Principal Engineer – Search Engine Optimization
Position Summary:
Staples is on an exciting journey to redefine customer experience with the new brand, products, and services to our customers. As part of this journey, the e-commerce team is building a generic platform with the best customer experience from the ground up using modern technologies.
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to partner with both the business and technical teams to innovate and deliver new features and enhancements for the e-commerce platform. This position mainly focuses on building SEO (search engine optimization) solutions to bring organic traffic from search engines like Google and Bing. Software Engineers in e-commerce create and/or modify moderately complex solutions that meet the expectations of stakeholders. They have a thorough knowledge of the entire system and work with product, engineering, QA and other teams in the organization to deliver best e-commerce experience to the customers.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and support various SEO related software components throughout all phases of the software development life cycle.
- Work with engineers and other cross functional teams like Product Management, Project Management, Release Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations teams etc. to develop innovative solutions that meet e-commerce market needs.
- Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes
- Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable and are scalable under sustained load
- Create and maintain application documentation as required
- Mentor and guide junior team members
- Identify project risks and work effectively to mitigate them
- Find and help fix stability/scalability issues in a very time critical environment
- Support site rollouts and be available to resolve site issues
- Develop industry and product technical expertise