Director of Engineering – Hands-On Architect

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🌐 Canada, Mexico, +1 more countries – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🛍️ eCommerce

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Space Dinosaurs is a retail-focused digital agency that helps brands modernize, optimize, and scale their e‑commerce presence. They build and maintain composable and traditional e-commerce experiences (Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento, etc. ), specialize in performance optimization (Core Web Vitals, CDN/edge delivery), and deliver AI-driven retail capabilities (recommendations, conversational commerce, predictive merchandising) through their Evolve platform and AI-enabled engineering. They also provide UX/CX design, analytics/KPI tracking, and cost/stability optimization for enterprise retail clients, and list results with well-known brands (Coach, Mattress Firm, Shoe Carnival, etc. ). Headquartered in Chicago, they position themselves as outcome‑obsessed specialists for retail brands.

📋 Description

• Own delivery outcomes and velocity across delivery teams • Diagnose systemic bottlenecks and remove architectural or process blockers • Hire, develop, and performance-manage engineering managers, leads, and architects • Build the engineering leadership layer • Define frontend architecture patterns, rendering strategies, and performance standards for multiple delivery teams • Drive story refinement and documentation standards • Establish standards and workflow patterns that enable effective AI-agent execution across squads • Partner with PMs and stakeholders across time zones • Manage competing priorities across client engagements while maintaining delivery quality • Coach managers on cross-cultural communication and proactive async collaboration • Develop managers' ability to represent technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences • Own people, architecture, and delivery across multiple squads and client engagements • Represent Engineering in senior client conversations • Shape engineering standards across the organization • Remain hands-on on key initiatives, contributing approximately 20–30% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in engineering management • Experience managing managers, leads, or architects, not just individual contributors • Architectural judgment in modern frontend systems • Experience defining Next.js architecture patterns, state management, and performance standards • Delivery ownership in agency or professional services environments • Experience running client engagements across competing priorities while maintaining quality • Strong written and verbal English • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across the US, Europe, and LATAM • Experience developing managers' communication skills across cultures • Evidence of establishing standards and workflow patterns for effective AI-agent use across a squad • Experience with spec-driven development, code review for AI-generated output, and coaching engineers to decompose work for reliable agent execution • Preferred: hands-on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Shopify Plus/Hydrogen • Preferred: familiarity with composable commerce patterns, MACH architecture, or headless CMS platforms • Proficiency with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, SCAYLE, Vercel, CI/CD pipelines, Cursor and/or Claude Code, ChatGPT, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Slack, Jira, and Confluence

🏖️ Benefits

• Market-aligned pay • Comprehensive benefits • Bonus structures where applicable • Unlimited PTO • 100% remote work • Growth and development opportunities • Premium AI tooling licenses (Cursor and/or Claude Code) for the entire team • Organizational support for building AI-first delivery practices

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