Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect (Remote)

Job Title: Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect

About the Client: Our client is a leading supplier of tattoo, body piercing, and permanent makeup products, serving professional artists, studios, and consumers across the US, UK, and EU. They manage a portfolio of established brands and operate multiple e-commerce storefronts, including B2B platforms.
Overview: We are looking for a hands-on Shopify Technical Lead to consolidate multiple e-commerce storefronts into one Shopify platform. You will lead the migration with an external agency, write production code, manage engineers, and take ownership of the platform's development, releases, and costs.

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.

Qualifications:

• 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, ideally Magento to Shopify (data, redirects, SEO, cutover)
  Built or owned an ERP integration, ideally NetSuite
  Led engineers and managed agencies or contractors to scope and budget
  Writes production code today and uses AI coding tools daily

Schedule: GY shift / US hours

Setup: Remote / WFH

Why Join STAFFVIRTUAL?

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

  • HMO Day 1 + FREE dependent coverage

  • Allowances

  • Attendance bonus

  • Paid time offs

• Company-provided work setup (laptop, monitor, accessories)

• Training, career growth, and global exposure

• A collaborative and supportive team culture

If you're a motivated, client-focused professional who's ready to grow with a company that values people and performance, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and join our dynamic team at STAFFVIRTUAL!