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:
- 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
