Senior Full-Stack Engineer – Headless Commerce

Plaud

Senior Full-Stack Engineer leading Plaud's transition to a headless commerce stack. Collaborating across teams to optimize the e-commerce platform for future growth.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaScriptNext.jsReactRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architecture & Code Quality
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
Migration Execution
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
Cross-Functional Leadership
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)
Team Leadership
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
Minimum of 3x in office per week.
New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks. Commuter Benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-stack web engineeringReactNext.jsRemixHydrogenheadless commerceShopify Storefront APIRubyHTML CanvasWebGL

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcross-functional collaborationmentoringteam leadershipcommunicationdefending engineering bandwidthestablishing quality standardsdriving engineering culture