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CWI lists this Engineering Manager, eCommerce opportunity in lincolnshire, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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Engineering Manager For EcommerceThree brands. One commerce platform. A frontend in the middle of a rebuild. The Engineering Manager for eCommerce leads the team behind Camping World, Overton's, and The House, all running on Salesforce Commerce Cloud. We're moving those storefronts to a headless frontend on Next.js and Vercel right now, and this person leads the migration from the front of the line, not from behind a dashboard.This is a player-coach role. You'll lead a team of roughly 10 engineers across the US, Mexico, and India, a blend of full-time employees and contractor partners, AND you'll write code alongside them. You'll pick up stories, pair with engineers, review pull requests, and challenge architecture decisions from inside the codebase. We are not looking for someone who only manages people. We're looking for someone who leads by building.You'll sit on the Digital Consumer Products team and partner closely with the Engineering Manager for RV Sales and the Sr. Manager of QA. You'll tie every piece of engineering work to the business value it creates. And you'll help us unleash AI across the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and design through coding, testing, and release.Success looks like a headless storefront shipping in increments without breaking what already works, a distributed team operating as ONE team regardless of timezone or employment type, AI embedded in how the team builds every day, and a platform the business trusts when peak season hits.Key ResponsibilitiesLead the TeamBuild alongside the teamOwn the headless migrationUnleash AI across the SDLCRun a multi-brand platformRaise the engineering barPartner across digital consumer productsManage vendor and contractor partnersWhat Success Looks LikeFirst 90 DaysYou've shipped code to production yourself and know the codebase, the brands, and the migration plan well enough to put your own stamp on the roadmap.You've built a steady 1:1 and team cadence across all 3 countries, and every engineer knows what good looks like.You've named the top risks to the headless migration and put a plan against each one.You've baselined how the team uses AI today and laid out where it goes next across the SDLC.First 12 MonthsReal customer traffic runs on the headless frontend, with performance and SEO at parity or better.AI is embedded across the team's SDLC with measurable gains in cycle time and quality, not just licenses handed out.The distributed team ships on a predictable cadence under shared standards, and full-time and contractor engineers are indistinguishable by the quality of their work.Leadership can see the business value behind the roadmap, and the business trusts the platform through peak season.Required Qualifications7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a player-coach or engineering manager role leading engineers directly.Currently hands-on. You still write production code and are ready to prove it in a technical interview.Hands-on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (B2C Commerce), including storefront development, cartridges, and platform APIs.Strong command of modern frontend engineering, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and server-rendered web applications.Demonstrated experience unleashing AI across the SDLC, with real examples of AI tools and agents changing how a team plans, builds, tests, and ships.A proven ability to tie engineering work to business value and communicate it in terms leadership can act on.Proven experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries and timezones, ideally including nearshore or offshore engineers.Experience leading a blended team of full-time employees and contractors, including holding vendor partners accountable to delivery and quality.A track record running production eCommerce platforms at scale, including peak season readiness and incident management.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.Highly PreferredProduction experience with headless or composable commerce architecture, ideally headless Salesforce Commerce Cloud.Hands-on experience with Next.js and Vercel, including SSR, ISR, edge rendering, and caching strategies.Experience leading a storefront replatform or migration from a monolithic frontend to a headless architecture.Preferred QualificationsDeep familiarity with SCAPI, OCAPI, SLAS, and SFCC Business Manager.Experience running multi-brand or multi-site commerce on a shared platform.Background in retail, outdoor, marine, RV, or specialty retail environments.Working knowledge of SEO, accessibility (WCAG), and Core Web Vitals in a commerce context.Familiarity with our stack or close analogs, including Vercel, Harness or comparable CI/CD, Dynatrace or comparable observability, Kong or comparable API gateway, Linear, and Confluence.Core CompetenciesPlayer-coach. Leads from inside the code, not from a dashboard.AI multiplier. Puts AI to work across the SDLC and proves the gains with real numbers.Business obsession. Cares more about conversion than syntax, and ties the work to value.One-team mindset. US, Mexico, or India, full-time or contractor, one team and one standard.Pragmatic judgment. Boring, reliable tech where it counts, new tech where it multiplies.Updates on evidence. Changes their mind when they hear a better argument.Why Join UsLead a headless replatform across 3 brands, the kind of project most engineering leaders get once or twice in a career.Help set the pace for how AI reshapes software delivery across Digital Consumer Products.Shape the engineering culture of a distributed team while still building every day.
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