Application Development Lead (Adobe Commerce / Magento 2)

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of Business Analysts, Adobe Commerce developers, QA professionals, and technical contributors across multiple regions.
• Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, capacity management, and regular one-on-one meetings.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, code quality, and continuous improvement.
• Manage team coverage, support rotations, and cross-regional handoffs.
• Partner with recruiting and HR to hire, onboard, and retain top technical talent.
• Own the architecture, scalability, security, and reliability of the Adobe Commerce platform, including custom development, integrations, and storefront enhancements.
• Establish coding standards and best practices for PHP, MySQL, and Magento development.
• Lead technical design reviews, create technical specifications, and evaluate build-versus-buy solutions.
• Drive platform upgrades, security initiatives, performance optimization, and system reliability improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving databases, integrations, caching, indexing, and application performance.
• Lead Agile delivery processes, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives using Jira.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to define requirements, user stories, and project estimates.
• Manage sprint commitments, monitor team velocity, identify risks, and remove delivery obstacles.
• Oversee release management processes, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment best practices.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support eCommerce processes including catalog management, pricing, promotions, checkout, payments, order management, shipping, returns, and tax integrations.
• Align engineering priorities with key business metrics such as conversion rates, performance, uptime, and customer experience.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Commerce (Magento 2).
• Deep expertise in PHP, object-oriented programming, and software design principles.
• Advanced MySQL experience, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Experience managing Agile/Scrum development teams using Jira.
• Strong understanding of eCommerce systems, including payments, shipping, inventory, promotions, tax, and customer data management.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, Composer, and Docker.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience collaborating across multiple time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Adobe Commerce certification.
• Experience with Adobe Commerce Cloud and GraphQL APIs.
• Integration experience with ERP, OMS, PIM, CRM, tax, and payment platforms.
• Background supporting high-volume B2B or B2C eCommerce environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, Fastly, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
• Proven success managing offshore or globally distributed development teams.
• Experience operating in organizations utilizing structured asynchronous communication practices.