About this role
iQansoft is looking for a Staff Lead Automotive E-commerce Platform Engineer to take ownership of the architecture, development, and evolution of a large-scale, multi-site automotive e-commerce platform. The platform supports 2.5+ million products across five live websites , requiring high reliability and accuracy across product data, vehicle fitment, supplier feeds, pricing, inventory, search, SEO, assets, checkout, and order management. This is a hands-on technical leadership role . The successful candidate will contribute directly to production code, architecture, data pipelines, search infrastructure, and platform modernization while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product, SEO, merchandising, and business stakeholders. The role requires strong experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, search technologies, data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and high-traffic e-commerce systems , along with the ability to lead technical decisions and deliver solutions in a complex environment. Architect, develop, and operate five high-traffic e-commerce websites using TypeScript and Next.js . Design and optimize SSR, caching, routing, revalidation, canonicalization, redirects, sitemaps, and structured data for large-scale SEO. Design and improve supplier data ingestion through FTP/SFTP, APIs, batch feeds, and near-real-time integrations . Build reliable data pipelines with validation, idempotency, lineage, replay, reconciliation, and rollback capabilities . Model and normalize ACES/PIES, vehicle fitment, year-make-model data, brands, part numbers, attributes, pricing, inventory, images, and supersessions . Design and maintain PostgreSQL data models and search indexing using Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and/or Algolia . Improve search relevance, faceting, synonyms, vehicle filtering, index freshness, and zero-downtime reindexing. Integrate automotive data APIs and supplier systems with appropriate rate limiting, retries, pagination, schema versioning, and contract testing . Own technical aspects of checkout, payments, orders, pricing, and inventory systems , ensuring reliability, security, and auditability. Develop and maintain Sanity CMS schemas and publishing workflows , while keeping editorial and transactional data properly separated. Establish and improve automated testing, CI/CD, observability, SLOs, incident response, and production support practices . Lead architecture reviews and technical decisions while documenting trade-offs and technical direction. Mentor engineers, improve coding standards, manage technical debt, and contribute to hiring and team development. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.