Hands-On Enterprise Architect (Frontend & Checkout)

Shopify; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopify is seeking a Technical Architect to lead architecture and hands-on delivery for Plus and enterprise merchants. You will architect native storefronts, drive technical discovery, and deliver proofs-of-concept across themes, checkout, and extensions.

You’ll own migration paths from legacy platforms, set performance standards, and collaborate closely with Solution Engineering, Customer Success, Engineering, and Product to influence the roadmap.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Shopify Themes and Liquid, including Online Store 2.0 architecture, content schemas, and theme settings
• Strong modern frontend fundamentals: storefront JavaScript, component architecture, advanced CSS, and demonstrable performance optimization work
• Hands-on experience across Shopify's extensibility surfaces - Checkout UI Extensions, Theme App Extensions, Functions, App Bridge - including migration patterns off legacy Scripts
• Strong GraphQL and REST proficiency across the Admin and Storefront APIs, with webhooks and rate-limit-aware patterns
• Content modeling with metafields and metaobjects
• Fluency with Shopify CLI, Git-based workflows, and automated checks (Theme Check, ESLint/TypeScript)
• Demonstrated use of AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) to ship production code and build internal tooling that speeds up delivery
• Excellent communication with both engineering and executive audiences, and a track record of turning ambiguous merchant goals into clear architectures with measurable outcomes
• Nice to have: Hydrogen/Oxygen experience, Plus program depth, agency/consultancy background, ERP/OMS/PIM integrations, public thought leadership

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver Shopify storefronts for Plus and enterprise, leading technical discovery, solution design, and hands-on proof-of-concepts across themes, checkout, and app/extension surfaces
• Own the migration path for merchants coming from legacy platforms: assess existing architecture, define the target state, and sequence the work so nothing breaks in flight
• Set the performance bar. Define frontend standards (Core Web Vitals, rendering strategy, asset discipline) and coach merchant and partner teams to hit them
• Make the hard architecture calls and explain them - Liquid vs. Hydrogen/Oxygen, native vs. app, Checkout Extensibility patterns, content modeling with metafields and metaobjects, and multi-market/multi-region setups via Shopify Markets
• Scale your impact beyond the engagement by building reusable reference implementations, accelerators, and internal tooling - Theme App Extensions, Checkout UI Extensions, Functions - so the next team starts further ahead
• Work across the org with Solution and Enterprise Architects, Merchant Success, Product, and Engineering to unblock complexity, surface risk early, and feed what you learn back into the product roadmap
• Communicate with range - deep technical detail with engineers, clear recommendations and tradeoffs with executive stakeholders

Skills

Shopify Themes

Liquid

Frontend fundamentals

GraphQL

REST APIs

AI tools

Tools

Shopify CLI

Theme Check

Git

Job description

Shopify is seeking a Technical Architect to lead architecture and hands-on delivery for Plus and enterprise merchants. You will architect native storefronts, drive technical discovery, and deliver proofs-of-concept across themes, checkout, and extensions.

You’ll own migration paths from legacy platforms, set performance standards, and collaborate closely with Solution Engineering, Customer Success, Engineering, and Product to influence the roadmap.