Director Engineering
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Job Description
Youll love it because you will
- Define and execute the vision and strategy for the core systems that power our digital product and eCommerce experience.
- Collaborate with Digital Product IT and business stakeholders to align solutions with strategic goals.
- Lead integrations of key platforms (Shopify Sanity Salsify Algolia/Elasticsearch) ensuring seamless system interaction.
- Adopt and integrate AI/ML solutions to drive personalization and enhance the user experience.
- Drive the design of robust APIs and eventdriven architecture to support scalable realtime communication and enrich our data warehouse.
- Lead engineering excellence by prioritizing system reliability establishing robust monitoring logging and alerting processes to ensure uninterrupted highperformance operations.
- Mentor and lead a highperforming engineering team that loves to ship.
- Own external vendor relationships ensuring effective delivery and system maintenance.
- Guide senior leadership on technology opportunities to enhance platform performance.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations (GDPR CCPA).
Qualifications :
We require
- 10 years experience in software engineering or system integration with 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles managing largescale customerfacing platforms.
- Proven track record managing highscale eCommerce platforms serving millions of customers with minimal downtime.
- Demonstrated ability to design implement and optimize complex realtime data pipelines and data flow systems including experience with tools such as DBT Snowflake and Fivetran.
- Deep experience designing integrations for eCommerce platforms such as Shopify Sanity Salsify Algolia Elasticsearch.
- Proven ability to lead lean globally distributed engineering teams establish core competencies foster team growth through personal and professional development and cultivate an outputoriented culture focused on achieving KPIs.
- Deep expertise in modern DevOps practices including infrastructure as code automation and continuous delivery at scale.
- Extensive expertise with observability monitoring and alerting tools (Datadog Sentry New Relic Grafana Prometheus Pager Duty).
- Track record of operational excellence including reliability engineering (SRE) and incident response management.
- Strong knowledge of Azure cloud and container technologies (Kubernetes Docker).
- Expertise in API architecture (REST GraphQL) and designing eventdriven systems.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript Python and SQL.
- Solid grasp of key data privacy and security standards relevant to global eCommerce operations.
- The following rolecritical competencies: Leading and Deciding Organizing and Executing Creating and Conceptualizin
Preferred Qualifications - Direct experience implementing and maintaining headless architecture with Shopify.
- Productoriented and datadriven mindset. High agency in discovering insights from product data and leading teams with measurable outcomes.
- Experience with MLdriven personalization and recommendation systems.
- Proficiency with SWE agents (Cursor Claude Code) active experimentation with new AIenabled tools to enhance productivity and quality and a vision to uplevel their team using AI.
Additional Information :
Spanx is proud of our continued Progressive People Practices
- Company Healthcare Plan: $0.00 out of pocket (Employee only benefit)
Fertility testing and treatment are included in Spanxs medical plans even without the diagnosis of infertility. - Parental Leave Policy: Primary caregiver receives 16 weeks AND will have the option to work a halftime schedule 20 hours per week) for up to four additional weeks with fulltime 40 hours per week) pay.
- Mental Health Days: 10 days
- 401K: Matched up to 4 with immediate vesting.
- PTO & Company Holidays: PLUS two full weeks of companywide closures (one in the Summer; one between Christmas and NYE)
- Flex Friday: Yearround half day Fridays!
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
