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Who are we? Apex Wheels creates Real Performance wheels for drivers everywhere. That means designing and manufacturing wheels that don’t just look the part, but truly improve performance in a measurable way. Born on the track and raised in California, Apex was founded in 2007 as a passion project by diehard motorsport enthusiasts and has produced function-first, race-proven wheels ever since. Now boasting a team of 40+ staff members, all Apex products are designed by an in-house team of engineers who are just as passionate about motorsports as you. Objective  Take hands-on technical ownership of our ecommerce platform, working under the guidance of our CIO and with our eCommerce Director. Ecommerce is a critical engine of our growth, and your job is to make the site a modern sales engine rather than an aging machine that struggles to keep up. You will own architectural decisions for the platform end-to-end, from performance and reliability to the speed at which new features reach production. You will take ecommerce plans and make them real, on time, and on budget, because every delayed launch is growth we leave on the table.  Job Summary  You will be taking on a working ecommerce platform that supports real customers and real revenue, with a codebase that reflects years of accumulated work. Some of it is sound. Some of it is not. Your responsibility is to identify the difference through direct, hands-on engagement with the code and to implement the improvements yourself. This is a hands-on senior engineering role. The challenge is to materially improve a system that is already in production, while continuing to deliver new work in parallel. The majority of your time will be spent writing and reviewing code. You will be the engineer who reads the existing implementation closely, refactors what is holding the platform back, and establishes the patterns that subsequent work will follow. When integrations between commerce, ERP, payments, content, and search behave unreliably, you will trace the issue end-to-end and implement the fix. When a deployment fails, you will be in the logs. When performance degrades, you will be the engineer running the profiler and identifying the actual cause. The technical standard of the platform will reflect the standard of the code you ship, because your work will set the precedent for others. You will also review contributions from internal developers and external agencies, but review in this context means substantive engineering review. You will identify defects, missed edge cases, and shortcuts that will create cost later. You will provide specific, actionable feedback. When work requires significant revision, you will say so directly, and in many cases, you will be the one to implement the correction. This job can work remotely from your home. Your core team works a combination of Central European and Pacific hours, so expect to work a schedule that best supports them.  You will work closely with the CIO and the eCommerce Director, contributing to day-to-day execution while helping ensure that technical decisions are sound and aligned with business needs. You will be expected to challenge assumptions, including those of external partners and internal contributors, when they conflict with platform health or critical business outcomes. When it comes to communicating with stakeholders, you should be able to explain your thinking, highlight tradeoffs, be transparent about unknowns, and the impact of your work. Your proactive communication on progress, status, and blockers will help you to gain the trust of our deeply passionate team, enabling you to grow to the next level in this role.  To start, you will be the only dedicated internal engineer on e-commerce, with oversight of external agencies and contractors as the primary form of leverage. We expect that this position will include people-management over time. What will not change is the expectation that you re