Havenly

Engineering Team Lead, Owned & Operated E-commerce

Havenly$150K — $180K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven hands-on engineering experience with ecommerce platforms, particularly Shopify (Hydrogen and Liquid).
  • Full-stack capability across APIs, third-party integrations, feeds, and payments systems.
  • Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams to improve skills and workflows.
  • Strong prioritization skills with an emphasis on clear, effective communication with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with using AI in coding, review processes, and to enhance team efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the migration of multiple brand storefronts to a unified Shopify platform.
  • Ensure stability and reliability of five storefronts, minimizing downtime and rapid recovery.
  • Streamline the process of fulfilling business requests to improve turnaround time.
  • Elevate team performance through best practices and AI integration in development processes.
  • Conduct code reviews and coach engineers to foster skill development and enhance output.

Benefits

  • Generous PTO and volunteer days off.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with company matching contributions.
  • Discounts on design services, furniture, and merchandise.
Full Job Description
What you'll own

  • Delivery across five brand storefronts on Shopify Hydrogen, Shopify Liquid, and Magento: a steady, well-prioritized flow of site updates, integrations, and fixes.
  • The reliability of those storefronts and the third-party integrations behind them: payments, feeds, analytics, marketing tools, and ERP/OMS (NetSuite).
  • Intake and prioritization with the business, turning merchandising, marketing, and operations requests into shipped work.
  • The team itself: code review, standards, coaching, and helping engineers take on more.
  • How the team uses AI to move faster without lowering the quality bar.

Real problems you'll work on

  • Help lead the migration of our brands onto Shopify, consolidating onto a single platform over the coming year.
  • Keep five storefronts and their integrations stable, with few surprises and fast recovery when something breaks.
  • Shorten the turnaround on site updates and requests from the business.
  • Level up the team's practices and output, with AI as a real part of how they build.

What success looks like

  • In 90 days: you know the brands, the stack, and the team, you're shipping alongside them, and you've tightened how work comes in and gets prioritized.
  • In a year: turnaround on business requests is faster, the sites are more stable, the team's practices and output have stepped up, and the engineers on it have grown.

How we work with AI

AI is central to how we build, and we're investing heavily in it, well beyond writing code or automating a few tasks.

  • We're building our own internal harness so real engineering work, like error resolution, bug fixes, and feature enhancements, can run around the clock with agents, not only during business hours.
  • Engineers use Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor every day.
  • We want a leader who pushes this forward, designs how the team works with agents, reviews what they produce against the requirements, and keeps the quality bar high.

Must-haves

  • You're a strong, hands-on engineer who still wants to be in the code while leading a team.
  • You have deep, hands-on experience building and running ecommerce platforms, with Shopify as the primary requirement (Hydrogen and Liquid). Magento experience is a plus.
  • You're full-stack across the surrounding systems: APIs, third-party integrations, feeds, and payments.
  • You've led or mentored engineers and can raise a team's bar, coach people, and improve how they work.
  • You're strong at prioritization and clear communication with non-technical partners.
  • You use AI to build and review code and to speed up the team.

Nice to have

  • Experience replatforming or migrating ecommerce sites, ideally onto Shopify.
  • Multi-brand or multi-storefront commerce experience.
  • Experience with feed and catalog systems and ERP/OMS (NetSuite) integrations.
  • Experience leading a distributed team.

Technologies we use

  • AI: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and internal AI tools.
  • Storefronts: Shopify Hydrogen (React Router, TypeScript) on Cloudflare/Oxygen, Shopify Liquid, Magento, Sanity CMS.
  • Backend and data: PHP, Node/TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, dbt/Airflow, Snowflake.
  • Commerce systems: NetSuite (ERP/OMS), product catalog and feeds, payments, analytics and marketing integrations.
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker.

Interview process

An initial phone screen, followed by two to three rounds of interviews with the team to confirm technical skill, personal fit, and role alignment.

Additional details

  • Location: this is a US-based role, open to remote candidates anywhere in the United States. Denver is a plus but not required.
  • Compensation: $150,000 to $180,000, depending on experience. This role is also eligible for company equity.
  • Benefits: generous PTO, volunteer days off, medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, free design services, furniture discounts, and merchandise credits.
  • We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.

About Havenly

Havenly is an online interior design service that connects clients with professional interior designers. The company was founded in 2014 by Lee Mayer and Emily Motayed. Havenly offers a range of design services, including full room designs, design consultations, and a la carte services. The company has raised over $57 million in funding and has been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, The New York Times, and Architectural Digest.
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Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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