Reports to: Chief Growth Officer
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica (Hybrid)
About the RoleOur retail platform is scaling across multiple brands and needs a senior engineer who can own a service area end-to-end - setting technical direction, writing production code daily, and raising the bar for the developers around you. As
Software Engineer (Team Lead), you will serve as the technical owner for a core area of our retail service cloud, designing approaches, contributing code, and mentoring engineers while driving the roadmap from legacy replacement through new feature delivery.
In your first 6-12 months, success means you have shipped meaningful improvements to the platform, replaced targeted legacy services, and established clear technical standards that the team follows without prompting.
This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.
What You'll Do- Serve as technical owner for your area or service within the retail service cloud, setting architecture direction and maintaining quality standards
- Design, build, and ship features - reading and writing code daily alongside the team
- Identify and resolve technical challenges across the stack, from profiling and refactoring to scaling the platform
- Replace legacy code and services with modern, maintainable solutions and optimize the overall stack
- Build frameworks and reusable patterns for upcoming projects across the portfolio
- Plan and communicate product roadmaps, triage sprint tickets, and push back on requests when technical tradeoffs demand it
- Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and hands-on problem solving
- Help build the team by driving developer productivity and contributing to hiring decisions
Required Qualifications- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js
- Proficiency / production experience with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB.
- Comfortable with IAM and CloudWatch for debugging + least-privilege design
- Experience with Python and Django or comparable server-side frameworks
- Track record of owning a product or service area technically - architecture decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other engineers while remaining a significant individual contributor
- Experience replacing or modernizing legacy systems in a production environment
- Comfort triaging competing priorities, planning sprints, and communicating technical details to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong opinions on code quality and engineering best practices, held loosely enough to find the best solution collaboratively
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with retail, e-commerce, or multi-brand platform environments
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns
- Prior experience in a technical lead role on a small, high-output team
Why JoinThe people who do best here are builders. They take ownership, move fast, and want to see the direct impact of their work.
- Cross-Functional Impact: Your technical decisions will shape services that power multiple brands across the portfolio - the scope of your work is visible and immediate.
- Skill Building: Work alongside senior engineers who will challenge your thinking, with daily exposure to modern frameworks, platform-scale problems, and AI-augmented tooling.
- End-to-End Ownership: Own your service area from architecture through delivery - no waiting for approvals or handing off to another team.
- Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
Interview Process- Recruiter Screen - A 30-minute conversation with our recruiting team to align on the role, your background, and what you are looking for.
- Hiring Manager Interview - A deeper conversation focused on your technical leadership experience, how you approach ownership of a service area, and team dynamics.
- Technical / Coding Challenge - A hands-on coding exercise to assess your problem-solving approach, code quality, and comfort working in the stack.
- Possible In-Person Interview - Details and logistics will be arranged with your recruiter.
- Reference Checks - Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.
- Offer - We move quickly for the right candidate.
Interview process is subject to change. Any updates will be communicated promptly and clearly.
