[Remote] Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Body Art Alliance is consolidating its storefronts onto a shared Shopify platform and bringing platform ownership in-house. The Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect will architect the platform, lead migrations and development partners, write production code, and own releases, integrations, and platform health while building the engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and roadmap. One base theme and back end, with brands expressed through presets, settings and metafields rather than forked code, and international handled through Shopify Markets
• Lead the migrations. Start with our UK/EU business moving from Magento to Shopify, then consolidate the remaining storefronts onto the same base. Plan, sequence and report on the program
• Manage development partners. Scope, estimate, review and accept agency work against written statements of work, track spend, and bring capability in-house over time
• Integrations and data. Own the Shopify side of our NetSuite, Snowflake and GA4 connections so orders, inventory, pricing, customers and reporting stay clean
• Releases and platform health. Repository, environments, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring and peak-season change freezes. Keep site speed, uptime, app count and platform spend moving the right way
• Build the team. Hire a small engineering team and an AI-assisted workflow (Claude Code or similar) for specs, code, tests and first-pass review, with engineers owning every release decision

Skills

• Shopify B2B, Markets, checkout extensibility and Shopify Functions
• UK/EU ecommerce: VAT, localization and translation
• Multi-brand, wholesale or PE-backed company experience
• Headless or Hydrogen experience, with judgment on when not to use it
• 8+ years in ecommerce engineering, including 5+ years on Shopify Plus serving multiple brands or stores from shared code
• Led a platform migration end to end
• Built or owned an ERP integration
• Led engineers and managed agencies or contractors to scope and budget
• Writes production code today and uses AI coding tools daily
• Ideally Magento to Shopify (data, redirects, SEO, cutover)
• Ideally NetSuite

Benefits

• Fully remote

Company Overview

Body Art Alliance supplier of beauty, cosmetic, permanent makeup, tattoo, and body jewelry markets for artists. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://bodyartalliance.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Body Art Alliance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.