Liferay/eCommerce Technical Lead

The Opportunity

BARBRI is looking for a Liferay eCommerce Architect to serve as the technical lead for our eCommerce technology stack. You’ll own the architectural roadmap and implementation for our Liferay DXP Commerce experience—modernizing a legacy implementation, reducing tech debt, and unlocking faster, safer delivery. This role blends deep Liferay/DXP expertise with pragmatic leadership: you’ll guide engineering, shape platform strategy, and partner closely with Product, Security, and external vendors.

What You’ll Do

• Own the eCommerce Architecture. Lead end-to-end architecture for Liferay DXP + Commerce (catalog, pricing, promotions, checkout, order orchestration, content, personalization, search). Define target/reference architectures, guardrails, and patterns for scale, resilience, and cost.

• Modernize the experience. Evolve us toward modular, maintainable solutions by leveraging leading-edge Liferay platform features such as client extensions.

• Tame tech debt. Establish a prioritized remediation plan, accelerate defect burn‑down, and improve stability/performance through code standards, platform upgrades, caching, and observability.

• Lead delivery. Provide technical leadership to a cross functional squad (backend, frontend, QA, DevOps). Unblock teams, conduct design reviews, and make crisp tradeoffs between speed, quality, and risk.

• Platform stewardship. Define and enforce API contracts, versioning, extension points, and integration patterns across payments, tax, identity/SSO, marketing tools, and analytics.

• Data & search. Ensure high quality product/catalog data flows, metadata strategy, and search/merchandising that supports discovery, conversion, and SEO.

• Performance & reliability. Set SLOs, implement RUM/APM, capacity planning, synthetic tests, and chaos friendly patterns (bulkheads, timeouts, retries, idempotency).

• Security & compliance. Partner with security secrets, PCI-relevant flows, PII, and secure coding; drive threat modeling and regular pentest remediation.

• Vendor & partner leadership. Set technical direction for services partners, review SOWs, and hold vendors to measurable engineering outcomes.

• Delivery excellence. Raise the bar on SDLC: branching, CI/CD, trunk‑based practices, test automation, quality gates, and progressive delivery (feature flags).

• Road mapping & stakeholder comms. Translate business goals into a sequenced platform roadmap. Communicate status and risks clearly to executives and cross-functional leaders.

• Provide guidance.Work with end-users in the business to drive adoption of best practices in content creation, delivery, and design.

What You’ll Bring

• Depth in Liferay. 7+ years implementing Liferay DXP (Portal/Content/Commerce), including extensions, OSGi modules, upgrade paths, and the headless toolset; experience with Liferay Commerce capabilities in production.

• Modern front‑end integration. Strong experience with React and DXP client‑extension/remote‑app patterns; comfort designing for decoupled or progressively decoupled architectures.

• eCommerce domain expertise. Practical understanding of catalog models, entitlement/pricing, promotions, checkout/payment/tax, order management, B2B/B2C flows, and multi‑site/multi‑catalog scenarios.

• Integration architecture. Proven patterns for integrating DXP with CRM, payments, tax, search, marketing, and analytics—plus eventing, queuing, and data contracts.

• SDLC leadership. Track record improving delivery speed and quality through architecture runway, quality gates, and CI/CD; comfortable mentoring engineers and guiding code quality.

• Reliability mindset. Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, caching/CDN, and production observability (APM, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).

• Security & privacy. Familiar with secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, and compliance considerations across commerce flows.

• Communication & influence. Executive-friendly communication; ability to align stakeholders, guide partners, and make decisions with incomplete information.

Nice to Have

• Liferay upgrade/migration leadership (e.g., 7.x to latest, Commerce adoption).

• Search/merchandising experience (e.g., Elastic or headless search adapters).

• Azure experience (Azure DevOps, pipelines, artifacts).

• Experience leading distributed vendor teams and formal partner evaluations.

• Experience with Salesforce B2B Commerce is strongly preferred, particularly in environments where Liferay and Salesforce interact for product data, commerce, or customer workflows.

How You’ll Lead (First 30/60/90 Days)

• 30 Days: Baseline the current state (architecture, code, pipelines, incident history, SLIs/SLOs). Publish an Architecture Findings & Risks memo with prioritized quick wins.

• 60 Days: Land first modernization increments and a Tech Debt Remediation Plan aligned to business milestones.

• 90 Days: Socialize the Target State Architecture and a sequenced 12‑month roadmap (platform upgrades, reliability, and feature enablement). Demonstrate measurable improvements in stability and delivery lead time.

Thrive Beyond the Basics: Our Perks Package

We believe your dedication deserves more than just a paycheck. That's why we offer a comprehensive perks package designed to support your well-being and fuel your passions. Here's a taste of what awaits you:

• Competitive Benefits: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans to keep you and your loved ones covered. Plus, a healthy contribution to your 401(k) retirement savings.

• Work-Life Harmony: We prioritize a healthy balance. Enjoy generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, volunteer and other "personal" days, to recharge and explore your interests.

• Wellness Programs: Stay healthy and happy with an on-site fitness facility in our HQ, discounts on gym memberships, and wellness initiatives to support your physical and mental well-being.

• Continuous Learning Opportunities: As an education company, we believe in the power of learning. Access our extensive library of educational resources, courses, and workshops to enhance your skills and knowledge in both professional and personal development areas.

• Flexible Work Arrangements: We understand the importance of work-life balance. Enjoy flexible work hours and remote work options, allowing you to manage your schedule and responsibilities effectively.

• Opportunities for Growth and Advancement: We're committed to helping you reach your full potential. Benefit from opportunities for career growth and advancement through mentorship programs, volunteer opportunities, performance evaluations, and ongoing feedback/coaching sessions.

• Employee Assistance Program: Life can be unpredictable, and we're here to support you through challenging times. Access our employee assistance program for confidential counseling, legal assistance, and other support services.

• And More!

At Barbri, we believe that investing in our employees leads to mutual success. Join us and be part of a passionate team dedicated to transforming education through innovative technology.

Barbri is an equal opportunity employer workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Join us in our mission to empower individuals through education and technology. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply and help us build an inclusive workforce.