Job Summary

The Staff Engineer, Store/Digital serves as a strategic technical leader with broad influence across multiple product teams. In addition to guiding software design, development, and lifecycle management, the Staff Engineer drives cross-team collaboration, sets technical direction, and ensures alignment with organizational objectives. This role requires a system-level perspective to anticipate and address engineering challenges, reduce technical risk, and elevate engineering effectiveness at scale. The Staff Engineer partners with engineers, architects, vendors, and the open-source community to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and organizational outcomes.

Duties And Responsibilities (other Duties As Assigned)

· Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve unified outcomes.

· Apply system-level thinking to identify and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions.

· Proactively assess and mitigate technical risks, supporting the organization in delivering reliable products and services.

· Champion engineering effectiveness by implementing best practices, optimizing workflows, and mentoring engineers to enhance productivity and quality.

· Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize it

· Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization

· Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered

· Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users

· Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties

· Defines service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work

· Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production

· Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Education, Experience & Certifications

· 6+ plus years of hands-on software development experience in either React or Next.js, or similar web frameworks

· Mastery of JavaScript and TypeScript programming languages

· 4+ years of experience mentoring and giving work direction to Developers

· 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and architecting customer-facing eCommerce applications

Functional Skills

· Analytical Skills: effectively uses data to generate insights

· Planning & Prioritization: highest impact, highest value

· Financial & Business Acumen

· Communicates Effectively and Candidly

· Problem Solving; ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions

· Process Improvement: Strive to continually improve

· Ability to build and leverage talent

· Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and to adapt to new situations as they arise

· Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders

· Ability to work cross-functionality on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects