Director, Engineering - Commerce

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive the vision and execution of the next-generation commerce platform leading the shift to a rich, durable catalog domain model
• Champion clear domain boundaries and enforced contracts — moving the organization off direct cross-domain database access and toward integration through APIs and published events.
• Lead the team's transition to an AI-first engineering culture and spec-driven development
• Oversee platform architecture for scalability, reliability, security, and compliance — with particular rigor for payments and financially sensitive transactions.
• Drive alignment across squads and cross-functional partners to deliver key initiatives while managing competing priorities and trade-offs between speed, technical debt, and innovation.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to make commerce smarter — improving pricing, promotion, and checkout experiences that increase conversion and retention.
• Own staffing and organizational strategy — hiring, headcount planning, and structuring teams to match the evolving needs of the Commerce domain.

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