Camping World
Camping World
Camping World is an automotive, hospitality, and travel company focused on recreational vehicles, camping gear, and outdoor equipment. Its business spans RV sales and rentals, maintenance and repair services, camping supplies, outdoor furnishings, appliances, safety products, and activity gear. With more than 185 locations, the company supports customers throughout the RV ownership and outdoor recreation journey, alongside membership services designed to extend its customer offering.

Senior Engineering Manager, eCommerce — Remote Illinois

Lead Camping World’s distributed engineering team through a three-brand Salesforce Commerce Cloud migration to Next.js and Vercel. Stay hands-on in delivery while expanding responsible AI use across the software lifecycle.

Description

  • Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 10 engineers across the US, Mexico, and India
  • Unify employees and contractors around shared engineering standards and quality expectations
  • Coordinate timezone overlap, handoffs, and asynchronous documentation
  • Hire, onboard, and develop engineers while working with HR and vendors on staffing
  • Contribute production code and take on sprint work with the team
  • Pair with engineers, review pull requests, and guide technical design within the codebase
  • Prototype challenging elements of the headless commerce migration
  • Move three Salesforce Commerce Cloud storefronts to a headless Next.js frontend hosted on Vercel
  • Plan migration stages while preserving ongoing business operations
  • Safeguard SEO, URL structures, performance, Core Web Vitals, analytics accuracy, and checkout reliability
  • Define integration approaches across Next.js, SFCC APIs, and external services
  • Drive AI adoption across requirements, design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and release
  • Set standards and safeguards for AI coding assistants and agents
  • Work with QA on AI-supported test creation, regression coverage, and quality automation
  • Track AI’s effect on cycle time, quality, and engineering throughput
  • Own engineering delivery for three brand storefronts
  • Maintain availability, performance, and incident response readiness, particularly ahead of peak seasons
  • Implement observability, alerting, and on-call operating practices
  • Maintain quality through automated testing, CI/CD, code review, and release processes
  • Prioritize technical debt and explain its business impact
  • Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, merchandising, marketing, and brand leadership
  • Convert business priorities into an engineering roadmap tied to measurable outcomes
  • Oversee vendor and contractor relationships and ensure effective knowledge transfer

Requirements

  • Bring 7 or more years of software engineering experience
  • Have at least 3 years in a hands-on engineering management or player-coach role
  • Remain actively hands-on, including writing production code and demonstrating technical ability in an interview
  • Have hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C Commerce experience covering storefronts, cartridges, and platform APIs
  • Demonstrate strong JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and server-rendered web application skills
  • Show experience applying AI tools and agents throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Connect engineering initiatives to business value and communicate that value clearly
  • Have led distributed teams across countries and timezones
  • Have managed blended employee and contractor teams and held vendors accountable
  • Have operated production eCommerce platforms at scale, including peak-season preparation and incident management
  • Hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent level of professional experience
  • Headless or composable commerce production experience is highly preferred
  • Hands-on Next.js and Vercel experience, including SSR, ISR, edge rendering, and caching, is highly preferred
  • Experience leading a storefront replatforming or headless migration is highly preferred
  • Familiarity with SCAPI, OCAPI, SLAS, SFCC Business Manager, multi-brand commerce, retail sectors, SEO, WCAG, Core Web Vitals, Vercel, Harness or comparable CI/CD, Dynatrace or comparable observability, Kong or comparable API gateways, Linear, and Confluence is preferred and may support the role’s commerce and platform responsibilities
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience is required
  • At least 7 years of software engineering experience is required
  • At least 3 years in a player-coach or engineering manager role leading engineers directly is required
  • Current hands-on production coding experience, demonstrated during a technical interview, is required

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Good Sam Roadside Assistance
  • Employee discounts
  • Paid parental leave, subject to eligibility
  • Tuition reimbursement, subject to eligibility
  • On-the-job training opportunities
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and other benefits for eligible full-time associates
  • Dental and vision coverage for part-time associates

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