Director, Ecommerce Engineering

Hanna Andersson

Director of Ecommerce Engineering leading high-performing teams and delivering digital commerce solutions at Hanna Andersson. Guiding ecommerce architecture modernization and enhancing customer experience.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMicroservicesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering organization of 1-4 scrum teams.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, quality of craft, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
Establish clear expectations, monitor organizational health, and ensure the team has the skills, capacity, and engagement necessary to meet business objectives.
Work closely with other IT leaders to ensure platforms, integrations, and services meet enterprise standards for security, reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
Own delivery of the ecommerce engineering roadmap, ensuring predictable execution of strategic initiatives, releases, operational priorities, and production support.
Manage priorities, dependencies, risks, resourcing, and release readiness while improving delivery quality, transparency, and predictability.
Continuously improve engineering operating practices, including Agile delivery, SDLC, QA, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, incident response, and operational support.
Establish and monitor KPIs to assess team and stack performance and use data-driven insights to inform decisions.
Provide technical leadership across ecommerce applications, integrations, architecture, and platform modernization initiatives.
Establish engineering standards that promote scalability, maintainability, extendability, and performance.
Ensure the availability, scalability, security, and performance of customer-facing ecommerce platforms.
Partner with various teams to translate business strategy into technology execution.
Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve customer experience, engineering productivity, and business performance.
Lead strategic relationships with technology vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing software engineering organizations.
Extensive experience delivering customer-facing ecommerce platforms and digital commerce solutions.
Strong understanding of modern ecommerce architectures, including headless or composable commerce platforms, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, APIs, cloud technologies, integrations, and microservices.
Experience integrating ecommerce platforms with payment, merchandising, product and pricing/promotion systems, CRM, OMS, fulfillment, and customer engagement technologies.
Strong knowledge of Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, software quality, observability, security, and engineering best practices.
Experience applying AI-enabled engineering tools and automation to improve software delivery, quality, and operational effectiveness.
Proven ability to balance business priorities, customer experience, delivery speed, technical quality, operational risk, and cost.
Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and decision-making skills.
Experience managing technology vendors, budgets, consulting partners, contracts, and strategic technology investments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including enterprise ecommerce platforms.
5+ years leading engineering teams, managers, or technical organizations.
Experience within retail, direct-to-consumer, apparel, consumer products, or similar digital commerce environments preferred.
Experience leading platform modernization, enterprise systems integration, or digital transformation initiatives strongly preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringEcommerce ArchitectureAPIsCloud TechnologiesMicroservicesCI/CDQuality AssuranceAI-Enabled Engineering ToolsOperational Risk ManagementKPI Monitoring

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder ManagementAnalytical SkillsDecision-Making