Company overview:
PEP is a dynamic personal care company that proudly houses two innovative brands – mCaffeine & Hyphen. With a passion for creating high-performance, conscious, and consumer-loved products, we are redefining the way personal care is experienced. While mCaffeine is India’s first caffeinated personal care brand, loved for its energizing and playful approach, Hyphen is built on the philosophy of simplifying skincare through science-backed formulations. Together, our brands reflect PEP’s mission to deliver quality, creativity, and care to millions of consumers. We believe in Confidence over all skin & body biases.
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Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Manager – Engineering & Platform to own and evolve the technology function at PEP Brands. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will manage our current Shopify-led stack, drive platform reliability and performance, and simultaneously lay the groundwork for bringing engineering in-house as we scale. Today, ~90% of our tech runs on Shopify and external agencies.
Your mandate is to build the internal capability — technical and human — to own more of that stack directly over time. You bring strong Shopify expertise, solid backend engineering instincts, and enough DevOps and data engineering depth to make sound architectural decisions end-to-end.
Key Responsibilities:
Technology Strategy & Platform Roadmap
Define and execute a technology roadmap aligned with business goals across Pep.
Own the build vs. buy vs. integrate decision framework — with a clear eye on long-term in-house ownership.
Drive the transition from agency-dependent to in-house engineering, in a phased and risk-managed way.
Evaluate and introduce recent tools and frameworks; ensure every technical choice is defensible and reversible.
Shopify & eCommerce Platform
Own end-to-end performance of the Shopify storefront: speed, checkout experience, conversion, and personalisation.
Architect and manage integrations between Sho