Technical Lead
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Job Location:
Melville, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Opportunity
As a Technical Lead youll play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of our SaaS platform a highly scalable data-driven product built for the evolving needs of the retail technology industry. This is an opportunity to lead a talented engineering team thats passionate about delivering innovative reliable and high-performance software.
Youll guide the technical direction of our platform architecture mentor developers and ensure that best practices in coding design and system reliability are consistently applied. Beyond building great software youll be part of a company that is actively embracing AI-assisted development and emerging frameworks like Agent OS and Cursor to accelerate productivity improve quality and redefine how engineering teams collaborate.
The Company
We are a small team with a big vision: to be the premier provider of cloud technology solutions for retailers. KWI offers a complete unified commerce solution from a single database specifically designed to help specialty retailers grow their business. Our portfolio of customers includes Pandora Bluemercury Tom Ford and many other globally recognizable brands.
We combine Point of Sale Merchandising Order Management eCommerce CRM and Loss Prevention into one cloud-based platform. We are a Values and Mission driven organization and we believe that if we develop and demonstrate leadership in our strategy operations and people we will continue to drive product innovation and service excellence.
As a Technical Lead you excel at the following core competencies
- Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
- Takes full ownership over the decisions actions and failures.
The impact youll make
- Lead the development and implementation of software projects from inception to deployment.
- Deep experience in distributed systems AI development and software architecture to help us build and scale intelligent autonomous systems using Spec Driven Development or Agentic Development.
- Youll lead the design and development of next-generation AI-driven applications powered by agent frameworks ensuring performance safety and interoperability across our platforms.
- Lead proof-of-concept development to validate new AI agent workflows APIs and interfaces.
- Evaluate emerging AI agent technologies and contribute to long-term architectural roadmaps.
- Be a creative problem solver who can draw on an array of expertise and technology to design and implement reliable scalable and maintainable solutions to challenging problems.
- Work closely with multiple teams to deliver transformational changes to our processes and technologies.
- Lead the technical specification development integration testing and release of software components
- Identify and address technical challenges optimize code for performance and participate in ongoing code refactoring.
- Design and implement scalable software systems aligned with organizational architecture and security best practices.
What you will bring
- BS Degree in Computer Science/Engineering related degree or equivalent work experience
- Expertise in Service-oriented architecture microservices advanced database schemes relational and nonrelational databases highly scalable and available web services.
- 6 Years of production coding experience preferably C# or in server-side Java and/or other object-oriented languages.
- Hands-on experience in building RESTful Web Services
- Prior experience using SQL Hibernate and one or more DB (MySQL Oracle Postgres etc)
- Prior experience using NoSQL. (Redis MongoDB DynamoDB etc)
- Hands-on experience with Agent OS Cursor or similar frameworks is a plus
- Experience with automated testing frameworks (TDD Mocking Unit/Functional/Integration)
- Extensive experience with Agile methodologies such as Kanban Scrum or SAFE
As a member of the KWI team you will receive
- Full Medical Dental and Vision
- Annual bonus eligible
- Free gym in the building
- Generous PTO policy
- Summer year round
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Discount from building café
- 401(K) with a 50% company match (up to 6% of employee contribution)
- Employee Referral Program
- (1) Volunteer day each year
Our work space
We understand that our teams need flexibility which is why we follow a hybrid schedule. Our in-office days of Monday Tuesday and Thursday and employees are allowed to work remotely on Wednesdays and Friday.
We are also a collaborative group and believe that getting together in person allows our team to do their best work. Together we enjoy monthly events bagels every Thursday a state-of-the-art coffee machine a full snack pantry and many more surprise and delight moments throughout the year.
Our commitment to you
At KWI we know that cultivating diversity and fostering an inclusive work environment is critical to our impact and success. We create an environment where no individual is advantaged or disadvantaged because of their background. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability status age marital status or protected veteran status.
With a commitment to maintaining a bias-free environment in which harassment is prohibited we respect cultural diversity and comply with the laws of the places in which we operate. We expect our business partners suppliers clients and all our team members to uphold these commitments.
Key Skills
- Administrative Skills
- Facilities Management
- Biotechnology
- Creative Production
- Design And Estimation
- Architecture
About Company
Learn about the KWI retail omnichannel platform: mobile POS, Merchandising, Inventory Management, eCommerce,Order Management, CRM and more.
