Position: Lead Engineer
Company: growth.shop
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**What you’ll do:**
- Set the technical direction of our e-commerce sites, tools and applications and make sure those decisions help us build stable, performant and scalable solutions
- Manage our team of high performing engineering freelancers
- Help to build great processes around dev ops/continuous delivery and code quality
- Maintain SLAs so that our sites and applications maintain a high level of availability, they are secure and the highest quality is established
- Work closely with our conversions team to ensure conversion rates are ever-improving. Monitor these to spot technical issues and resolve them in a timely manner
- Work tirelessly to reduce our page load speed across all sites through code best practice, back end infrastructure and caching technologies
- Work with our data team to make sure that application & event data is available in a timely fashion to their data stores and connections
- Get your hands dirty with front-end, back-end and dev ops code

**Your experience:**
- 5-7 years+ experience building and managing engineering teams
- You’re highly self-motivated, operational/process driven
- Ability to handle and interrogate complex technical challenges and come up with workable solutions. 
- You love to build, lead and mentor engineers
- You have extensive experience working with HTML/CSS, Php, MySql, DevOps and AWS
- You have managed a scaled e-commerce platform - either Woocommerce, Shopify or Magento 
- You’re an A+ executor but also think creatively
- You self educate and invest in your own personal growth
- You’re confident, express your opinions, but are completely open-minded and care more about the right outcome vs just pushing your opinion
- You get that life shouldn’t be too serious
- You can operate with multiple time zones. You’re not a 9-5 type

**What Else Do I Need To Know?**
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays – this includes a guarantee for your birthday if you want it
- Friendly international team