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Lead Developer, Contentful

🔥 4 hours ago

🇲🇰 North Macedonia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Valtech

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Valtech is a global digital agency focusing on experience innovation. They strive to transform businesses through a combination of technology, marketing, and data strategies. Valtech helps companies elevate their digital presence and drive commerce strategies, enhance enterprise digital transformations, and unlock marketing and performance potential. They also utilize data and AI to help organizations harness the power of information. With offices around the world, Valtech partners with businesses to shape their digital futures, offering a range of services and insights designed to enhance customer experiences.

📋 Description

• Take technical ownership of engineering delivery for an enterprise Sitecore-to-Contentful migration covering content and application migration • Lead the development team, establish engineering standards, and ensure delivery of a scalable, maintainable Contentful-based solution • Lead technical implementation across content, applications, and integrations • Work with architects to shape migration options, Contentful implementation patterns, and technical decisions • Guide migration and modernisation of React frontends and supporting services • Define content modelling, transformation, migration automation, and validation approaches • Coordinate engineering activities, resolve complex technical challenges, and manage dependencies and delivery risks • Remain hands-on for complex implementation, technical spikes, and critical problem-solving • Champion AI-first engineering and establish spec-driven development practices • Apply AI to Sitecore analysis, content mapping, migration automation, code modernisation, and testing • Guide developers in using AI coding assistants and automated engineering workflows • Establish review, security, and quality practices for AI-generated code and migration outputs • Drive experimentation, knowledge sharing, and measurable productivity improvements through AI adoption • Own engineering quality, implementation consistency, and technical delivery outcomes • Establish standards for code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, migration validation, and release readiness • Lead technical planning for migration, cutover, rollback, and post-migration support • Provide technical direction, mentoring, and coaching to developers • Act as a technical contact for client stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams • Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations aligned with business objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Significant engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex digital platform deliveries • Proven experience with enterprise CMS migrations, replatforming, or major headless CMS implementations • Strong practical knowledge of Contentful, Sitecore, and associated migration and integration challenges • Strong understanding of React, TypeScript, API-driven architectures, and application modernisation • Experience leading engineering teams, making technical decisions, and assuring delivery quality • Practical experience with AI-assisted software development and the ability to drive adoption of AI-native, spec-driven engineering practices • Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, release processes, and technical risk management • Strong stakeholder communication, consultancy, and technical leadership skills • Previous technical leadership of a Sitecore-to-Contentful migration is desirable • Experience with Next.js, Sitecore JSS, and composable architecture is desirable • Experience using AI to accelerate complex migrations, legacy application modernisation, or engineering workflows is desirable • Experience with multilingual, multisite, or enterprise content platforms is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Private health insurance • Education program with training and certification • Wellbeing program • Free coffee, drinks, and snacks at work • Company dinners • Ski trips, carting, laser-tag, wine tasting, picnics, cooking classes, and other company events • Competitive salary • 24 days of vacation • Annual company events with the whole team • Challenging projects • Honest, open feedback culture • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process

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