EngineeringTeamLead

Engineering Team Lead About Swap Swap is the infrastructure behind modern agentic commerce. The only AI-native platform connecting backend operations with a forward-thinking storefront experience. Built for brands that want to sell anything — anywhere, Swap centralises global operations, powers intelligent workflows, and unlocks margin-protecting decisions with real-time data and capability. Our products span cross-border, tax, returns, demand planning, and our next-generation agentic storefront, giving merchants full transparency and the ability to act with confidence. At Swap, we're building a culture that values clarity, creativity, and shared ownership as we redefine how global commerce works. About the Role We are looking for a Team Lead to found and lead the newly formed Unified Domain Team within our Enablement Group. This is a greenfield, high-leverage role: you will define and drive adoption of Swap's canonical domain entities and API contracts across the entire engineering organisation. This team exists to solve a real and growing problem — every new partner or market integration today requires bespoke, duplicated engineering effort. You will eliminate that tax by establishing shared, stable, and versioned domain structures that product teams can build on with confidence. The ideal candidate is both a technical leader and a systems thinker who thrives in ambiguous, cross-cutting work and knows how to ship pragmatically without sacrificing long-term integrity. This is a hands-on role (~50% coding initially) with people leadership responsibilities. Responsibilities - Lead a small, focused team with the autonomy and clarity to build foundational infrastructure. - Define, publish, and version canonical domain models for Swap's core entities. - Own the delivery of schemas and OpenAPI definitions. - Establish and maintain a lightweight governance pipeline: review process, ownership model, versioning policy, and deprecation strategy. - Translating software requir