Fullstack AI Builder & Lead

About GoKwik

GoKwik is a growth operating system for D2C and eCommerce brands, powering merchants across checkout optimisation, RTO reduction, payments, retention, and post-purchase engagement.

Today, GoKwik enables 15,000+ merchants globally, processes approximately $2 billion in GMV, and is rapidly scaling across India, the UK, Europe, and the US.

Backed by RTP Global, Z47, Peak XV, and Think Investments, GoKwik has raised $68 million in funding, including a $13 million growth round in June 2025. GoKwik is building AI-powered infrastructure to shape the future of eCommerce.

Why This Role Matters

As a Tech Lead - Shopify Product, you will own a live, growing Shopify ecosystem product end to end. Merchants already depend on it every day, so every release, integration, and fix you ship directly shapes their conversions, storefront experience, and trust in GoKwik.

This is a builder's role, not a management-only position. Your time will be distributed across three key areas:

• 40% - Hands-on Execution: Writing and reviewing code with AI.
• 30% - Technical Leadership: Making technical decisions, defining architecture, and driving an AI-driven SDLC.
• 30% - Team & Business Collaboration: Leading the team and working closely with product, business, and merchants.

Your core identity is that of a JavaScript/frontend engineer who can comfortably work across the stack, from the browser to Node.js services, databases, and cloud infrastructure.

You will set the technical direction for the product, make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and technical debt, and use AI to improve engineering velocity and production stability.

What You'll Own

1. Hands-on Delivery

• Write and review product code with AI.
• Ship meaningful features and unblock engineers.
• Ensure predictable and consistent releases.

2. Production Debugging

• Own complex debugging across browser/UI, network, APIs, databases, third-party integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive root-cause fixes rather than temporary patches.

3. Planning & Trade-offs

• Translate business requirements into actionable plans.
• Balance delivery speed, quality, technical debt, testing, observability, and performance.

4. Architecture & Design

• Make practical architecture and design decisions across React/Next.js, Node.js services, Shopify integrations, and high-traffic eCommerce journeys.

5. AI-Driven SDLC

• Continuously improve how the team plans, builds, tests, reviews, debugs, and releases using AI.
• Measure improvements in engineering velocity and production stability.

6. Reliability & Infrastructure

• Guide decisions around CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and AWS.
• Ensure product stability as the platform scales.

7. Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor engineers.
• Raise the bar on code reviews and accountability.
• Own end-to-end engineering execution.

8. Product & Business Partnership

• Partner with product and business teams on priorities and outcomes.
• Ensure engineering efforts remain aligned with merchant impact.

9. Merchant Engagement

• Engage directly with merchants to diagnose issues, explain technical trade-offs, and build lasting trust.

Who You Are

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in frontend and 2+ years in backend or full-stack roles.
• Frontend Expertise: Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, browser internals, and cross-browser behaviour.
• Debugging Skills: Exceptional debugging instincts. Ability to reproduce and isolate issues, navigate browser DevTools, logs, metrics, and traces, and resolve problems across system boundaries.
• Full-Stack Capability: Comfortable building and debugging Node.js APIs and working with databases such as PostgreSQL, caches such as Redis, and webhooks.
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Practical understanding of AWS basics, deployments, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and production incident handling. DevOps specialisation is not required.
• Engineering Fundamentals: Strong understanding of performance and Core Web Vitals, unit, integration, and E2E testing, code quality, and reliable releases.
• AI Curiosity: Actively experiment with coding agents, LLM APIs, automation, or personal prototypes, and be able to discuss what you have built and learned.
• Ownership & Communication: Ability to deliver consistently, coach engineers, navigate ambiguity, and communicate clearly with non-engineering stakeholders and merchants.

Good to Have

• Experience with Shopify apps, APIs, webhooks, and storefront/headless integrations.
• Experience working on high-scale eCommerce products.
• Familiarity with Next.js, Vite, or Svelte.
• Experience with AI-assisted developer workflows.

Why GoKwik

At GoKwik, you'll own a real product already used by merchants, not just a prototype. You'll stay close to the code while shaping delivery, architecture, customer experience, and team growth, with a direct impact on the thousands of merchants who rely on GoKwik every day.

You'll have the autonomy to continuously optimise the SDLC with AI, the opportunity to build at eCommerce scale, and the chance to grow in a collaborative, engineering-led environment with strong career growth potential.

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