Hands-On Shopify Platform Lead

Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Incentive Plan

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Recognition and Rewards

Job summary

Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC seeks a senior software engineering leader to own and evolve the Shopify-centric production portal. You will drive end-to-end architecture across storefronts and backend services, ensuring uptime, performance, and secure payments.

You will lead hiring, set coding standards, and guide an on-site team to deliver durable, scalable solutions for Crane's e-commerce ecosystem, aligning with customer roadmap needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or preferred in CS or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of leadership experience as a manager or tech lead.
• Hands-on experience building and operating a production Shopify storefront.

Responsibilities

• Own the production portal end to end: uptime, performance, checkout reliability, and defects affecting orders/conversion.
• Lead incident response and durable fixes.
• Design architecture connecting Shopify with Crane's systems: orders, inventory, shipments, and tracking data flows.
• Build and customize Shopify storefronts and apps using Liquid, theme architecture, and Shopify APIs.
• Implement and maintain payment processing and PCI compliance.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, and performance conversations; scale the team as needed.
• Set engineering standards for testing, security, observability, and change management.
• Use analytics to identify conversion/usability issues and prioritize fixes.
• Run agile cadence: planning, standups, retrospectives, release planning.
• Document design and deployment procedures; ensure portal independence from individuals.
• Participate in on-call rotation and extended coverage during peak periods.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Proactivity

Collaboration

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

2+ years leading engineers as a manager or technical lead

Hands-on Shopify storefront experience

Tools

Shopify

Liquid

GraphQL

REST API

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kafka

SQS

Azure Service Bus

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Redux

Grafana

Incident.io

Job description

Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC seeks a senior software engineering leader to own and evolve the Shopify-centric production portal. You will drive end-to-end architecture across storefronts and backend services, ensuring uptime, performance, and secure payments.

You will lead hiring, set coding standards, and guide an on-site team to deliver durable, scalable solutions for Crane's e-commerce ecosystem, aligning with customer roadmap needs.