About Vistaprint 
We are Vistaprint, a member of the Cimpress family (NASDAQ: CMPR), the world leader for mass-customized marketing products, serving almost 20 million small and medium sized businesses locally in 20+ countries. Working across the globe in a truly international team, we are shaping the digital revolution in printing and mass customization. Over the past 25 years, we grew from startup to $2.75 billion in annual revenue and are confident that we still have a huge, multi-year growth opportunity ahead of us. Our confidence is driven by two primary factors: firstly, ~80% of the market segment for small businesses’ marketing materials is still served through traditional offline channels, often lacking the convenience and cost advantages from greater scale that we can offer our customers. Secondly, there is a significant opportunity to accelerate our activity in adjacent product segments such as packaging, apparel, signage, or corporate line of business accounts. We are a profitable business with an entrepreneurial mindset, and throughout our history we have proven our commitment to investing for long-term horizons. 
 
Since our inception, Vistaprint has sought to disrupt our market and to build a transformational and enduring business. Over the past 20 years, we have reinvented ourselves frequently in service of this mission. Change is in our DNA. 
 
The Opportunity 
 It is an exciting time to join Vistaprint as our founder and CEO, Robert Keane, recently returned to lead Vistaprint as CEO and is building out a new executive team. Together with all employees, we are renewing the company’s focus on delighting customers, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, and accelerating our world-class capabilities. 
 
We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. Vistaprint’s vision of helping small business owners live their dreams is exciting and inspirational. In order to capitalize on our opportunity, we have embarked on a transformational journey to deliver “jaw-dropping customer value”. This will lead us to achieve world-class technology, services, and innovation, while creating an environment where our team members are inspired and enabled to do their best work. 

As a Principal Engineer in the Merchandising Technology team, you will responsible for technology strategy, hands-on solution architecture, team management, and being able to bridge the gap to other technology teams in the Vistaprint Technology organization.  You will be building the user-centric storefront pages that the myriads of Vistaprint customers use every day. Through an agile, customer-focused, experiment-and-learn methodology, the team will target new opportunities to serve small businesses. 
 
Technologies We're Using:

• Javascript (React JS, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js) 

• GatsbyJS or similar static site framework 

• GraphQL 

• AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or similar Cloud infrastructure 

• Contentful or similar headless CMS 

• Continuous integration and deployment with Gitlab, AWS, GKE 

• Microservices and micro-frontend architecture 

• NewRelic, SumoLogic  
   

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and implement a technology roadmap that aligns with the business strategy and delivers both short-term and long-term results 

• Be the technology steward for the merchandising technology domain by developing a sustainable architecture to support business growth 

• Implement security best practices and Vistaprint standards (RFCs) 

• Be responsible for developing the technology strategy and key objectives for the future of Vistaprint’s frontend and  micro-services platform 

• Identify and deliver solutions that push the boundaries of our UI development stack to achieve platform and business goals 

• Actively mentor and coach direct reports 

Candidate Profile 

We are looking for a technology leader who is a self-starter and self-motivated to deliver world-class capabilities for e-commerce, manufacturing, marketing and customer care organizations. Critical analytical thinking, customer focus, and execution are key traits for success. 

Ideal Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive software development experience as a software engineer, architect, and technical leader (e-commerce industry preferred) 

• 2+ years with full-stack software development including newer front-end frameworks

• Experience with Agile development using Scrum or Kanban 

• Experience setting architectural and development standards and best practices for a large software engineering organization 

• Experience leading organizations in the migration from legacy systems to modern highly scalable microservice and micro-front end oriented architectures 

 
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Expert knowledge of design patterns and software engineering principles 
• Collaboration skills to effectively work with business partners, stakeholders and other technologists (locally and remotely) 

• Solution architecture and critical thinking in cross-functional teams 

• Demonstrated ability to make good technology trade-off decisions, i.e. managing technical debt 

• Microservices JSON, javascript, node.js, react, Amazon web services are all important 

What’s In It For You? 

• Being part of a Global team, daily collaboration with peers and stakeholders from Vistaprint locations around the globe (USA, Europe, …) 

• Competitive salary + comprehensive benefits 

• Flexible working hours 

• Continuous development opportunities such as onsite training, meetups, conferences, and online training subscriptions 

• Flexiible work location from our new offices in Boston or headquarters in Waltham