Senior Full-Stack Engineer – Headless Commerce

Plaud; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Unlimited PTO

401(k) plan with company matching

Top-tier healthcare benefits

Generous new parent leave policy

State-of-the-art office equipment

Job summary

Plaud is searching for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to oversee its transition to a headless commerce stack and enhance its e-commerce platform. In this critical role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality architecture and seamless migration phases.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with React-based stacks, headless commerce on Shopify, and strong Ruby skills. Join Plaud and contribute to the future of AI-driven productivity tools in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack web engineering experience.
• Production experience with headless commerce.
• Strong Ruby skills for backend tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design the architecture for Hydrogen + Shopify Storefront API.
• Own migration phases for e-commerce platform.
• Drive technical decisions and lead cross-functional teams.

Skills

React-based stacks (Next.js, Remix, or Hydrogen)

Headless commerce on Shopify Storefront API

Ruby (Rails or scripting)

HTML Canvas / WebGL

Core Web Vitals optimization

Edge runtime (Cloudflare Workers/Pages or AWS Lambda@Edge)

Technical leadership of at least 2 engineers

Job description

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, Linkedin, and YouTube.

Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to lead the technical execution of Plaud's transition from Shopify Liquid to a headless commerce stack. This is the foundational engineering role for Plaud's e-commerce platform for the future. You will treat the website as a long-lived product platform — not a one-shot rebuild.

What you will do

1. Architecture & Code Quality
   • Design and lead the Hydrogen + Shopify Storefront API + Contentful architecture
   • Set patterns for multi-locale routing (plaud.ai/[lang-country]), data fetching, caching, edge runtime
   • Define and enforce performance budgets (LCP < 2.0s, INP < 200ms, CLS < 0.1)
   • Lead CI/CD, preview deploys, observability, and code review standards
2. Migration Execution
   • Own phase-by-phase migration: non-commerce pages → PDP → Collection → Checkout → Multi-region
   • Drive technical decisions on App migrations (Klaviyo SDK, Refersion/Impact, Yotpo, Algolia)
   • Ensure 95%+ Ads pixel parity in dual-tracking phase
   • Coordinate redirect mapping and SEO-safe URL migration
3. Cross-Functional Leadership
   • Partner with Marketing (Performance + Lifecycle), SEO, Finance, Logistics, and Partnership teams
   • Translate business requirements into engineering work; defend engineering bandwidth from scope creep
   • Own the technical narrative for cross-functional decision gates (M0–M11)
4. Team Leadership
   • Recruit and mentor 2 junior engineers; embed AI-augmented development (Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot) as default
   • Establish and enforce quality bars (testing, A11y, performance)
   • Drive engineering culture: ownership, ship velocity, blameless postmortems

Skills, qualifications and experience we look for

• 5+ years full-stack web engineering with React-based stacks (Next.js, Remix, or Hydrogen)
• Production experience with headless commerce on Shopify Storefront API (or comparable: Commercetools, BigCommerce, Saleor)
• Strong Ruby (Rails or scripting) — comfortable with Shopify backend tooling and Shopify Functions
• HTML Canvas / WebGL or graphics-heavy frontend experience
• Proven track record on Core Web Vitals optimization at production scale
• Hands-on with at least one edge runtime: Cloudflare Workers/Pages, Shopify Oxygen, Vercel Edge, or AWS Lambda@Edge
• Has owned a Liquid → Headless or comparable major frontend migration end-to-end
• Demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal) of ≥2 engineers

Preffered Qualifications

• TypeScript fluency at scale
• Tailwind CSS in a design-system context
• Experience with Algolia, Searchspring, or Coveo
• Integration experience with Klaviyo, Refersion / Impact.com, Avalara / Shopify Tax
• Direct-to-consumer brand or premium SaaS background
• Multi-locale / multi-currency rollout experience

What we offer

• Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive Compensation: $150K-$260K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
• New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
• Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
• Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
• Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks. Commuter Benefits. Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.