Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect

BODY ART ALLIANCE•Hanover, MD

21d•$140,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

Body Art Alliance (BAA) supplies tattoo, piercing and permanent makeup products through brands including Killer Ink, Painful Pleasures, Ultimate Tattoo Supply, FK Irons, Perma Blend, World Famous Ink, NeoMetal and Anatometal. Its commerce channels include Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts, a Magento storefront for international business, and B2B portals. BAA is consolidating its storefronts onto one shared Shopify platform and bringing platform ownership in-house. The Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect will architect the shared platform, lead migrations with an agency partner, and own the platform's code, releases and costs. This is a player-coach role: the position writes production code while leading engineers and development partners. The role will establish a shared base theme and back end, use Shopify Markets for international commerce, manage integrations and platform health, and build a small engineering team and AI-assisted development workflow.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in ecommerce engineering.
At least 5 years working on Shopify Plus serving multiple brands or stores from shared code.
Experience leading a platform migration end to end; Magento-to-Shopify migration experience is preferred, including data, redirects, SEO and cutover.
Experience building or owning an ERP integration; NetSuite experience is preferred.
Experience leading engineers and managing agencies or contractors to scope and budget.
Currently writes production code and uses AI coding tools daily.
Ability to travel about 10–15%, mostly to the UK/EU.

Nice To Haves

Shopify B2B, Shopify Markets, checkout extensibility and Shopify Functions experience.
UK/EU ecommerce experience involving VAT, localization and translation.
Experience with multi-brand, wholesale or private-equity-backed companies.
Headless or Hydrogen experience, with sound judgment about when not to use it.
Magento-to-Shopify migration experience.
NetSuite ERP integration experience.

Responsibilities

Design the architecture and roadmap for one shared Shopify base theme and back end, expressing brand differences through presets, settings and metafields rather than separate code forks.
Use Shopify Markets to support international storefronts.
Lead migrations, beginning with the UK/EU business moving from Magento to Shopify, followed by consolidation of the remaining storefronts.
Plan, sequence and report on the migration program.
Manage development partners by scoping, estimating, reviewing and accepting work against written statements of work, tracking spend, and bringing capabilities in-house over time.
Own the Shopify side of NetSuite, Snowflake and GA4 integrations so orders, inventory, pricing, customer data and reporting remain clean.
Own the repository, environments, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring and peak-season change freezes.
Improve site speed, uptime, app count and platform spend.
Hire a small engineering team and establish an AI-assisted workflow for specifications, code, tests and first-pass review, with engineers retaining ownership of release decisions.
Write production code and lead engineers and partners building the platform.