Tech Lead - Checkouts

About Trafilea

Trafilea is a Consumer Tech Platform for Transformative Brand Growth. We’re building the AI Growth Engine that powers the next generation of consumer brands.

With over $1B+ in cumulative revenue, 12M+ customers, and 500+ talents across 19 countries, we combine technology, growth marketing, and operational excellence to scale purpose-driven, digitally native brands.

We own and operate our own digitally native brands (not an agency), with presence in Walmart, Nordstrom, and Amazon, and a strong global D2C footprint.

Why Trafilea

We’re a tech-led eCommerce group scaling our own globally loved DTC brands, while helping ambitious talent grow just as fast.

🚀 We build and scale our own brands.

🦾 We invest in AI and automation like few others in eCom.

📈 We test fast, grow fast, and help you do the same.

🤝 Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and talented global team.

🌍 100% Remote, USD competitive salary, paid time off, and more.

Job Responsibilities

● Lead the technical evolution of Trafilea’s checkout ecosystem, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.

● Design and deliver new features across frontend, middleware, and core APIs (checkout, upselling, taxes).

● Drive architecture improvements, refactoring initiatives, and technical quality standards.

● Ensure platform performance, uptime, and monitoring (latency, error rates, quality gates).

● Partner with Product and Business teams to translate goals into scalable technical solutions.

● Lead agile delivery and promote engineering best practices within the team.

● Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

● Strong experience leading technical initiatives in software development teams.

● Solid experience designing and evolving distributed systems and APIs.

● Strong background in backend and frontend development for high-traffic platforms.

● Proven experience with SQL schemas, stored procedures, and database design.

● Strong understanding of performance optimization, monitoring, and reliability engineering.

● Strong code quality mindset: testing, code reviews, clean architecture, and maintainability.

● Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

● Passionate mentor with a reputation for raising engineering standards.

● Exceptional communicator—fluent in English, collaborative across disciplines.

● You lead with autonomy, always with big-picture strategic clarity.