Position Title:                        Principal / Senior Software Engineer E-commerce

Location:                                 Framingham, MA US

Position Summary:

Senior Software Engineers E-commerce partner with both the business and technical teams to innovate and deliver new features and enhancements for the E-commerce platform.  This position focuses on the design, development, and support of on-line, customer facing, E-commerce business solutions.

Senior Software Engineers E-commerce creates and/or modify moderate to highly complex solutions that meet the expectations of stakeholders.  They have a good knowledge of web application systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and support E-commerce projects throughout all phases of the software development life cycle

• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out system changes

• Work with engineers and other cross functional teams like Product Management, Project Management, Release Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations teams etc. to develop innovative solutions that meet E-commerce market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles

• Lead E-commerce product initiatives, recommend improvements, mentor and guide junior team members

• Identify project risks and work effectively to mitigate them

• Find and help fix stability/scalability issues in a very time critical environment

• Support site rollouts and be available to resolve site issues

• Develop industry and product technical expertise

Required Skills: 

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds


• Solid understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3


• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks like jQuery, Angular, React


• Experience with XML and JSON technologies.


• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX


• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues


• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD


• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js


• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN


• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance


• Proficiency in building reusable components and moduls