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Work with U.S. Startups and C-Suite Execs as an Oceans Head of Technology

About Oceans

Oceans is an outsourcing firm pairing the best talent in Sri Lanka with CEOs, Founders, and Executives in the U.S.

The Role: Head of Technology (Ecom)

Responsibilities

Innovation in eCommerce

• Develop and execute the technical roadmap for our e-commerce platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market trends.
• Design, build, and deploy a robust headless Shopify solution tailored to business goals and customer needs.
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, and reliability through proper architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Lead architectural decisions for the e-commerce ecosystem, including front-end frameworks, backend services, and third-party integrations.
• Drive innovation in building technology advanced digital shopping experiences through emerging technologies and best practice focusing on mobile first experiences – this will include dynamic pricing, pre-order and bundling as well as automation, personalization and video commerce.
• Lead and implement the end-to-end web development, including frontend UI/UX, backend services, and API integrations.
• Liaise with Creative, Brand, Marketing, UX, Product Development, Customer Service, Operations, and third parties to develop new features and functionality on the site.
• Project manage and scope all technical requirements for the website including eCommerce feature requests, bug reporting, updating the CMS.
• Ensure seamless integration with third party applications, tools and new platforms to support marketing, CRM, analytics etc.
• Technology trend monitoring and feedbacking what trailblazer brands are investing in to unlock growth.

Website Maintenance

• Act as the single point of contact for the day-to-day management of the site.
• Oversee the front-end and back-end infrastructure including 3rd party apps, security, speed, shipping, systems and payment gateways.
• Oversee, update and manage all third party data feeds.
• Prioritize workflows based on business needs including themes, discounts, products, analytics, order issues etc.
• Ability to resolve any small coding issues as they arise and responsible for identifying and resolving any web errors and investigating/ troubleshooting.
• Manage relationship with Shopify Plus team including growth, merchant and product support.
• Responsible for all legal aspects of the website including Cookie classification and tracking, T&C's, Privacy Policies etc and all onsite content.
• Responsible for all DNS records ensuring these are managed and updated accordingly.
• Responsible for the overall website conversion rate.
• Responsible for analyzing on site website data to define trends and insights to communicate back to the business to inform future decisions.

• 7+ years in e-commerce technology leadership roles, preferably in high-growth, DTC, or apparel companies.
• Proven experience in building and deploying headless Shopify solutions.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and microservices architecture.
• Track record of successful large-scale e-commerce implementations.
• Experience with headless commerce architectures.
• Strong understanding of e-commerce best practices, SEO, and web performance optimization.
• Familiarity with AI/ ML driven solutions and their applications in e-commerce.
• Certifications in relevant technologies or project management.

Technical Skills

• Ecommerce: Headless Shopify, custom built solutions.
• Frontend: React, Vue.js, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Backend: Node.js, Python, Java, .NET.
• Database: SQL, NoSQL, Redis.
• Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
• E-commerce: Payment gateways, inventory systems, OMS.
• Analytics: Google Analytics, Big Data tools.
• Security:OWASP, PCI DSS.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Oceans Divers (our recruits) are experienced professionals, naturally driven and committed to excellence, who are excited to support a fast-growing startup company. Our ideal candidate has:

• High Motivation: a natural desire to go above and beyond in all things and to succeed no matter what.
• Excellent Time Management Skills: able to triage competing tasks and drive project completion.
• Effective Communication Skills: able to issue timely reminders, follow ups, and alerts to changing priorities.
• A Keen Sense of Urgency: strong awareness of timeliness and ability to meet close deadlines.
• Reliable Autonomy: able to get things done efficiently with limited supervision while working from home.
• Superb Attention to Detail: able to consume and synthesize large amounts of information.
• Genuine Personality: warm, affable, can-do attitude; pleasant to be around but direct when necessary.
• Tech Savviness: able to quickly understand and use new tech platforms and services to get work done.

We are bringing on all the best and brightest in Sri Lanka — let us know if that’s you.

• Unique lucrative opportunity to work with start ups that could 10x your career.
• Global exposure, working with clients from across the globe and from varied industries.
• Fully remote work.
• Competitive pay and always paid in USD.