Principal Engineer, Ecommerce & Digital Experiences

Company: Levi Strauss & Co.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Principal Engineer, Ecommerce & Digital Experiences
You're an original. So are we.
We're a company of people who like to forge our own path. We invented the blue jean in 1873, and we reinvented khaki pants in 1986. We pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing. And we work to build sustainability into everything we do. Our brands stand for freedom and self-expression around the world.
Where we lead, others follow. For more than 160 years, we've used the strength of our brands to lead with our values and make an outsized impact on the world. We employ more than 15,000 people globally to support our great brands: Levi's, Dockers, Denizen, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co. and Beyond Yoga.
About the Job
As the Principal Engineer, Ecommerce & Digital Experiences, you'll be at the forefront of our digital transformation journey. You'll focus on improving modeling, design, performance, scalability, and reliability. You'll help mentor engineers across the team and help establish one of the greatest tech teams outside of a tech company.

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• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.
  
• Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy.
  
• Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
  
• Leads the enterprise in domain-driven design and event-driven architecture.
  
• Acts as a technical expert and provides coding best practices and knowledge for complex engineering challenges.
  
• Provides architectural oversight and guidance toward a simple and domain-based architecture.
  
• Leads adoption and best practices for event-driven architecture and defining and handling events.
  
• Provides guidance and direction on creating systems that have high reliability, scalability, reusability, simplicity, and are secure.
  
• Provides guidance and direction on building telemetry and proper dashboards and alerts.
  
• Acts as an expert in the software development lifecycle and can guide a team in agile and help improve the efficiency of a team.
  
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, advancements in service health, and identify opportunities for innovation within the field.
  
• Build bridges with cross-functional teams, bringing together product management, UX design, business unit leaders, and engineering to deliver a flagship website experience for our consumers.
  
• Foster a product-led, customer-centric culture where our consumers and their experience with our brands is at the heart of every decision we make.
  
• Prioritize talent development and help with hiring new talent and grow engineers that are already at Levi Strauss & Co.
  
  About You
  
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  • 15+ years of experience in product and/or platform engineering role, with tangible accomplishments in ecommerce or similar customer-facing digital experiences and APIs.
    
  • Solid business acumen, coupled with deep technical experience applying your vast experience across the stack.
    
  • Unwavering customer-focused ethos, placing the consumer at the core of all decisions.
    
  • Demonstrated success working with geographically-distributed teams and in navigating the complexities associated with different locations and time zones.
    
  • Mastery of modern software development practices, including agile and lean tenets, CI/CD, and the broader DevOps movement with demonstrated improvements to software delivery performance.
    
  • Ability to connect, communicate, inspire, and catalyze collaboration across a spectrum of departments and functions.
    
    The expected starting salary range for this role is $166,000 to $250,000. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.
    Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive plans, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request.
    Levi Strauss & Co. is committed to equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and recruiting and maintaining a workforce that welcomes and respects people from diverse backgrounds while enabling our employees to make an impact. We value the unique combination of talents, experiences, and perspectives of each employee, making our collective success possible.
    EOE M/F/Disability/Vets
    LOCATION
    San Francisco, CA, USA
    FULL TIME/PART TIME
    Full time
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