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Senior Frontend Engineer, Professional Services (Americas)

Shopify · NAMER · 2 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time

About The Role

Shopify's Professional Services team works directly with brands like Allbirds, Gymshark, and Staples on paid engagements to architect and deliver native Shopify experiences that drive conversion, performance, and developer velocity. Frontend Engineers on this team build for merchants migrating from legacy enterprise platforms to Shopify Plus, as well as those already on Plus needing their storefront rebuilt for greater scale. Engagements range from short technical spikes to six-month builds.

What You Can Expect

  • A genuinely hands-on role — writing code, not just reviewing others'
  • A fast-moving environment where requirements shift and ambiguity is normal
  • Autonomy to solve complex problems creatively, with mentorship and room to grow
  • Direct influence on merchant outcomes and on Shopify's product roadmap

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and ship native Shopify Plus storefronts — leading technical discovery, solution design, and hands-on implementation across themes, checkout, and app/extension surfaces
  • Own migrations for merchants coming from legacy platforms: assess existing architecture, define target state on Plus, and sequence work so nothing breaks in flight
  • Work at Plus scale — expansion stores, multi-market and multi-currency setups, B2B alongside DTC, high-traffic launches, and operational surfaces like Flow, custom apps, and Launchpad
  • Set the performance bar — define frontend standards (Core Web Vitals, rendering strategy, asset discipline) and coach merchant and partner teams to hit them
  • Make hard build calls and explain them — Liquid vs. Hydrogen/Oxygen, native vs. app, Checkout Extensibility patterns, and content modeling with metafields and metaobjects
  • Scale impact beyond engagements by building reusable reference implementations, accelerators, and internal tooling — Theme App Extensions, Checkout UI Extensions, Functions
  • Work across the org with Solution and Enterprise Architects, Merchant Success, Product, and Engineering to unblock complexity, surface risk early, and feed learnings back into the product roadmap
  • Communicate with range — deep technical detail with engineers, clear recommendations and tradeoffs with executive stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Significant hands-on Shopify Plus development experience, shipping production work for high-volume or enterprise merchants
  • Deep expertise in Shopify Themes and Liquid, including Online Store 2.0 architecture, content schemas, and theme settings
  • Strong modern frontend fundamentals: storefront JavaScript, component architecture, advanced CSS, and demonstrable performance optimization work
  • Hands-on experience across Shopify's Plus extensibility surfaces — Checkout UI Extensions, Theme App Extensions, Functions, App Bridge — including migration patterns off legacy Scripts
  • Experience with Plus-specific complexity: expansion stores, Shopify Markets and multi-region setups, B2B, and custom app development
  • Strong GraphQL and REST proficiency across Admin and Storefront APIs, with webhooks and rate-limit-aware patterns
  • Content modeling with metafields and metaobjects
  • Fluency with Shopify CLI, Git-based workflows, and automated checks (Theme Check, ESLint/TypeScript)
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) to ship production code and build internal tooling that speeds up delivery
  • Excellent communication with both engineering and executive audiences, and a track record of turning ambiguous merchant goals into clear builds with measurable outcomes

Nice to Have

  • Hydrogen/Oxygen experience, with a clear point of view on when headless is actually the right call
  • Experience replatforming merchants onto Plus from Magento/Adobe, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, or similar
  • Subscriptions and Bundles implementations on Plus
  • Agency, consultancy, or SI background delivering for enterprise merchants
  • Familiarity with ERP/OMS/PIM integrations via Admin APIs and webhooks
  • Public thought leadership — talks, writing, podcasts

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we've grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. This is life-defining work that directly impacts people's lives as much as it transforms your own.

About You

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, ambiguity, and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. Before you apply, consider if you can:

  • Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
  • Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
  • Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
  • Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
  • Bring critical thought and opinion
  • Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
  • Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
  • Work digital-first for your daily work

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