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GoKwik is building AI-powered infrastructure to shape the future of eCommerce.\nWhy This Role Matters\nAs 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.\nThis is a builder's role, not a management-only position. Your time will be distributed across three key areas:\n40% - Hands-on Execution: Writing and reviewing code with AI.\n30% - Technical Leadership: Making technical decisions, defining architecture, and driving an AI-driven SDLC.\n30% - Team & Business Collaboration: Leading the team and working closely with product, business, and merchants.\nYour 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.\nYou 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.\nWhat You'll Own\n1. Hands-on Delivery\nWrite and review product code with AI.\nShip meaningful features and unblock engineers.\nEnsure predictable and consistent releases.\n2. Production Debugging\nOwn complex debugging across browser/UI, network, APIs, databases, third-party integrations, and cloud infrastructure.\nDrive root-cause fixes rather than temporary patches.\n3. Planning & Trade-offs\nTranslate business requirements into actionable plans.\nBalance delivery speed, quality, technical debt, testing, observability, and performance.\n4. Architecture & Design\nMake practical architecture and design decisions across React/Next.js, Node.js services, Shopify integrations, and high-traffic eCommerce journeys.\n5. AI-Driven SDLC\nContinuously improve how the team plans, builds, tests, reviews, debugs, and releases using AI.\nMeasure improvements in engineering velocity and production stability.\n6. Reliability & Infrastructure\nGuide decisions around CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and AWS.\nEnsure product stability as the platform scales.\n7. Team Leadership\nLead and mentor engineers.\nRaise the bar on code reviews and accountability.\nOwn end-to-end engineering execution.\n8. Product & Business Partnership\nPartner with product and business teams on priorities and outcomes.\nEnsure engineering efforts remain aligned with merchant impact.\n9. Merchant Engagement\nEngage directly with merchants to diagnose issues, explain technical trade-offs, and build lasting trust.\nWho You Are\nExperience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in frontend and 2+ years in backend or full-stack roles.\nFrontend Expertise: Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, browser internals, and cross-browser behaviour.\nDebugging Skills: Exceptional debugging instincts. Ability to reproduce and isolate issues, navigate browser DevTools, logs, metrics, and traces, and resolve problems across system boundaries.\nFull-Stack Capability: Comfortable building and debugging Node.js APIs and working with databases such as PostgreSQL, caches such as Redis, and webhooks.\nInfrastructure Knowledge: Practical understanding of AWS basics, deployments, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and production incident handling. 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