Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Team Ownership

- Act as the technical leader for the engineering team.

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Serve as the first technical escalation point for developers.

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Provide technical direction, mentoring and guidance to developers.

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Review technical approaches and implementation plans.

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Make day-to-day technical decisions without unnecessary escalation to the CTO.

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Establish engineering standards, coding practices and development processes.

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Conduct or oversee code reviews and architectural reviews.

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Identify technical debt and establish practical remediation plans.

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Build the team's ability to solve complex technical problems independently.

2. Solution & Application Architecture

- Own the architecture of complex WordPress and WooCommerce applications.

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Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions.

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Define application components, data flows, APIs, integrations and dependencies.

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Evaluate architectural alternatives and clearly communicate trade-offs.

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Identify scalability, reliability, security and maintainability risks.

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Create and maintain architecture diagrams and technical documentation.

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Ensure new features fit into the overall platform architecture rather than becoming isolated implementations.

3. WordPress & WooCommerce

- Design and oversee complex WooCommerce implementations.

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Guide architecture for custom themes, plugins and WooCommerce extensions.

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Establish appropriate approaches for products, attributes, options, pricing, metadata, cart, checkout and order workflows.

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Review third-party plugins and assess their technical suitability and risks.

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Ensure customizations follow WordPress and WooCommerce best practices.

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Guide the team in maintaining upgradeability and long-term maintainability.

4. ShapeDiver & Product Configuration





- Provide technical ownership for ShapeDiver and other product configurator integrations.

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Design the interaction between the configurator, WooCommerce, ERP/pricing systems and order workflows.

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Guide configuration metadata, product options, add-ons and pricing integration.

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Review communication between the configurator and WooCommerce.

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Identify performance, API, browser and integration constraints.

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Ensure the architecture can scale as products, configurations and storefronts increase.

5. Enterprise Integrations

- Architect integrations between WooCommerce and external systems including:

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ERP

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Pricing and inventory systems

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Payment gateways

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CRM systems

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Shipping providers

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Third-party SaaS platforms

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REST APIs

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Product configurators

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Define API contracts, authentication, data mapping, error handling, retries, logging and synchronization strategies.

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Identify integration failure scenarios and appropriate recovery mechanisms.

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Ensure integrations are reliable, observable and maintainable.

6. Technical Planning, Estimation & Delivery

- Work with the BA Lead to understand requirements and identify technical implications.

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Convert functional requirements into technical implementation plans.

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Break large requirements into technical components and development tasks.

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Provide technical estimates and identify dependencies.

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Identify technical risks and blockers before they affect project delivery.

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Work closely with the PM on technical sequencing, dependencies and delivery planning.

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Provide technical status and risk information to the PM.

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Ensure developers have sufficient technical clarity before implementation begins.

7. Performance & Scalability

- Diagnose application, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, caching and infrastructure performance issues.

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Optimize database queries and data access patterns.

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Establish appropriate caching and object-caching strategies.

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Review application architecture for scalability.

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Investigate production performance problems and conduct root-cause analysis.

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Define and monitor meaningful technical performance metrics.

8. Infrastructure, DevOps & Reliability

- Work with infrastructure/hosting teams on application architecture and deployment requirements.

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Understand Linux, PHP-FPM, web servers, MySQL, Redis/object caching, CDN and monitoring.

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Guide development, QA, staging and production workplace strategy.

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Establish appropriate Git, branching, CI/CD, deployment and rollback practices.

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Participate in production incident investigation and resolution.

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Improve application reliability, observability and recoverability.

9. Security

- Establish secure development and architecture practices.

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Review authentication, authorization, API security, data protection and input validation.

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Identify application and infrastructure security risks.

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Guide remediation of vulnerabilities.

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Participate in security and architecture reviews.

10. Collaboration with BA, QA & PM

With BA

- Review requirements for technical feasibility.

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Identify missing technical details and edge cases.

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Provide technical alternatives and constraints.

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Help establish technically meaningful acceptance criteria.

With QA

- Identify high-risk areas requiring additional testing.

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Ensure architecture and implementation are testable.

Requirements

📌 Senior Solutions Architect / Technical Lead (India)
🏢 Tara Blooms
📍 India