Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead)

CSC Generation | Retail and e-commerce

50 minutes ago

On-site

Full Time

Costa Rica

Design Your Future With Us. Creativity lives here. We celebrate craftsmanship, design, and inspired living. Whether you are in marketing, tech, or logistics, your voice and vision matter. We showcase employee spaces, share design stories, and promote growth through a culture of flexibility, storytelling, and opportunity. From onboarding to day-to-day, we help you bring your style to life.

Reports to: Chief Growth Officer

Location: San Jose, Costa Rica (Hybrid)

About the Role

Our retail platform is scaling across multiple brands and needs a senior engineer who can own a service area end-to-end — setting technical direction, writing production code daily, and raising the bar for the developers around you. As Software Engineer (Team Lead), you will serve as the technical owner for a core area of our retail service cloud, designing approaches, contributing code, and mentoring engineers while driving the roadmap from legacy replacement through new feature delivery.

In your first 6–12 months, success means you have shipped meaningful improvements to the platform, replaced targeted legacy services, and established clear technical standards that the team follows without prompting.

This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.

What You'll Do

Serve as technical owner for your area or service within the retail service cloud, setting architecture direction and maintaining quality standards
Design, build, and ship features — reading and writing code daily alongside the team
Identify and resolve technical challenges across the stack, from profiling and refactoring to scaling the platform
Replace legacy code and services with modern, maintainable solutions and optimize the overall stack
Build frameworks and reusable patterns for upcoming projects across the portfolio
Plan and communicate product roadmaps, triage sprint tickets, and push back on requests when technical tradeoffs demand it
Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and hands-on problem solving
Help build the team by driving developer productivity and contributing to hiring decisions

Required Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js
Proficiency / production experience with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB.
Comfortable with IAM and CloudWatch for debugging + least-privilege design
Experience with Python and Django or comparable server-side frameworks
Track record of owning a product or service area technically — architecture decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes
Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other engineers while remaining a significant individual contributor
Experience replacing or modernizing legacy systems in a production environment
Comfort triaging competing priorities, planning sprints, and communicating technical details to non-technical stakeholders
Strong opinions on code quality and engineering best practices, held loosely enough to find the best solution collaboratively

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with retail, e-commerce, or multi-brand platform environments
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns
Prior experience in a technical lead role on a small, high-output team

Why Join

The people who do best here are builders. They take ownership, move fast, and want to see the direct impact of their work.

Cross-Functional Impact: Your technical decisions will shape services that power multiple brands across the portfolio — the scope of your work is visible and immediate.
Skill Building: Work alongside senior engineers who will challenge your thinking, with daily exposure to modern frameworks, platform-scale problems, and AI-augmented tooling.
End-to-End Ownership: Own your service area from architecture through delivery — no waiting for approvals or handing off to another team.
Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.

Interview Process

Recruiter Screen - A 30-minute conversation with our recruiting team to align on the role, your background, and what you are looking for.
Hiring Manager Interview - A deeper conversation focused on your technical leadership experience, how you approach ownership of a service area, and team dynamics.
Technical / Coding Challenge - A hands-on coding exercise to assess your problem-solving approach, code quality, and comfort working in the stack.
Possible In-Person Interview - Details and logistics will be arranged with your recruiter.
Reference Checks - Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.
Offer - We move quickly for the right candidate.

Interview process is subject to change. Any updates will be communicated promptly and clearly.

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. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [apply contact hidden].

Required Skills

awscloudwatchcode_reviewdjangodynamodbiamjavascriptmicroservicesnode_jspythonreacttypescript

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English