Liferay Tech Lead

The role

You will build a B2B eCommerce platform for a pharmaceutical brand and lead a distributed engineering team. This is a coding role where you will write production code, set technical standards, and work to an established architecture.

What you will do

• Write production code for Liferay customisation, backend services and integrations
• Lead a distributed engineering team day to day
• Run code review and set the quality bar in the codebase
• Break the architecture down into buildable work
• Own the build and release pipeline, environments and branching strategy
• Debug and fix problems across Liferay, integrations and infrastructure
• Ensure builds can be run, monitored and supported by a managed service team
• Support technical service transition
• Act as technical escalation for the managed service team
• Own the technical debt backlog

Required qualifications

• Strong hands-on Java engineering
• Proven Liferay DXP development experience including OSGi modules, Service Builder or client extensions, headless and REST APIs, fragments and workflow
• Commerce experience on Liferay Commerce or a comparable platform including catalogues, pricing, channels, carts and order flow
• Solid integration engineering with REST, messaging, enterprise integration patterns and error handling
• Confident with relational databases, query performance and data modelling
• Practical cloud experience and CI/CD pipelines built and maintained by yourself
• Experience leading engineers through code review, pairing and technical direction
• Experience building solutions handed into or run by a managed service or application support team
• Observability, logging, monitoring and alerting treated as part of the build
• Clear written and spoken English
• Technical documentation skills
• Comfortable in a distributed, multi-location team across UK and India

Nice to have

• Liferay certification
• Contribution to the Liferay community
• Experience delivering into validated or regulated environments such as GxP, CSV or data residency
• Event-driven architecture and streaming platforms
• Caching strategies at scale, at Liferay and CDN layer
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch tuning
• Prior experience of a blended change and run model

Benefits

• Career development and skill growth

About the company

VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience. WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates growth systems for competitive businesses.