Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Serve as the technical owner for your domain or service within our Retail Service Cloud.
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of the technical roadmap — from building new features to scaling the platform.
- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges while ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Architect and implement frameworks that power upcoming projects.
- Modernize and optimize our technology stack by replacing legacy code and services.
Team Development
- Build and mentor a team of developers, driving productivity, growth, and engineering excellence.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact, clearly communicating decisions and pushing back on requests when necessary to maintain quality and focus.
Delivery & Operations
- Plan and manage sprints, triage tickets, and contribute to product roadmap discussions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or engineering management role with direct reports.
- Proficiency in modern frameworks and languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, or Django.
- Demonstrated ability to be at least 50% hands-on — writing, reviewing, and debugging production code — while also managing a team and driving technical strategy.
- Experience owning a domain or service end-to-end: architecture decisions, roadmap planning, and delivery.
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers and improving team productivity and code quality.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and decisions must be made with incomplete information.
- Experience building platforms or shared services in a multi-brand or multi-tenant retail or e-commerce environment.
- Familiarity with AI/ML tooling, prompt engineering, or integrating LLM-based features into production systems.
- Prior experience working in or alongside a platform team supporting multiple internal engineering customers.
- Background in modernizing legacy systems or leading platform migration projects at scale.
- Recruiter Screen: A 30-minute call with our recruiting team to discuss your background, the role, and what you are looking for in your next opportunity.
- Technical Challenge: A short take-home or live coding challenge so we can understand how you approach problems, architecture decisions, and execution.
- Leadership & Technical Interviews: Deep-dive conversations with CSC engineering leadership covering your technical background, management approach, product mindset, and how you have driven results.
- In-Person Interview: An on-site visit to meet the broader team and work through a real technical or operational problem together.
- Reference Checks: Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.
- Offer: We move quickly for the right candidate.
CSC Generation is the AI-native holding company re-engineering omnichannel retail. We acquire iconic brands and transform them with Genesis, our operating platform combining a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins. With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, our portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and others that serve as real-world innovation labs.
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Location: Austin (Hybrid) / Remote (United States)
CSC Generation is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The CSC Generation family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures.
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