Technical Lead

Global-e (Nasdaq: GLBE) is the world’s leading platform to enable and accelerate global, direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce growth. The chosen partner of hundreds of retailers and brands across the United States, Europe and Asia, Global-e makes selling internationally as simple as selling domestically. With Global-e, retailers and brands can increase international traffic conversion and grow sales by offering customers in over 200 destinations worldwide a seamless localized shopping experience. Our end-to-end e-commerce solutions combine best-in-class localization capabilities, big-data best-practice business intelligence models, streamlined international logistics and vast cross-border experience, enabling online retailers to sell to and from anywhere in the world and seamlessly expand their brand worldwide. Our people play the key role in our success, and we are always looking for more driven, talented and ambitious individuals to join our growing international family.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Tech Lead for Financial Systems is responsible for leading a mission critical product engineering team focused on delivering key capabilities related to Billing and Payout. We have built a world class product that offers our merchants sophisticated capabilities, while keeping the integration streamlined via a canonical API. We are looking for this leader to join and champion the mission of the team.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Team & Process

· Clearly communicates timeline, scope and risks to their component partners relating to new and ongoing projects, and lead the delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines

· Actively shares organizational information with their team, ensuring cascades happen in a timely manner.

· Participates in staffing, prioritization and solutioning conversations in a way that optimizes for the company first; then the engineering team; then their team; then for individual team members (does not put individual needs, or a specific team’s needs over the company needs).

Technical Execution & Operation

· Tracks and maintains the health of systems and product surface area their teams own.

· Manages and tracks technical debt to balance short-term and long-term goals.

· Tracks usage of key concepts in the software development lifecycle, suggesting and implementing process changes to maintain good practice and high-quality output for their team.

· Takes ownership and responsibility for producing maintainable, monitorable, and highly available software systems.

· Maintains a current working knowledge of systems in their sphere of influence by taking part in delivery of bug fixes or small enhancements while not necessarily committing to critical-path features.

· Identifies projects of high value, sets technical direction and roadmap (for services), and accordingly works with team members to manage feature and internal improvement scope to ensure that all deliverables are met.