Senior Shopify Architect
About the role
Must be eligible to work in the U.S without sponsorship. Preference for candidates based in Chicago, NY, Atlanta, Boston, and all East Coast areas. Preference for candidates in the EST and CST hours. The role may require travel to client offices once a quarter. Candidates should have at least 7 years of Shopify experience, strong communication skills, extensive Headless architecture and Hydrogen expertise, and proficiency in React frameworks. The Shopify Plus Tech Lead/Manager is expected to interface with internal teams and clients, provide technical solutions, and support client development teams with less Shopify experience. The role includes both oversight and hands‑on work such as coding and code reviews, with ideally around 70% of time spent coding.
Responsibilities
- Interface with internal teams and clients to provide technical solutions.
- Support client development teams with less Shopify experience.
- Perform oversight and hands‑on work, including coding and code reviews.
- Travel to client offices approximately once per quarter.
Requirements
- Shopify & Headless Architecture
- Strong experience delivering Shopify Plus solutions using headless architecture.
- Deep expertise with Shopify Hydrogen (Remix‑based) and custom headless storefront implementations.
- Advanced understanding of Shopify Storefront GraphQL API and Admin GraphQL API.
- Experience designing and consuming GraphQL‑first data models and workflows.
- Frontend Engineering
- Advanced proficiency in React with TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of modern frontend patterns: server‑side rendering (SSR), streaming, caching, and performance optimization.
- Experience building scalable component systems and frontend architecture for commerce.
- Backend & Integrations
- Proven experience building and integrating custom Shopify apps (Node.js‑based preferred).
- Hands‑on experience integrating Shopify with external systems such as ERP, OMS, WMS, PIM, CMS, and third‑party SaaS platforms.
- Experience with authentication models, webhooks, background jobs, and event‑driven architecture.
- Commerce & Platform Expertise
- Strong understanding of Shopify commerce concepts including products, variants, collections, pricing, discounts, inventory, orders, and fulfillment.
- Experience with Shopify configuration, instance management, and multi‑store or multi‑region setups.
- Familiarity with data migration and synchronization strategies across platforms.
Qualifications
Must Have:
- 5+ years of experience in modern ecommerce or digital product development.
- Prior experience migrating legacy or monolithic commerce platforms to headless Shopify.
- Experience with Remix, Next.js, or other modern React frameworks.
- Comfortable evaluating and adopting emerging web and commerce technologies.
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with composable commerce patterns and MACH principles.
- Strong collaboration skills working with product, UX, and solution architecture teams.
Benefits
- An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
- Access to learning, upskilling and growth opportunities.
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
- Flexible vacation (not limited, allocated, or accrued).
- Unlimited PTO.
- Parental leave and new parent transition program.
- Exciting 401(k) match.
- Generous paid leave and holidays.
- Wellness program and employee assistance.
- Work Your World program.
Pay
Annual Pay Range for New York (Total compensation in USD): $150,000 - $18