Founding Head of Engineering — AI-Driven Shopify Platform

AI Fund; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vidibly, building the evidence layer for commerce, seeks an engineering lead to own end-to-end development across a live Shopify integration. You will design, ship, and operate scalable storefront features, driving reliability and performance in a hands-on, small-team environment.

You will harden architecture, ship a reliable storefront app, extend the mobile upload flow with Mux, and convert manual content readiness into automated product workflows that scale for many stores.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership of product from design to deployment.
• Strong fundamentals: performance, reliability, security, and UX judgment.
• AI-native builder using agentic tools; maintain test-driven quality.
• Use AI for speed while maintaining tests, CI, and observability.
• Thrive in ambiguity and a small-team environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the codebase and technical direction: architecture, quality bar, shipping cadence, production reliability
• Own and evolve a live Shopify app and storefront integration, hardening it across OS 2.0 and legacy theme realities with safe rollouts and easy rollback
• Extend the mobile web creator upload flow with Mux: QR → prompt → record/upload → consent → submit
• Turn content readiness from manual workflows into product: review/approve/publish, SKU mapping, internal tooling to automation

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Performance & reliability

Security & UX judgment

AI-native development

Debugging & CI/Observability

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

TypeScript

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex CLI

Job description

Vidibly, building the evidence layer for commerce, seeks an engineering lead to own end-to-end development across a live Shopify integration. You will design, ship, and operate scalable storefront features, driving reliability and performance in a hands-on, small-team environment.

You will harden architecture, ship a reliable storefront app, extend the mobile upload flow with Mux, and convert manual content readiness into automated product workflows that scale for many stores.