webpack, npm, Grunt and Gulp.js
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN
Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
Proficiency in building reusable components and moduls