Principal Engineer, Software Engineering eCommerce Applications

Position Summary:

The Principal Engineer Software Engineering - eCommerce and Portal Applications is a senior technical leader responsible for driving the design development modernization and operational excellence of enterprise eCommerce and portal platforms. This role provides hands-on technical leadership across architecture implementation software engineering standards platform scalability integration strategy and development best practices.

The Principal Engineer partners with product managers architects designers engineers cybersecurity infrastructure and business stakeholders to deliver secure resilient and high-performing digital solutions. This position plays a critical role in shaping engineering direction enabling delivery teams and ensuring digital platforms support seamless customer partner and internal user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the senior technical leader for eCommerce and portal application engineering initiatives.

• Drive engineering strategy and technical execution for customer-facing and partner-facing digital platforms.

• Translate architectural direction into implementable engineering solutions and development standards.

• Lead complex technical design decisions across applications services APIs and integrations.

• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on code quality performance scalability and maintainability.

Application Development and Modernization

• Lead the design and development of modern eCommerce and portal applications using scalable and reusable engineering patterns.

• Support modernization of legacy systems into cloud-enabled API-driven and service-oriented architectures.

• Build and guide implementation of core digital capabilities such as:

  • User account management

  • Product catalog and search

  • Shopping cart and checkout flows

  • Order placement and order history

  • Self-service account features

  • Content and document access

  • Notifications and communications

• Promote composable modular and headless application approaches where appropriate.

Engineering Standards and Best Practices

• Establish and enforce software engineering best practices coding standards and secure development principles.

• Lead code reviews design reviews and technical walkthroughs.

• Champion quality engineering practices including automated testing performance testing and observability.

• Guide teams in applying CI/CD DevSecOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Ensure solutions are designed for reliability recoverability and operational supportability.

Integration and Platform Enablement

• Lead development of integrations between eCommerce/portal applications and enterprise platforms such as:

  • ERP

  • CRM

  • Identity and access management systems

  • Product information management platforms

  • Content management systems

  • Payment gateways

  • Order management systems

  • Analytics and reporting tools

• Drive API design standards and promote event-based integration patterns where appropriate.

• Partner with enterprise architecture and platform teams to enable reusable services and shared capabilities.

Performance Security and Reliability

• Ensure applications meet requirements for performance scalability security and availability.

• Collaborate with security teams to implement secure coding practices authentication authorization and data protection controls.

• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks technical debt and operational risks.

• Support production readiness incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts.

• Promote proactive monitoring logging alerting and observability practices.

Team Mentorship and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and help elevate the technical capability of the organization.

• Partner with product owners UX teams architects QA and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Contribute to technical hiring onboarding and talent development.

• Facilitate alignment across multiple scrum teams or engineering workstreams.

• Communicate technical tradeoffs risks and recommendations to both technical and business audiences.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or related field.

• Typically10 yearsof experience in software engineering with significant experience in enterprise application development.

• 3 yearsin a staff principal lead or equivalent senior technical role.

• Strong hands-on experience building and supporting large-scale eCommerce portal or other customer-facing web applications.

• Deep knowledge of modern software engineering practices and patterns including:

  • Microservices

  • RESTful APIs

  • Event-driven architecture

  • Distributed systems

  • Domain-driven design

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as:

  • Java

  • C#

  • JavaScript / TypeScript

  • Python

• Experience with front-end frameworks and modern web application architecture.

• Experience with cloud platforms such asAzure AWS or Google Cloud.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines automated testing source control and DevSecOps practices.

• Strong understanding of security authentication authorization and data protection in digital applications.

• Excellent problem-solving collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with B2B eCommerce customer portals or enterprise self-service applications.

• Experience with platforms or ecosystems such as:

  • Adobe Commerce / Magento

  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud

  • SAP Commerce Cloud

  • Shopify Plus

  • Adobe Experience Manager

  • Sitecore

  • Azure API Management

  • Identity providers such as Okta Azure AD or Auth0

• Experience designing and implementing headless commerce or composable digital platforms.

• Familiarity with:

  • Containers and Kubernetes

  • Caching technologies

  • Search platforms

  • Observability tools

  • Performance engineering

• Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare life sciences or distribution.

• Exposure to architecture governance and enterprise-scale delivery models.

We provide compensation benefits and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members ability to live with purpose every addition to traditional offerings like medical dental and vision care we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical emotional financial and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families which may include backup dependent care adoption assistance infertility coverage family building support behavioral health solutions paid parental leave and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth we also offer a variety of training programs professional development resources and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs employee resource groups volunteer activities and much more. For details visit time