Senior Engineer - Digital Products

Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.  Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:  ·      Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner·       Word is Bond  We do what we say we’ll do ·       Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do·      There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity ·       Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!  We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.   
Your Job:
As the Senior Engineer at Brooks, you are a senior, hands-on contributor alongside the Digital Solutions Architect sharing responsibility for shaping, validating, and implementing solutions that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable. This role combines deep hands-on development with technical leadership, departmental decision influence through implementation expertise, and real-world constraints. You will provide technical leadership for vendor engineering teams, ensuring delivered solutions are well-integrated, meets Brooks’ engineering standards, and supports long-term platform health. This role also contributes technical input during vendor RFP (request for proposal) processes and evaluations of third-party integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Adapt, develop, and deploy solutions across Brooks’ global websites, including but not limited to Salesforce Commerce Cloud–based implementations.
• Perform hands-on development across front-end and back-end technologies, maintaining a strong personal coding presence as a contributor and reviewer.
• Serve as a technical lead for day-to-day development work, guiding implementation decisions, delivering customer-facing web applications, and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Work directly with external vendor and partner engineering teams to deliver features and enhancements, providing technical direction, reviewing implementations, and ensuring work meets Brooks’ quality and engineering standards.
• Lead technical walkthroughs and maintain clear documentation of system design, development workflows, and operational considerations.
• Coordinate with Enterprise IT and integration partners to implement and maintain integrations with systems such as ERP and CRM.
• Participate in structured on-call rotations leading associated troubleshooting of production incidents, including root cause analysis and escalation activities.
• Embrace SME designation for various technical solutions.
• Support the continued maturation of agile development practices and team delivery capabilities.
• Drive AI‑ and innovation‑focused initiatives by evaluating emerging technologies, prototyping new capabilities, and integrating practical AI solutions.
• Assist Digital Operations Team in CI/CD activities developing new automations to improve development lifecycle.
• Ensure development practices align with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements of a global brand (e.g., PCI, GDPR).
• Monitor web performance and ensure solutions meet reliability, accessibility, localization, and internationalization standards and associated SEO and AEO.
• Partner with the Digital Solutions Architect to ensure solutions are implemented while surfacing practical considerations from a development perspective.
• Translate solution architectures and product requirements into detailed technical designs and working software.
• Establish and evolve engineering best practices, development standards, and design patterns.
• Co-develop POC solutions with Architecture team to leverage 3rd party solutions.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence focusing on accountability, continuous development, security, and scalability.
• Document, demo, and present new technical solutions to technical and non-technical resources.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, QA, and Technical Project Managers throughout the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent combination of education and years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s)
• 7+ years of hands-on experience building customer-facing web applications, preferably in eCommerce environments
• Proficiency in at least one major Web Development programming language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java, C#) with working knowledge of others
• Strong experience with modern web development frameworks and tools across front-end and back-end stacks
• Demonstrated experience developing on enterprise eCommerce platforms; Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFRA implementation) experience strongly preferred
• Expert knowledge of website performance optimization and mobile-first development practices
• Demonstrated ability to influence system design and architectural decisions through hands-on development and technical judgment
• Scripting and automation proficiency a plus, specifically GitHub Actions and Bash
• Experience working in or across multiple cross-functional, product led, Agile/Scrum teams
• Comfortable working with APIs, integrations, databases, and cloud-based infrastructure
• Headless Development, Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, CMS, ESP exposure a plus
• Strong documentation, communication, and collaboration skills
• Embraces and lives the Brooks values!