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· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.

· 8+ years professional software engineering; 2+ years as a technical lead (or equivalent) of engineers delivering production commerce or similarly complex systems.

· 7+ years expertise in HCL Commerce and/or IBM WebSphere Commerce (WCS) 8.x — store customization, business logic, tools, catalog/order/user flows, and back-end integration. v8 experience is the hiring bar; later Commerce versions are a plus, not a substitute.

· 7+ years Java development and OOD skills on large IT systems (J2EE on WebSphere Application Server strongly preferred).

· 4+ years Spring / Spring MVC; hands-on Spring Boot (REST APIs, service integration) required — not “Spring on a résumé only.”

· 5+ years web services (REST and SOAP).

· 5+ years source control (Git required; SVN/CVS acceptable as prior experience).

· 3+ years JavaScript, HTML, CSS; Next.js and React production experience required. TypeScript preferred.

· Experience leading in Agile using Atlassian tools (Jira, Bitbucket/Git, Confluence) — story quality, reviews, and delivery, not only personal tickets.

· Strong communication skills; proven ability to lead a mixed FTE/contractor team.

Preferred

· B2B commerce, punchout, and/or mobile commerce.

· Headless / composable commerce (API-first storefront consuming Commerce or BFF/microservices). MuleSoft or similar iPaaS.

· Additional JS frameworks (Angular, Vue) as secondary experience.

· Search (Solr), cache (Redis or similar), CMS-driven storefront (Optimizely or equivalent).

· Experience working Preview vs Runtime Commerce stacks without treating them as the same environment.

· Prior dual-run or phased storefront migration.