Software Architect / Tech Lead

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Software Architect / Tech Lead to design and drive a scalable e-commerce architecture, translating business strategy into modern, high-performance technical solutions.

The customer is a digital solutions provider focused on building scalable, high-performance platforms. It leverages modern architectures and data-driven approaches to deliver measurable business outcomes across various industries.

The project is focused on building and evolving a modern e-commerce ecosystem by translating business strategy into scalable technical architecture. It involves leading framework-agnostic decisions around modern meta-frameworks (such as Next.js or Nuxt) and guiding the team through implementation to ensure technical excellence and long-term scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and evolving the technical architecture for our e-commerce platform, with a focus on migrating from monolithic systems to a modern headless architecture.
• Leading the technical strategy for replatforming from a complex legacy system to a modern commerce platform, ensuring mínimal business disruption and maintaining feature parity where needed.
• Contributing to framework selection decisions, evaluating Next.js vs. Nuxt based on project requirements, team expertise, platform integration capabilities, and long-term scalability.
• Making and justifying architectural decisions based on business constraints, scalability requirements, and long-term maintainability.
• Designing architecture with cost efficiency in mind, leveraging platform capabilities to reduce infrastructure complexity and operational overhead.
• Translating architectural vision into actionable tasks, mentoring developers in modern web practices, establishing coding standards and design patterns.
• Serving as the primary technical liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring alignment between technical solutions and business objectives.
• Working closely with Project Managers to break down complex initiatives into deliverable milestones and ensure timely execution.
• Leading discovery and planning sessions for new features, including SSR/ISR strategies, edge computing approaches, and performance optimization.

Requirements:

• Experience with production-scale Next.js, Nuxt, or comparable modern meta-frameworks (Remix, SvelteKit), including deep expertise in SSR, ISR, routing strategies, and caching patterns - 3+ years.
• Proven experience leading migrations from legacy/custom-built e-commerce systems to modern headless platforms.
• Experience architecting within platform constraints and designing integrations with third party services (payments, fulfillment, marketing tools, etc.).
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, modern build tools (Vite, Turbopack, Webpack), and utility-first CSS frameworks (Tailwind CSS).
• Experience with modern edge platforms (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare) including deployment, configuration, and Core Web Vitals optimization.
• Track record leading technical teams through complex migrations and mentoring developers.
• Level of English - from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Desired skills

• Experience with both React and Vue ecosystems, demonstrating framework-agnostic thinking and adaptability.
• Experience evaluating and choosing frameworks based on business requirements, team capabilities, and long-term maintainability.
• Deep expertise with routing strategies, caching patterns, React Server Components or Vue Server Components, and streaming patterns.
• Experience designing and implementing serverless functions and edge computing solutions.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases, extract business logic from legacy systems, and translate requirements into modern architecture patterns.
• Experience with phased rollout approaches, feature flags, parallel-run strategies, and rollback planning to ensure business continuity during platform transitions.
• Expertise modern state management patterns and libraries (Zustand, Jotai, Pinia, React Query/TanStack Query).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise e-commerce platforms.
• Demonstrated success improving Core Web Vitals and page performance in production environments.
• Experience using generative AI tools to accelerate development workflows.
• Implementation experience with NextAuth.js, Nuxt Auth, or similar frameworks, including understanding of OAuth2 flows, session management, and secure token handling.
• Strong testing practices (Jest, Vitest, Playwright) and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing and securing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business