Engineering Team Lead
Spreetail Inc.
IndiaremotePosted 17 days ago
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Key highlights
- 6‑8+ years of software engineering experience required.
- Owns two critical platforms: Customer‑facing BEx and internal Operation Station.
- Leads the development of the Attribution Engine, a core automation and measurement module.
- Drives high‑availability, scalable technical architecture for BEx and Merch Plays.
- Collaborates with cross‑functional partners including Product, Analytics, Merch Ops, Brand Management, and Supply Chain.
- Emphasizes rapid experimentation and shortening feedback loops.
Role overview
The Merch Tech Lead serves as the technical leader who owns key business outcomes and drives them by leading execution across the entire technology stack. Achieving these outcomes requires rapid experimentation, scaling successful experiments, and building infrastructure in phases while guiding a team of highly motivated engineers.
Responsibilities
- Owns the two platforms—Customer-facing BEx and the internal stakeholder-focused Operation Station.
- Owns the core new module, the Attribution Engine, tying automation and measurement.
- Ensures building highly scalable data platforms, intuitive front-end experiences, and reliable workflow automation enabling hundreds of vendors to make better and faster decisions.
- Hands‑on guiding engineers, setting technical strategy, championing AI‑enabled development, and establishing a culture of rapid experimentation.
- Owns the business outcomes for the team in partnership with Product and Design team members.
- Contributes to increased BEx adoption, reduced platform issues, and faster time‑to‑insights for merchants.
- Owns and evolves the technical architecture for BEx and Merch Plays to improve availability, scalability, and data accuracy.
- Drives tech decision‑making that supports the multi‑year growth of Merch Tech platforms, including planning phased, smart, and strategic investment in infrastructure.
- Improves UI/UX performance by reducing latency, increasing data consistency, and strengthening alerting and monitoring systems.
- Ensures high‑quality releases through code reviews, technical oversight, and strong engineering standards.
- Leads the engineering implementation of automation‑driven tooling, new technologies, including workflow engineering and AI.
- Collaborates deeply with Product, Analytics, Merch Ops, Brand Management, and Supply Chain to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Mentors engineers, develops technical leadership on the team, and fosters a culture of curiosity, accountability, and high ownership.
Requirements
- 6‑8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in data platform engineering, backend systems, and front‑end application development.
- Proven ability to design rapid experiments and/or scale up successful experiments and evolve large‑scale distributed platforms; strong communication with various types of stakeholders.
- Experience as part of a small team, preferably in Indian startups.
- Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work in ambiguity with rapid iteration cycles.
- Demonstrated success in influencing cross‑functional partners, including Product, Analytics, Merch Ops, and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor and develop engineers at multiple levels.
Nice to have
- Experience in B2B and e‑commerce would be preferred.
- Prior experience with workflow automation, reporting platforms, or merchant/analytics systems is a plus.
Additional details
- Together, these platforms support multi‑million‑dollar decisions across the business.
- Our goal with them is to leverage heuristics, internal stakeholders’ insights, and AI to drive automation of actions.
- Shortening feedback loops is critical!
- Our users drive multi‑million $ decisions on a daily basis. Their experience is most critical to ensure that it meets a high bar.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.