Tech Lead – Checkouts

About Trafilea

Trafilea is a Consumer Tech Platform for Transformative Brand Growth. We’re building the AI Growth Engine that powers the next generation of consumer brands.

With over $1B+ in cumulative revenue, 12M+ customers, and 500+ talents across 19 countries, we combine technology, growth marketing, and operational excellence to scale purpose-driven, digitally native brands.

We own and operate our own digitally native brands (not an agency), with presence in Walmart, Nordstrom, and Amazon, and a strong global D2C footprint.

Why Trafilea

We’re a tech-led eCommerce group scaling our own globally loved DTC brands, while helping ambitious talent grow just as fast.

🚀 We build and scale our own brands.

🦾 We invest in AI and automation like few others in eCom.

📈 We test fast, grow fast, and help you do the same.

🤝 Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and talented global team.

🌍 100% Remote, USD competitive salary, paid time off, and more.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the technical evolution of Trafilea’s checkout ecosystem, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design and deliver new features across frontend, middleware, and core APIs (checkout, upselling, taxes).
• Drive architecture improvements, refactoring initiatives, and technical quality standards.
• Ensure platform performance, uptime, and monitoring (latency, error rates, quality gates).
• Partner with Product and Business teams to translate goals into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead agile delivery and promote engineering best practices within the team.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading technical initiatives in software development teams.
• Solid experience designing and evolving distributed systems and APIs.
• Strong background in backend and frontend development for high-traffic platforms.
• Proven experience with SQL schemas, stored procedures, and database design.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Strong code quality mindset: testing, code reviews, clean architecture, and maintainability.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Passionate mentor with a reputation for raising engineering standards.
• Exceptional communicator—fluent in English, collaborative across disciplines.
• You lead with autonomy, always with big-picture strategic clarity.

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