Shopify Plus Technical Lead

Job Title: Shopify Plus Technical Lead
Work Location: NYC,NY(must be local to attend meetings as needed)
Long Term Contract

Job Description :

This role to is have a Shopify Engineer work on a POC for the client around integrating a Shopify checkout into their Next.JS architecture.
Top 3 Skills Required:

• Shopify plus or enterprise technical leadership
• Hydrogen architecture experience
• Work with Checkout kit (preferred not required).

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical delivery of headless Shopify Plus commerce solutions, from discovery and architecture through implementation and launch.
• Partner with Solution Strategists, Product, UX, and Delivery teams to define headless commerce architectures, integration approaches, and technical tradeoffs.
• Design and implement custom storefronts using Shopify Hydrogen (Remix), React, and TypeScript, following modern frontend and composable commerce best practices.
• Own and evolve GraphQL-based integrations leveraging Shopify Storefront and Admin APIs to support scalable, high-performance commerce experiences.
• Provide technical leadership during requirements gathering, translating business needs into maintainable, extensible technical designs.
• Produce and review high-level technical architecture and design documentation for headless storefronts, APIs, and integrations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiarity with composable commerce patterns and MACH principles.
• Comfortable evaluating and adopting emerging web and commerce technologies.
• Strong collaboration skills working with product, UX, and solution architecture teams.

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 architectures 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 architectures.

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