Tech Lead (Fullstack E-commerce)

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam; office-based with at most one remote day per week on company-managed devices.

Company

hirify.global provides a dedicated engineering team working as an extension of an overseas retail e-commerce client’s technology organization.

What you will do

• Lead architecture and technical decisions for a headless e-commerce website and in-store ordering tool sharing integrations and an AWS environment.
• Run code reviews, define coding standards, and lead version upgrades and technical-debt audits.
• Design and review ERP, payment, search, personalization, email-marketing, and product-feed integrations.
• Apply multi-brand and multi-country business rules and maintain accurate delivery across two-week sprints using Jira and Confluence.
• Diagnose hotfixes, lead production incident recovery, mentor engineers, and participate in candidate selection and testing with the client.
• Enforce client security standards, including named accounts, MFA, least privilege, and no production data copies or credentials in code and chat.

Requirements

• Next.js and React experience for headless front ends, including static-generation caching.
• Magento 2 Open Source with PHP, including APIs, pricing, cart, and order logic.
• Laravel with PHP and experience moving a front end from Blade to Vue.
• AWS architecture experience with ECS, Lambda, serverless direction, and IAM.
• REST API design plus ERP and payment integrations.
• CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes basics, and monitoring experience.
• Professional spoken and written English is required for daily client communication and is tested during the interview.
• At least 8 years of paid production experience, including at least 3 years as a tech lead; training and side projects do not count.
• Applicants with 6–7 years of total experience and at least 2 years leading may be considered only with proof of delivering a production headless Magento 2 or comparable platform and owning AWS architecture.

Nice to have

• Contentful or another headless CMS.
• Magento certification.
• Experience with Australian or other overseas clients.
• Retail and e-commerce domain experience.
• Datadog experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role dedicated 100% to one overseas retail e-commerce client.
• Work with a pod of approximately seven engineers and specialists, including backend, frontend, QC, DevOps, and BA roles.
• Daily collaboration with the client’s project manager and technical stakeholders.
• Office-based Hanoi arrangement with at most one remote day per week on company-managed devices.