Lead Engineer at Pangaea

The Role

• We're looking for someone to lead the design and architecture of building our new E-commerce Platform. This platform will handle e-commerce tools, tax / duty calculations, subscription management, and storefront capabilities for our own internal brands for millions of visitors a year.
• You will be responsible for pushing tasks, making technical decisions and writing maintainable, good-quality code. The scope of the features that you will work on may change on a monthly basis depending on the priorities of the team.
• You will be expected to have a thorough understanding of web applications, back-end architecture and well-designed schema structures.
• You will work closely with the Product Manager of the team to understand technical tasks that need to be pushed.
• A successful candidate should be able to work with other engineers on the team and should oversee that the technical velocity + code quality are properly balanced throughout the building phase of the project.
• You will be working closely with the Head of Engineering to collaborate on technical decisions but also on the team’s morale and hiring needs.
• We are a big fan of product-minded engineers who can tackle problems without the need for overly scoped out guidelines.
• We love engineers who put importance to the value of the features that are being built, and a successful candidate should not only be able to execute the project scope given but also ideate with the product owners & engineers on the team.
• While technical ability is very important to engineers at Pangaea, we expect this role to also be a team lead whose responsibilities often extend beyond purely technical ownership.

Requirements

• 4+ years working as a Full Stack Engineer.
• Great sense of API design and data modeling (in relational databases like MySQL / Postgres)
• Experience working with React, Redux
• Experience building APIs with Node + Express
• Experience in Laravel is a plus but not required.
• Experience in a large scale refactor / re-architecture (Monolith to SoA is a plus)
• Aww proven track record of technical leadership through large scale projects
• Product and Business acumen, the first customers of this platform are our own brands
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in the Logistics or E-commerce industry is a huge plus

Current Technologies We Use:

• Docker, AWS, TypeScript, React, NextJS, Laravel (PHP), Node.