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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

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Heady

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Heady is a digital product consultancy that provides full-service strategy, design, full-stack development, and growth marketing services. The company specializes in creating engaging mobile and web experiences and offers expertise in digital product design, UX/UI design, software engineering, and product management. Heady collaborates with innovative brands to accelerate digital transformation through strategic product roadmapping, user engagement enhancement, and optimizing mobile and web technologies. With services including mobile app development and backend system architecture, Heady helps its clients achieve crucial business goals by managing the entire digital product lifecycle or supporting specific needs.

📋 Description

• Provide end-to-end technical direction for backend services powering a multi-app mobile ecosystem • Collaborate with engineers, Product Managers, clients, and vendors • Guide architectural decisions and ensure the secure, scalable, and maintainable delivery of mobile backend solutions • Define and document backend technical requirements for mobile features • Lead architectural decisions and implementation for Consumer-facing and Store associate-facing apps • Ensure high-quality, performant, and maintainable code through technical oversight and hands-on development • Maintain and evolve technical documentation to reflect current systems and processes • Strategize and address backend security concerns, including real-time mitigation of malicious activity and compliance with data deletion protocols • Serve as a key technical liaison for client and vendor teams • Provide responses to non-emergency technical issues during ET business hours (9am–3pm) • Lead emergency support during designated off-hours (weekday evenings and weekends) • Represent engineering in cross-functional calls • Provide project leadership and operational oversight for backend developers in collaboration with product managers • Set and enforce backend coding standards, review code, and maintain the CI/CD pipeline • Mentor engineers, foster a collaborative culture, and drive continuous improvement across the engineering team • Enforce secure coding and architectural best practices across backend systems • Oversee client-driven data deletion workflows and protect against vulnerabilities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science • Minimum 6 years in backend engineering roles, including 2+ years in technical leadership • Proven experience with mobile backend systems and API development • Deep knowledge of: AWS, Nodejs, Salesforce, OCAPI/API, third-party integrations for mobile CMS-backed content systems • Demonstrated experience with backend deployment processes and CI/CD management • Exceptional ability to analyze and resolve technical issues with scalable solutions • Strong client-facing communication and cross-functional team collaboration skills • Experience working in Agile product teams • Strong business proficiency in English and adept at delivering both confidence and humility in communication • Exposure to high-scale consumer-facing mobile apps • Familiarity with e-commerce security standards and architecture patterns • Availability across US Eastern Time business hours and emergency support windows.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote