Lead Web Engineer - Frontend & DevOps Specialist

Levi Strauss (India) Private Limited; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 4 000 000 - 7 000 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Levi Strauss (India) Private Limited, Bengaluru, is seeking a Lead Web Engineer to provide end-to-end development leadership for Levi's customer-facing e-commerce site. Own the storefront's development, architecture, and integration with headless commerce.

You will drive DevOps practices, code quality, and performance, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver secure, production-ready experiences.

Qualificações

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading the technical direction of a customer-facing web platform.
• Mentor and elevate engineers' technical skills.
• Excellent communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on AI tooling usage to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, data privacy, and secure handling of enterprise information.

Responsabilidades

• Lead technical planning, design decisions, and delivery for the site through release readiness.
• Own full lifecycle DevOps: writing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and on-call duties.
• Define patterns, architecture, and best practices for the web platform.
• Design and maintain high-performance, accessible web experiences.
• Coach and mentor engineers; participate in hiring.
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to align requirements and APIs.
• Drive agile execution with sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Conhecimentos

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Nuxt.js

Vue.js

React

Next.js

Web performance

WCAG

Ferramentas

Docker

New Relic

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

REST/GraphQL

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Lead Web Engineer

Job Location: Bengaluru, India Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger. We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it. Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger. So add your voice. Make an impact. Find your fit — and your future. We are looking for a Lead Web Engineer to provide end-to-end development leadership for Levi's customer-facing e-commerce site. This role owns overall development execution for the storefront solving problems with the right framework, architecture, and tools and partners closely with product, backend/platform engineering, architects, and design in a fast-paced agile environment. The Lead Web Engineer brings a DevOps mindset, owning the write, test, monitor, and maintain lifecycle of what the team builds end-to-end. The Lead Web Engineer guides technical direction, drives code quality, mentors junior and mid-level developers, and ensures secure, performant, production-ready delivery across the site, integrations, testing, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

About the Job

• Lead technical planning, design decisions, and delivery for the site from implementation approach through release readiness.
• Embrace a DevOps mindset - own the full lifecycle of what you build, including writing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining code in production, and fulfilling on-call duties for the site.
• Contribute to the technical vision for Levi's web & app platforms, defining patterns, architecture, and best practices for the team.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, accessible web experiences using Nuxt.js/Vue (or equivalent frameworks like React/Next.js), integrated with headless/composable commerce APIs.
• Own site performance, reliability, and platform health like Core Web Vitals, page load, accessibility (WCAG), SEO, and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Champion telemetry and observability and instrumenting the site with logging, metrics, and tracing to proactively detect issues and uplevel the team's operational maturity.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical standards; own test strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end) as a shared team responsibility to reduce production defects.
• Mentor developers, play an active role in hiring and growing the team, and lead by example on team agreements and best practices.
• Foster an open, collaborative culture with honest communication, peer support, continuous learning and stay connected across the broader platform team via stand-ups, brown bags, and demos.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders like product, design, and backend/platform engineering to align on requirements, API contracts, and integration points.
• Drive agile execution with sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation.

About You

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant depth in frontend/web development.
• Proven experience leading the technical direction of a customer-facing web platform, ideally in e-commerce or another high-traffic transactional environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate the technical skills of other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, including writing effective prompts and critically validating AI-generated output for accuracy, security, and production quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy and safe handling of enterprise information.

Technical Skills

• Frontend: Nuxt.js, Vue, or equivalent modern frameworks (React, Next.js), JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Integration: RESTful/GraphQL APIs, headless/composable commerce platforms
• CI/CD: Git-based workflows, automated pipelines, containerization (Docker)
• Performance & Quality: Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), SEO, automated testing (unit/integration/e2e)
• Observability: Experience implementing telemetry, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to drive proactive monitoring and operational maturity
• Cloud: Any major cloud provider (Azure, GCP, or AWS)

LOCATION Bengaluru, India FULL TIME/PART TIME Full time

Experience Level Senior Level