Senior Full-Stack Engineer -Headless Commerce
About The Position
Plaud is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to lead the technical execution of their transition from Shopify Liquid to a headless commerce stack. This is a foundational engineering role for Plaud's future e-commerce platform, treating the website as a long-lived product platform. The role involves designing and leading the architecture, setting performance standards, leading CI/CD and code review processes, owning the migration phases, driving technical decisions for app migrations, ensuring pixel parity, coordinating redirects, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The engineer will also be responsible for recruiting and mentoring junior engineers, establishing quality bars, and driving engineering culture.
Requirements
- 5+ years full-stack web engineering with React-based stacks (Next.js, Remix, or Hydrogen)
- Production experience with headless commerce on Shopify Storefront API (or comparable: Commercetools, BigCommerce, Saleor)
- Strong Ruby (Rails or scripting) — comfortable with Shopify backend tooling and Shopify Functions
- HTML Canvas / WebGL or graphics-heavy frontend experience
- Proven track record on Core Web Vitals optimization at production scale
- Hands-on with at least one edge runtime: Cloudflare Workers/Pages, Shopify Oxygen, Vercel Edge, or AWS Lambda@Edge
- Has owned a Liquid → Headless or comparable major frontend migration end-to-end
- Demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal) of ≥2 engineers
Nice To Haves
- TypeScript fluency at scale
- Tailwind CSS in a design-system context
- Experience with Algolia, Searchspring, or Coveo
- Integration experience with Klaviyo, Refersion / Impact.com, Avalara / Shopify Tax
- Direct-to-consumer brand or premium SaaS background
- Multi-locale / multi-currency rollout experience
Responsibilities
- Design and lead the Hydrogen + Shopify Storefront API + Contentful architecture
- Set patterns for multi-locale routing (plaud.ai/[lang-country]), data fetching, caching, edge runtime
- Define and enforce performance budgets (LCP < 2.0s, INP < 200ms, CLS < 0.1)
- Lead CI/CD, preview deploys, observability, and code review standards
- Own phase-by-phase migration: non-commerce pages → PDP → Collection → Checkout → Multi-region
- Drive technical decisions on App migrations (Klaviyo SDK, Refersion/Impact, Yotpo, Algolia)
- Ensure 95%+ Ads pixel parity in dual-tracking phase
- Coordinate redirect mapping and SEO-safe URL migration
- Partner with Marketing (Performance + Lifecycle), SEO, Finance, Logistics, and Partnership teams
- Translate business requirements into engineering work; defend engineering bandwidth from scope creep
- Own the technical narrative for cross-functional decision gates (M0–M11)
- Recruit and mentor 2 junior engineers; embed AI-augmented development (Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot) as default
- Establish and enforce quality bars (testing, A11y, performance)
- Drive engineering culture: ownership, ship velocity, blameless postmortems
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: $150K-$260K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
- Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
- Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
- New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
- Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
- Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
- Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks. Commuter Benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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