Forward Deployed Design Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Openkrill is a founder-led, AI-native mobile commerce platform transforming Shopify stores into native mobile apps. You will own customer implementations, ship UI changes, and contribute to scalable patterns for major brands.

The role requires 3–6 years in software engineering with 2+ years shipping React Native in production and strong Shopify experience. Remote role overlaps US business hours and is a full-time position.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years shipping React Native in production.
• 2+ years working deeply inside the Shopify ecosystem, with production experience building metafield- and metaobject-driven UI.
• Hands-on production experience with the Shopify Admin API (GraphQL) and Storefront API.
• Comfortable reading and writing Liquid fluently and modifying/pushing production Online Store 2.0 themes.

Responsibilities

• Scope, build, and ship customer implementation requests end to end, including pricing and modules.
• Turn Shopify data into correct, working app UI quickly and repeatedly.
• Lead new customer launches: audit setup, map data, configure app, ship live launch in 2-3 weeks.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript

Shopify

Customer-facing

Remote collaboration

Tools

GraphQL

Shopify Admin API

Liquid

Job description

THE OPPORTUNITY

This role exists because the company\'s customers are strong-opinionated consumer brands who need a dedicated technical partner turning their Shopify data into a polished, on-brand mobile app fast. In your first 90 days you\'ll take ownership of a set of live customer accounts and start shipping their implementation requests directly. By month 12, you\'ll be the go-to technical partner for a growing roster of brands, with a library of documented patterns behind you. If you get real satisfaction from taking a customer\'s ask in the morning and shipping it by afternoon, this is built for you.

WHAT YOU\'LL OWN

• Scope, build, and ship customer implementation requests end to end, bundle builders with conditional pricing, custom PDP modules, loyalty-gated collections, segmented campaigns, personalized feeds, then move to the next one.


• Turn a customer\'s existing Shopify data (product, variant, and collection metafields, metaobject entries) into correct, working app UI, quickly and repeatedly, this is the daily core of the job.


• Lead new customer launches: audit their Shopify setup, map their custom data to the platform, configure their initial app, and ship a live launch in roughly 2-3 weeks.


• Hold the long-term technical relationship for the accounts you onboard, you\'re the person who knows their store and what they care about.


• Execute cleanly inside each customer\'s existing brand system, their colors, type, spacing, tone, so every build feels native to their brand, not templated.


• Triage a request queue that always outpaces available hours, deciding what ships this week in partnership with the customer and the internal CS team.


• Convert repeat problems into documented internal playbooks, and surface recurring customer asks to leadership as concrete product gaps.

WHAT WE\'RE LOOKING FOR

• 3-6 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years shipping React Native in production, navigation, native modules, performance debugging, iOS/Android platform differences.


• 2+ years working deeply inside the Shopify ecosystem, with production experience building metafield- and metaobject-driven UI (definitions, namespaces, ownership models, storefront access).


• Hands-on production experience with the Shopify Admin API (GraphQL) and Storefront API, including schema traversal, pagination, and throttling.


• Comfortable reading and writing Liquid fluently, and experienced modifying or building production Online Store 2.0 themes (sections, blocks, dynamic sources, app blocks).


• Production experience with TypeScript, React, and Node in customer-facing products.


• Real design judgment: design-literate, comfortable reading Figma files and extracting a brand\'s tokens, able to build cleanly inside an existing visual system rather than inventing a new one.


• Comfortable communicating with customers daily through Slack and our support platform, with regular live calls as needed - scoping on the fly, and writing clearly (Slack updates, Loom walkthroughs, email).

NICE TO HAVE

• Background at a Shopify Partner agency, Shopify implementation shop, or Shopify app company — we\'ve had strong results with people who come from fast-turnaround, client-facing service delivery.


• Familiarity with Shopify Plus tooling, Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Flow, B2B, Markets.


• Working knowledge of common e-commerce ecosystem tools (Klaviyo, Attentive, Recharge, Rebuy, Yotpo, Loop, Gorgias, Okendo or similar) and how they integrate with Shopify.


• Exposure to headless commerce patterns (Hydrogen, Oxygen, or Next.js storefronts).


• Deep Figma fluency, beyond reading and extracting tokens.

TOOLS AND STACK

REACT NATIVE (IOS/ANDROID), TYPESCRIPT, REACT, NODE, SHOPIFY ADMIN & STOREFRONT APIS (GRAPHQL), LIQUID, FIGMA.

HIRING DETAILS

• Location: Remote, Latin America


• Time Zone: US business-hours overlap (Eastern to Pacific all workable)


• Type: Full-time

ABOUT THE COMPANY

A founder-led, AI-native mobile commerce platform that turns Shopify stores into fully native mobile apps. Their product currently powers the apps of 30+ well-known direct-to-consumer brands, with a combined reach of well over 10 million monthly US shoppers.