Tech Lead Manager, Merchant Shopping, AI/ML Insights and Growth
Mountain View, CA, USA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in backend software development and system architecture; 2 years directly managing software engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a team building and scaling merchant pricing insights and decision-simulation systems, including integrations with Google Ads and merchant channels.
What you'll do
- Architect and optimize high-performance, low-latency distributed in-memory pipelines.
- Lead pricing, conversion-value, and profit modeling and expand systems for counterfactual business simulations.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead the project roadmap and cross-functional work from early stage to scale.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in backend software development and system architecture.
- 2 years of direct software-engineering team management, including performance evaluations, career growth, and project delivery.
- Experience coding in C++ and Java and building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale machine-learning models or high-throughput production data pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience in Ads Bidding or Ads Quality architectures.
- Experience with simulation engines, pricing elasticity models, causal inference, or counterfactual decision-support systems.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary
Tools
C++, Java, SQL, Shopify Admin APIs
AI focus
Leads pricing elasticity, conversion-value, and profit models, as well as machine-learning inference and counterfactual business simulations.
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