Senior Full-Stack Engineer -Headless Commerce

• **About Plaud Inc.**
• Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.
• Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.
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• **Why You Should Join Us**
• Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.
• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.
• We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to lead the technical execution of Plaud's transition from Shopify Liquid to a headless commerce stack. This is the foundational engineering role for Plaud's e-commerce platform for the future. You will treat the website as a long-lived product platform — not a one-shot rebuild.
• **What You Will Do**- Architecture & Code Quality
• Design and lead the Hydrogen + Shopify Storefront API + Contentful architecture
• Set patterns for multi-locale routing (plaud.ai/[lang-country]), data fetching, caching, edge runtime
• Define and enforce performance budgets (LCP- Lead CI/CD, preview deploys, observability, and code review standards
• Migration Execution
• Own phase-by-phase migration: non-commerce pages → PDP → Collection → Checkout → Multi-region
• Drive technical decisions on App migrations (Klaviyo SDK, Refersion/Impact, Yotpo, Algolia)
• Ensure 95%+ Ads pixel parity in dual-tracking phase
• Coordinate redirect mapping and SEO-safe URL migration
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Partner with Marketing (Performance + Lifecycle), SEO, Finance, Logistics, and Partnership teams
• Translate business requirements into engineering work; defend engineering bandwidth from scope creep
• Own the technical narrative for cross-functional decision gates (M0–M11)
• Team Leadership
• Recruit and mentor 2 junior engineers; embed AI-augmented development (Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot) as default
• Establish and enforce quality bars (testing, A11y, performance)
• Drive engineering culture: ownership, ship velocity, blameless postmortems
• **Skills, Qualifications And Experience We Look For**
• 5+ years full-stack web engineering with React-based stacks (Next.js, Remix, or Hydrogen)
• Production experience with headless commerce on Shopify Storefront API (or comparable: Commercetools, BigCommerce, Saleor)
• Strong Ruby (Rails or scripting) — comfortable with Shopify backend tooling and Shopify Functions
• HTML Canvas / WebGL or graphics-heavy frontend experience
• Proven track record on Core Web Vitals optimization at production scale
• Hands-on with at least one edge runtime: Cloudflare Workers/Pages, Shopify Oxygen, Vercel Edge, or AWS Lambda@Edge
• Has owned a Liquid → Headless or comparable major frontend migration end-to-end
• Demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal) of ≥2 engineers
• **Preffered Qualifications**
• TypeScript fluency at scale
• Tailwind CSS in a design-system context
• Experience with Algolia, Searchspring, or Coveo
• Integration experience with Klaviyo, Refersion / Impact.com, Avalara / Shopify Tax
• Direct-to-consumer brand or premium SaaS background
• Multi-locale / multi-currency rollout experience
• **What we offer**
• Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive Compensation: $150K-$260K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
• Comprehensive

Benefits

• Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
• New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
• Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
• Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.

Perks

• Best office equipment.
• Annual offsites.
• Free office drinks and snacks.
• Commuter

Benefits

• *Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics..*