Engineering Manager, Purchase Experience

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for the front-end experience of our Payments and Checkout verticals. The Purchase Experience squad owns and evolves the UI layers that power our checkout flows, including maintaining the current experiences and evolving the FastCheckout, our latest generation of checkout UI known for its speed, flexibility, and robustness. In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping seamless and high-converting purchase journeys for millions of users.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—product, design, payments, and commerce infrastructure—to define priorities and deliver solutions that push the boundaries of user experience and performance. As a hands-on leader, you will influence the technical roadmap, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers, fostering a team culture rooted in excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

 

ABOUT THE TEAM

You’ll be joining a group of skilled, highly collaborative engineers focused on building and maintaining the front-end experiences that power VTEX’s Checkout and Payments verticals. The team is organized around two key responsibilities: evolving our next-generation checkout UI, FastCheckout, and maintaining the existing purchase interfaces used by millions of shoppers worldwide.

The FastCheckout initiative is centered on delivering a fast, flexible, and robust checkout experience. With deep expertise in performance optimization, accessibility, and component design, the team is pushing the boundaries of what a seamless purchasing journey should look like—both for end-users and for merchants who need powerful customization capabilities.

At the same time, the team ensures the continuity and stability of our current checkout UIs, which are integral to many live storefronts. Their work involves balancing innovation with operational excellence, guaranteeing reliability while paving the way for future-facing solutions.

WHO YOU ARE

• Strong experience leading senior engineering teams;
• Excellent communication skills and ability to align with diverse stakeholders;
• Proven track record in managing complex technical projects;
• Hands-on experience with Next.js, AWS, Grafana, and OpenSearch.

It's nice to have: 

• Experience working with checkout flows (B2B or B2C);
• Strong technical background in frontend engineering. 

ABOUT VTEX

VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability. VTEX is trusted by 2,400 global B2C and B2B customers, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,400 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2024).

Founded in the year 2000, VTEX has a history of being unstoppable. Completely against the odds, VTEX is leading a high-tech industry and positioned above market giants. We are building an extraordinary future with more than 1,300 employees scattered across 25 locations in 16 countries in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.vtex.com.

At VTEX, you will work in a challenge-driven environment and collaborate with amazing peers. If you are powerful individually, join us, and we will be unstoppable together.

Benefits

• Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility;
• Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX;
• Annual budget for professional development in Tech;
• Language development incentive program (English, Spanish, Portuguese);
• Flexible meal allowance;
• Extended parental leaves;
• Child-care assistance;
• Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture;
• Financial assistance to build your work-from-home setup;
• Wellness program;
• Free shipping on 1000+ VTEX stores

 

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