Lead Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Caraway, a fast-growing, fully remote home goods brand, as their Lead Full Stack Engineer. You will lead the core site experience team, reporting to the Director of Engineering and developing the first engineering pods. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a best-in-class e-commerce experience, ensuring scalability and performance. As a lead, you will mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and ensure best practices are followed. This role requires extensive full-stack development experience, e-commerce expertise, and strong leadership skills. Caraway offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive remote work environment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in full stack development
• 2+ years of experience working in e-commerce, direct to consumer is preferred
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Expertise in developing, maintaining, and reviewing frontend and backend code; utilizing modern HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and web APIs
• Writes clean modular code and wants to craft beautiful customer-facing experiences
• Experience with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Magento, or BigCommerce required
• Experience with a use of a react framework such as Gatsby or Next in a production environment
• Self-starter with a passion for learning and continuous improvement
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable bridging the gap between technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define scope, develop and implement robust scalable solutions across our customer facing web experience
• Lead and mentor a team of developers contributing to a positive team culture
• Efficiently manage engineering resources through sprint planning, polishing up tickets, and mitigating challenges and roadblocks for the team, ensuring on time delivery of project timelines, deliverables, and resources
• Design, build, and scale web platforms for high-traffic applications, requiring the ability to prioritize effectively and make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Perform thorough QA testing including cross-browser/platform compatibility in partnership with the QA Engineer to identify bottlenecks, improve efficiency, and troubleshoot bugs
• Contribute to the maintenance of comprehensive technical documentation and write technical documentation as needed
• Implement third-party pixels and work with analytic tools to support data-driven decision making
• Act as a central engineering point of contact for cross functional teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment of engineering resourcing, goals and strategies

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision offerings for you and your dependents
• Equity for full time employees
• Unlimited PTO
• 11+ paid holidays
• 3 months Parental leave
• Fully Remote Company
• Company-sponsored monthly wellness stipend
• Company-sponsored monthly coworking stipend
• Pre-tax Commuter and FSA/Dependent Care FSA, and HSA options
• 401(k) plan
• High quality home and kitchen product + swag, F&F discounts