ALSO is building a connected e-bike brand, and this role sits within the small engineering team as an early hire. The person owns the storefront frontend and design system, working at the seam between engineering and creative to ship customer-facing commerce pages.
What you'll do
- Build and own the frontend of the storefront, product detail, collection and category pages, gear shop and seasonal landing pages
- Extend and steward the design system, growing the component library, tokens and page-composition patterns
- Architect Shopify theme sections, blocks, metafields and metaobjects for self-serve page building
- Partner directly with creative and UX to drive a Figma file or idea to a shipped page
- Own merchandising surfaces including faceted filtering, variant selection, swatch logic and inventory-aware states
- Ship seasonal and concurrent campaigns with clean scheduling, staged launches and graceful takedowns
- Hold the quality bar for Core Web Vitals, accessibility, responsive behaviour, cross-browser correctness and analytics instrumentation
- Work with backend engineering to define data and API contracts and integrate commerce, catalog and account systems
What we're looking for
- Strong Shopify experience with Liquid, Online Store 2.0 architecture, Storefront and Admin GraphQL APIs, theme toolchain
- Experience building for multi-product-line brands and catalogs spanning hard goods, apparel, accessories and merch
- Proven execution across seasonal and multi-campaign launches without codebase sprawl
- Experience building or materially extending a design system, component library and token system
- Expert-level JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS architecture and a modern component framework
- Category and collection page depth, with opinions on faceted navigation, sort, pagination and variant presentation
- Performance and accessibility as defaults, including Core Web Vitals and WCAG 2.1 AA
- Autonomy to take ambiguous creative direction and drive to a shipped result
- Excellent collaboration and communication with designers and backend engineers
- 6+ years of frontend engineering, including 3+ years on commerce storefronts
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Figma Dev tools, GSAP, or Hydrogen/Oxygen/headless Shopify
- Experience with the Shopify partner ecosystem, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Markets, or B2B storefronts
- A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, tag management, motion/interaction craft, product configurators, or Node.js on AWS