[Remote] Engineering Team Lead
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Subscale is an e-commerce and digital marketing company that helps brands grow through digital marketing strategies and state-of-the-art e-commerce platforms. The Engineering Team Lead will lead full-stack development, Shopify storefront optimization, integrations, internal SaaS tools, analytics instrumentation, backend services, and AWS deployments while owning delivery and collaborating with design and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Build + optimize Shopify storefront experiences (Online Store 2.0, Liquid, theme customization, performance, UX polish) with a strong focus on conversion
- Plan and own delivery: scope work, break down initiatives into epics/stories, manage tradeoffs, unblock execution, and hit milestones while keeping stakeholders aligned
- Develop custom integrations and middleware services that connect eCommerce systems (APIs/webhooks), automate workflows, and keep data consistent across platforms
- Build and evolve internal SaaS tools (admin dashboards, reporting/partner portals, automation utilities) with strong DX, authentication, roles/permissions, and maintainable architecture
- Create and maintain SaaS-style internal tools (admin dashboards, reporting/partner portals, automation utilities) with authentication, roles/permissions, and solid DX
- Implement tracking + analytics instrumentation (events, attribution, data quality) so marketing and ops can trust the numbers
- Own backend services (Node/Laravel/Python), database design (SQL first; NoSQL where it fits), and API patterns (REST/GraphQL)
- Ship production code on AWS with clean CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability practices (logs, alerts, error reporting)
- Collaborate closely with design + PM to turn requirements into shipped features fast—then iterate based on performance data
Skills
- • 4+ years full-stack work in eCommerce (Shopify experience a plus)
- • Strong in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one frontend framework React or Vue (Next/Nuxt)
- • Strong backend ability in Node.js and/or Laravel and/or Python, including building APIs, handling webhooks, and integrating third-party systems
- • Experience owning delivery: scoping, breaking down epics, managing tradeoffs, unblocking, and shipping to milestones
- • Comfortable deploying and operating apps on AWS (e.g., S3/CloudFront, RDS, ECS/Lambda, IAM basics)
- • Solid fundamentals: performance, security, code review hygiene, documentation, testability
- • Clear communicator who can own tasks, surface risks early, and work async
- • Track record with data pipelines, ETL, and webhook ingestion
- • Experience with SasS, productized internal tools
- • Shopify Admin/Storefront API, GraphQL, app development, subscription/checkout flows
- • Experience with funnel/checkout systems, CRMs, affiliate tracking, analytics pipelines, server-side tracking
- • Experience building reporting dashboards (event schemas, SQL modeling, data QA)
- • Modern data stack experience: such as dbt, Snowflake / BigQuery,, dlt, Airbyte
- • Applied LLM workflows such as merchant ops automation, automated reporting narratives, insights-to-action pipelines
- • Infrastructure as code such as Terraform
- • Experience with SasS, productized internal tools
Benefits
- Professional development is taken seriously.
- Remote work flexibility.
- A balanced approach to work-life integration.
- Opportunity to play a pivotal role in the success of businesses around the globe.
- Work at the forefront of e-commerce and digital marketing, with opportunities to innovate and experiment.
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