Description
As the Engineering Manager Order Management System (OMS), you will lead the design, development, and evolution of a large-scale, distributed eCommerce platform that processes high transaction volumes and complex integrations.You'll guide a full-stack engineering team, ensure system scalability and resilience, and foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the full product lifecycle from conceptualization, architecture, and design to implementation, deployment, and maintenance of OMS and its integrations.
- Lead and mentor a team of 10+ engineers, driving delivery excellence and technical growth across backend and frontend development streams.
- Architect and scale distributed systems capable of handling large volumes of orders, inventory updates, and third-party data exchanges.
- Drive eCommerce integration strategy, including marketplaces, ERPs, WMS, payment gateways, and 3PL systems, ensuring robust data synchronization.
- Take technical ownership of backend and frontend components from database schema and API design to UI architecture and performance optimization.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices, including coding standards, CI/CD, observability, and security compliance.
- Be hands-on when required contribute to code, review critical modules, and troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and data integrity, embedding performance and security into every design decision.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, QA, DevOps, and Customer Success teams to align technical delivery with business priorities.
- Drive team recruitment and development, conducting technical interviews and building a strong engineering culture.
What You'll Bring
- 12+ years of overall software engineering experience, with 4- 5 years of hands-on Ruby on Rails (RoR) backend development.
- Proven experience in building and scaling distributed, event-driven systems handling high transaction volumes.
- Strong Angular experience, leading teams that deliver rich, responsive web applications.
- Deep understanding of eCommerce and OMS domain concepts order lifecycle, inventory, shipments, returns, and partner integrations.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL/MySQL schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, webhooks, and integration patterns for external systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment.
- Demonstrated success as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead, mentoring engineers and managing delivery across multiple modules.
- Passion for building reliable, secure, and performant systems that deliver measurable business impact.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of ownership, self-motivation, and growth-oriented mindset.
Nice To Have
- Experience with microservices, asynchronous job processing, or message queues (e., Sidekiq, Resque, RabbitMQ).
- Exposure to SaaS or multi-tenant architectures.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and monitoring tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus).
- Understanding of API versioning, rate limiting, and data consistency patterns.
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