Senior BigCommerce Front-End Engineer
We are seeking a Senior BigCommerce Front-End Engineer to own storefront architecture, drive advanced customizations, and lead front-end engineering teams in delivering high-performing, scalable commerce experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end BigCommerce storefront architecture, including headless and native Stencil builds, design system integration, component libraries, and performance guardrails
- Stand up and maintain modern front-end frameworks, API orchestration layers, and personalization hooks that power dynamic, omnichannel experiences
- Translate UX designs into production-quality, responsive UI with attention to accessibility and localization/internationalization requirements
- Lead code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and enable automated testing/CI pipelines for storefront repositories
- Implement advanced BigCommerce customizations such as checkout flows, theme extensions, GraphQL storefront API usage, micro-frontend patterns, and third-party app integrations
- Orchestrate CMS, DAM, and marketing tool integrations to streamline content operations, campaigns, and PIM-driven merchandising updates
- Optimize site speed, SEO, and Core Web Vitals, and maintain observability dashboards for proactive issue detection
- Mentor nearshore/offshore front-end engineers, coordinate day-to-day tasks, unblock dependencies, and foster an AI-augmented development culture
- Capture best practices, runbooks, and playbooks that support transition, onboarding, and continuous improvement without disrupting BAU releases
Requirements
- 5–10 years of overall front-end engineering experience delivering enterprise commerce or experience platforms
- Expertise in BigCommerce, including headless implementations using Storefront GraphQL, REST Admin API, Channels API, and BigCommerce Widgets/App frameworks
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Next.js (or Remix), and Node.js
- Skills in CSS-in-JS, state management (Redux, Zustand), and component-driven development (Storybook, atomic design)
- Proven success leading client-facing engagements, with the ability to translate UX and business goals into technical plans and articulate trade-offs in real time
- Demonstrated capabilities delivering resilient, high-performing frontend experiences integrated with MACH services (CMS, search, personalization engines, CDP/CRM, DAM)
- Strong command of responsive design, accessibility, SEO, analytics tagging, and A/B testing enablement
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CircleCI)
- Familiarity with automated testing (Jest, Playwright/Cypress) and performance optimization tools (Lighthouse, WebPageTest)
Nice to have
- Exposure to cloud AI-enabled experiences, personalization engines, or conversational/agentic commerce solutions
- Familiarity with Shopify, commercetools, or SAP Commerce and ability to cross-pollinate composable best practices
- Knowledge of retail/promotional calendars, multi-lingual content operations, and store-level digital tactics
- Experience with design ops, Figma-to-code workflows, and design system governance
- Comfort leveraging AI copilots and automation to accelerate development and regression coverage
