eCommerce Technical Lead

Summary

Join Hydrow as the eCommerce Technical Lead, driving development of our cutting-edge headless eCommerce platform. You will lead the technical direction of Hydrow.com, delivering high-impact projects enhancing the purchasing experience and elevating our direct-to-consumer sales. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, leveraging leading-edge eCommerce technologies, and contributing to architectural direction. You will be responsible for site development, performance optimization, and roadmap development. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in eCommerce application development, React frameworks, and modern frontend practices. Hydrow offers a dynamic work environment and competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Deep experience building eCommerce applications with Shopify or similar backend services in a headless environment
• Professional experience building and running high-traffic, full-stack web applications (4+ years minimum)
• Professional experience with React web frameworks, such as Next.js , Remix, Vue (2+ years minimum)
• Expertise in modern frontend development practices, including crafting responsive, accessible, and visually engaging user interfaces using component-based CSS frameworks and design systems
• Expertise with analytics and tag management tools (such as GTM), data layer events, and an understanding of SEO principles
• Clear understanding and experience around applying design patterns and modeling data and content
• Familiarity with key architectural elements such as browser behavior, consuming web services, serverless functions, middleware, web-analytics and server-side JS principles

Responsibilities

• Work with leading edge eCommerce web technologies including headless, serverless architectures to design and build beautiful, immersive, lightning-fast ecommerce experiences
• Contribute to the eCommerce architectural direction for a leading consumer brand
• Engage in a culture of continuous learning and innovation, where you can sharpen your skills, explore new technologies, and take on challenges that contribute to your professional growth and leadership in the field
• Acquaint yourself with Hydrow and our eCommerce systems, including architecture, processes, tools and incident response framework
• Build strong relationships with leaders and key stakeholders in the Marketing and Digital Platforms teams
• Participate in technical design and execution of site development, including hands-on development of components and site functionality
• Establish yourself as a credible thought leader in modern web technology
• Transition into our support rotation for website related incident response and escalation
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and developers to design, prioritize, and implement best-fit solutions for Hydrow.com
• Contribute to Hydrow’s ecommerce development standards, operational processes, and collaborative feature development and delivery
• Contribute to the management of site technical metrics and monitoring such as availability, performance and technical SEO. Oversee performance metrics, and make recommendations to optimize stability, page performance, conversion and positive customer experiences
• Drive delivery of key digital initiatives, demonstrating strong architectural principles with a shared sense of ownership of the experience product backlog
• Partner with cross-functional product teams to design and launch site experiments
• Drive roadmap development priorities in the leadup to the holiday sales season
• Maintain and enhance resiliency and our observability stack
• Drive improvements to development processes including collaboration, quality and velocity

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Contentful (or similar) headless CMS platforms and content modeling
• Practical experience designing and executing experiments and supporting techniques
• Experience designing for operations, partnering with operational staff to instrument observability best practices
• A keen focus on building for performance, optimizing for core web vitals and understanding key drivers

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Premiums 100% Paid For By Hydrow
• 6 Months Fully Paid Primary and Secondary Parental Leave
• Unlimited PTO Policy
• $150/week Reimbursable for Childcare
• 401k
• Free Membership to the Hydrow App and access to a free Hydrow