Lead Web Engineer

Overview

Lead end-to-end development for Levi's customer-facing e-commerce storefront, owning technical direction, delivery and mentorship of the web engineering team.

What you'll do

• Lead technical planning, design decisions, and delivery for the site from implementation approach through release readiness.
• Own the full lifecycle of what you build, including writing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining code in production, and fulfilling on-call duties for the site.
• Contribute to the technical vision for Levi's web and app platforms, defining patterns, architecture, and best practices for the team.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, accessible web experiences using Nuxt.js/Vue (or equivalent frameworks like React/Next.js), integrated with headless/composable commerce APIs.
• Own site performance, reliability, and platform health, including Core Web Vitals, page load, accessibility (WCAG), SEO, and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Champion telemetry and observability by instrumenting the site with logging, metrics, and tracing to proactively detect issues and uplevel the team's operational maturity.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical standards; own test strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end) as a shared team responsibility to reduce production defects.
• Mentor developers, play an active role in hiring and growing the team, and lead by example on team agreements and best practices.
• Foster an open, collaborative culture with honest communication, peer support, and continuous learning, and stay connected across the broader platform team via stand-ups, brown bags, and demos.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders like product, design, and backend/platform engineering to align on requirements, API contracts, and integration points.
• Drive agile execution with sprint planning, backlog refinement, and estimation.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant depth in frontend/web development.
• Proven experience leading the technical direction of a customer-facing web platform, ideally in e-commerce or another high-traffic transactional environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate the technical skills of other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, including writing effective prompts and critically validating AI-generated output for accuracy, security, and production quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy and safe handling of enterprise information.
• Frontend: Nuxt.js, Vue, or equivalent modern frameworks (React, Next.js), JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Integration: RESTful/GraphQL APIs, headless/composable commerce platforms.
• CI/CD: Git-based workflows, automated pipelines, containerization (Docker).
• Performance and quality: Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), SEO, automated testing (unit/integration/e2e).
• Observability: Experience implementing telemetry, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to drive proactive monitoring and operational maturity.
• Cloud: Any major cloud provider (Azure, GCP, or AWS).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Current LS&Co employees apply via their Workday account.