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Posted 5 hours agoHead of Engineering
at Ooon
Shanghai, ChinaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Establish China as a center of excellence for retail innovation
- Lead the development of proprietary, self-owned global platforms
- Ensure China-based teams operate as first-class global product teams
- Build an engineering culture rooted in technical excellence, ownership, and global impact Lead with Vision — and with Code
- Lead and scale multiple engineering teams responsible for building globally critical retail and commercial platforms from China.
- Shape the technical direction, platform roadmap, and execution focus in close partnership with Product, Architecture, Security, and Global Tech Leadership.
- Ensure all platforms align with the global architecture north star, long-term platform strategy, and regulatory requirements across regions.
- Act as a visible technical leader who sets the bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and quality. Build Global Platforms with China-First Innovation
- Own the delivery, quality, and technical excellence of globally deployed platforms built and operated from the China Tech Hub.
- Lead the development of self-owned, modular, and scalable architectures that combine:
- Drive predictable execution by breaking down complex initiatives, managing uncertainty, and unblocking teams to deliver consistently at scale.
- Maintain high operational resilience by enforcing SLOs, incident response standards, security practices, and platform reliability expectations.
- Build and nurture a high-performing engineering culture rooted in technical rigor, ownership, openness, and continuous learning.
- Champion global engineering values and principles through visible role modeling and decision-making.
- Coach and mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers, developing strong technical leadership and succession pipelines.
- Own hiring strategy and decisions for the China hub, consistently raising the talent bar in a highly competitive market.
- Establish clear career paths, expectations, and feedback loops that enable engineers to grow and thrive. Collaborate and Communicate with Influence
- Drive alignment across global engineering, product, and business teams, ensuring shared understanding and coordinated execution.
- Build trusted partnerships across regions, functions, and cultures, operating effectively in a highly distributed global environment.
- Represent the China Tech Hub in global engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and cross-functional initiatives. Connect Engineering Work to Business Impact
- A consistent track record of delivering high-impact platforms and products with predictability, quality, and measurable outcomes. •
Requirements
- experience leading multiple engineering teams (ICs and Engineering Managers) within complex, fast-moving, product-driven organizations operating at global scale.
- experience designing and evolving large-scale e-commerce platforms, including customer-facing, transactional, and backend commerce systems. Demonstrated
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and integration patterns, with systems operating across regions and regulatory environments.
Benefits
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, making high-judgment calls, and aligning distributed, cross-regional teams around a shared mission and technical vision.
Additional details
- We are establishing a Global Technology Center in China to serve as a strategic R&D and innovation center for next-generation retail and commercial platforms.
- As Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for building, leading, and scaling this hub, owning the end-to-end engineering strategy, execution, and talent agenda.
- This role combines deep technical leadership, organizational building, and global stakeholder management.
- You will operate at the intersection of China’s highly advanced retail ecosystem and our global technology platform, delivering software products that power markets across the globe.
- You will report into global technology leadership and act as a key member of the Global Engineering Leadership Team.
- Your entrepreneurial and result-driven mindset, combined with strong hands-on technical oversight and execution skills, will make you a key member of the core team on which On’s future is built. Your Mission:
- Your mission is to build a world-class engineering organization in Shanghai, China that delivers globally scalable, locally excellent retail technology platforms. You will:
- Balance China-specific depth with global platform standardization
- Stay deeply hands-on: participate in architectural design, challenge system boundaries, review complex trade-offs, and guide critical technical decisions with clarity and conviction.
- Deep local innovation leveraging China’s advanced retail and technology ecosystem.