[Remote] Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Body Art Alliance is consolidating its storefronts onto a shared Shopify platform and bringing platform ownership in-house. The Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect will architect the platform, lead migrations and development partners, write production code, and own releases, integrations, and platform health while building the engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and roadmap. One base theme and back end, with brands expressed through presets, settings and metafields rather than forked code, and international handled through Shopify Markets
• Lead the migrations. Start with our UK/EU business moving from Magento to Shopify, then consolidate the remaining storefronts onto the same base. Plan, sequence and report on the program
• Manage development partners. Scope, estimate, review and accept agency work against written statements of work, track spend, and bring capability in-house over time
• Integrations and data. Own the Shopify side of our NetSuite, Snowflake and GA4 connections so orders, inventory, pricing, customers and reporting stay clean
• Releases and platform health. Repository, environments, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring and peak-season change freezes. Keep site speed, uptime, app count and platform spend moving the right way
• Build the team. Hire a small engineering team and an AI-assisted workflow (Claude Code or similar) for specs, code, tests and first-pass review, with engineers owning every release decision

Skills

• Shopify B2B, Markets, checkout extensibility and Shopify Functions
• UK/EU ecommerce: VAT, localization and translation
• Multi-brand, wholesale or PE-backed company experience
• Headless or Hydrogen experience, with judgment on when not to use it
• 8+ years in ecommerce engineering, including 5+ years on Shopify Plus serving multiple brands or stores from shared code
• Led a platform migration end to end
• Built or owned an ERP integration
• Led engineers and managed agencies or contractors to scope and budget
• Writes production code today and uses AI coding tools daily
• Ideally Magento to Shopify (data, redirects, SEO, cutover)
• Ideally NetSuite

Benefits

• Fully remote

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