Key skills
Full-stack developmentReactNext.jsTypeScriptState managementCloud deploymentsEcommerce experienceGraphQLUX backgroundOpen-source contributionsAIReduxZustandVersion ControlShopifyCI/CD
About this role
Tapcart is the leading mobile app platform for the world’s fastest-growing Shopify brands, helping marketers and eCommerce teams create differentiated customer experiences. The Senior Software Engineer on the CMS Team will build the authoring experience for merchants, enabling them to manage their accounts and deploy apps while integrating advanced AI features.
Responsibilities:
- Build an intuitive, drag‑and‑drop editor that visualizes app composition in real time
- Integrate AI across our feature set to unlock super-human productivity
- Deliver command-line tools for scaffolding, custom code integration, version control support, and CI/CD pipelines
- Prototype new editor features in weekly sprints, validate with live merchants, iterate, and roll out to thousands of apps
- Write and maintain clean, testable code and comprehensive documentation for both the editor and CLI
Requirements:
- 5-7 years of experience in software engineering
- 3+ years of full-stack development with React + Next.js (TypeScript)
- Strong understanding of state management (Redux, Zustand, Recoil) and experience with drag-and-drop libraries
- Familiarity with cloud deployments and hosting
- Ability to ship production-ready code in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
- Shopify or ecommerce experience, prior work on editor/CMS applications
- GraphQL experience
- Background in UX, product or design critique
- Contributions to open-source component libraries, command-line tools, or design-system tooling