Headless Shopify Architect: React/Hydrogen Tech Lead

Sapient Corporation; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive workplace

Learning and growth opportunities

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Shopify Plus Tech Lead/Manager to drive headless commerce for client projects. You will interface with internal teams and clients, provide technical solutions, and support client development teams while spending significant time coding and reviewing code.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, architecture leadership, and collaboration with product and solution architecture teams across the business. Some travel to client offices is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in modern ecommerce or digital product development.
• Prior experience migrating legacy or monolithic commerce platforms to headless Shopify.
• Experience with Remix, Next.js, or other modern React frameworks.
• Comfortable evaluating and adopting emerging web and commerce technologies.
• Strong collaboration with product, UX, and solution architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Shopify Plus solutions using headless architecture.
• Deep expertise with Shopify Hydrogen (Remix-based) and custom headless storefront implementations.
• Designing and consuming GraphQL-first data models and workflows.
• Hands-on work with coding and code reviews, ~70% time.

Skills

Shopify Plus

Headless architecture

Hydrogen

React (TS)

Next.js

GraphQL API

Node.js

GraphQL

Shopify GraphQL API

REST / webhooks

Tools

Node.js

GraphQL

Shopify GraphQL API

REST / webhooks

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Shopify Plus Tech Lead/Manager to drive headless commerce for client projects. You will interface with internal teams and clients, provide technical solutions, and support client development teams while spending significant time coding and reviewing code.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, architecture leadership, and collaboration with product and solution architecture teams across the business. Some travel to client offices is expected.