Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Technical Lead role is featured because it sits at a core SaaS leverage point: building the crawling and data-collection foundation that multiple product lines depend on. In subscription software, the reliability and consistency of shared data platforms directly shape product quality, customer trust, and the pace at which new capabilities can be shipped. The remit spans platform engineering and infrastructure, which signals a mandate beyond a single service or feature.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps to durable platform competencies: designing distributed systems, setting service architecture standards, and building observability and workflow orchestration that support ongoing iteration. Leading technical strategy and roadmap shaping also develops the “platform owner” skill set that becomes increasingly valuable as SaaS organizations standardize internal tooling and consolidate data pipelines across products.
The listing points to a strong fit for an experienced engineer who enjoys ambiguous problem spaces and prefers end-to-end accountability over narrowly scoped execution. It also suits someone comfortable switching between hands-on deep dives and cross-functional alignment, with an interest in mentoring while maintaining architectural ownership of a critical internal platform.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
@CommerceIQ, you will :
- You will be responsible for building a reliable, scalable crawl platform based provide a unified based data across all CIQ product lines.
- You will be working on problems that span from platform to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
- Define and drive technical strategy, collaborating with managers to prioritize and shape the team's roadmap.
- Lead high-impact projects, handling ambiguous problem statements and delivering scalable solutions.
- Own system design and architecture, ensuring reliability, observability, and best practices.
- Mentor and lead engineers, fostering growth, technical excellence, and high-quality execution.
- Bridge cross-functional gaps, coordinating between stakeholders to align on technical decisions.
- Review designs, documents, and PRs, maintaining high code and system quality.
- Develop a deep understanding of the platforms, ensuring comprehensive ownership.
- Get your hands dirty and pick up coding and deep dives.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 3+ years of experience in leading small to medium-sized teams.
- Expertise in scalable, distributed systems with strong problem-solving skills.
- Hands-on experience with observability, developer experience, and performance optimizations.
- Knowledge on AWS, Spark, Databases, Streaming, Containers, Kubernetes will be an added advantage.
- Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, and drive solutions.
- You measure success by the impact you create, not by the line of code you ship.
- You take charge and become a human orchestrator, connecting the dots between different Stakeholders and team members when required.
- High Level of independence. We need people who can function independently and collaboratively.
- Data-intensive application experience (ETL/ELT) is a plus.
