eCommerce Tech Lead

London, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Noli is a Beauty Tech startup backed by L’Oréal Group, founded in 2024 to solve one of the biggest pain points in the beauty industry: helping users find the right beauty products for their needs. Based in London (Holborn), Noli is on an exciting growth journey in the online beauty space. At Noli, our vibrant culture drives everything we do – we’re ambitious, curious, and deeply committed to empowering our team and our users. We put people first, embrace innovation, and foster a creative, inclusive environment where everyone thrives. 

The role: As eCommerce Tech Lead, you will be responsible for the technical leadership and execution of our core product development. You will guide a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality code, efficient design, and timely delivery of features. This role demands a blend of hands-on development skills, strategic thinking, and strong communication abilities to collaborate effectively with product and design teams. You'll be a key player in shaping our technical direction and mentoring junior engineers to elevate their skills and contributions. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact on a rapidly evolving product and to grow your leadership capabilities within a dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Guide the team towards pragmatic, efficient solutions, avoiding over-engineering and focusing on delivering core value. Champion clean, well-documented code and efficient design.
• Collaboration: Work hand in hand with the Product Manager and Designer, ensuring open communication to communicate ideas and opinions. Proactively communicate changes and maintain alignment.
• Solutioning and Architecture: Design and implement solutions that maximize impact with minimal effort. Prioritize iterative progress and long-term efficiency, focusing on delivering value now and building for the future.
• Development: Contribute high-quality, well-documented code to the codebase. Maintain a clean, efficient codebase by adhering to best practices and conducting thorough code reviews.
• Delivery Management: Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies. Monitor team progress and velocity, balancing feature development with technical debt reduction and codebase improvements. Support product managers in roadmap creation, task definition, and work breakdown.
• Team Management: Work effectively with stakeholders across various business functions. Mentor junior and mid-level developers, fostering their growth. Contribute to technical hiring and interviews. Facilitate knowledge sharing and technical upskilling across the team and organization.
  
  

Requirements For The Role

• 5+ years’ of software development, with recent experience in retail/eCommerce
• Experience with modern frontend architectures best practices, including bundle and content delivery
• Experience building and maintaining a reusable component library for rapid iterations
• Experience working on consumer-facing eCommerce applications, with a preference toward consumer goods
• Experience integrating content management systems (CMS)
• Experience with SEO and site optimization techniques
• Experience with product analytics frameworks and implementation (Amplitude, GTM, etc)
• Experience with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation
• Experience building frontends dealing with eventual consistency, requiring resiliency-by-design
• Technical Experience
• Required: React, Typescript.
• Preferred: NextJS, Chakra UI, Contentful (or similar headless CMS), Containerization.
• Bonus: OAuth / OIDC, Microservices, CommerceTools, Adyen, Amplitude, Google Tag Manager, GraphQL.
  

About our Noli culture: 

At Noli, our vibrant culture is the heart of everything we do. We believe in creating an environment where innovation, curiosity, and empowerment thrive. Our values define us and shape the way we work together to transform the beauty industry. 

• Founded for the People: We put our users at the centre of everything. We constantly learn from them, challenge biases, and adapt our products to meet their unique needs. 
• Boundlessly Ambitious: We believe in limitless potential. Our team sets high expectations and pushes boundaries to achieve great things. 
• Relentlessly Curious: The beauty industry is always evolving, and so are we. We embrace new technologies and stay connected to the latest trends to keep us ahead of the curve. 
• Positively Glowing: We’re passionate about inspiring each other and bringing light to the beauty world. Our energy is contagious, and it fuels our creativity. 
• Empowered: We empower doers with radical ownership. We eliminate stagnation and encourage innovation by giving our team the freedom to experiment and create. 
• Unique & United: We celebrate diversity in all its forms. We value different perspectives, foster mutual care, and strive to be better, together. 
  
  

Join us at Noli and help us redefine the beauty experience!