Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 31, 2026. Gradion scores A on the Alion truth index.
In this role, you will
Lead the design and development of a multi-market storefront in Next.js and TypeScript, covering catalog, product pages, cart and checkout flows.
Choose and justify the right rendering strategy per surface (static, incremental, server-rendered, client-side) based on traffic patterns and freshness needs.
Design the caching layer end to end, from CDN and edge through to browser, including invalidation when product, price or inventory data changes.
Own the performance budget and optimise across regions, from bundle size and hydration cost through to time to first byte.
Build and maintain the orchestration layer between the storefront and commerce services using Node.js with REST or GraphQL.
Handle multi-currency and multilingual storefront experiences so each market gets the right catalog, language and pricing.
Implement and iterate on payment and checkout flows, working with gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Support A/B testing and analytics tracking so product decisions are backed by data.
Guarantee test coverage with unit, integration and end-to-end testing, and keep CI/CD pipelines healthy.
Support observability and operational excellence with proper logging, monitoring and rollback procedures, leveraging AWS where applicable.
Guide and mentor mid-level engineers, and share context with both the Gradion team and the client's engineers.
Experiment with AI developer tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot).
What you will bring
5+ years of engineering experience on production web applications at scale.
Strong command of TypeScript, React and Next.js, plus deep JavaScript and browser fundamentals.
Backend experience with Node.js and REST or GraphQL APIs, including designing the orchestration layer between storefront and commerce services.
Solid understanding of rendering and caching strategies, and the ability to reason about the trade-offs between them.
Hands-on experience deploying to a CDN or edge platform such as Cloudflare, Vercel or CloudFront.
Working exposure to AWS (Lambda, S3 or similar services), enough to reason about how your application is deployed and run.
Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
Good spoken and written English. You will be in daily technical discussion with European engineers, including live architecture and pairing sessions.
Willingness to learn the Shopify ecosystem, even if you have not used it before.

