Head of Engineering-Founding Team Member

Lead engineering for early-stage commerce video platform, owning Shopify app development, AI-driven video workflows with Mux, and ensuring scalability across messy storefronts. Requires AI-native building, TypeScript proficiency, and end-to-end ownership.

San Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite

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About the role

Responsibilities

Own the codebase and technical direction: architecture, quality bar, shipping cadence, production reliability.
Own and evolve a live Shopify app and storefront integration, hardening it across OS 2.0 and legacy theme realities with safe rollouts and easy rollback.
Extend the mobile web creator upload flow with Mux: QR → prompt → record/upload → consent → submit.
Turn content readiness from manual workflows into product: review/approve/publish, SKU mapping, internal tooling to automation.

What Success Looks Like

Onboarding new customers becomes boring and repeatable.
Founder minutes per merchant drops materially because workflows are productized.
Scale customers without bespoke engineering per store.

Required Qualifications

End-to-end production owner: design, ship, operate, and debug; close loops fast.
Strong fundamentals: performance, reliability, security, and product/UX judgment (especially on conversion-sensitive surfaces).
AI-native builder: ship production code with agentic tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, similar); use AI for speed, keep quality high with tests/CI/observability, debug AI output errors.
Thrive in ambiguity and very small-team environment.
Ship primarily in TypeScript today, but prioritize fundamentals and AI-native approaches.

Nice to Haves

Shopify apps/theme integration experience, or embedded widget/SDK experience in hostile third-party environments.
Video pipeline familiarity (Mux or similar).
Experimentation/analytics rigor: clean event design, integrity checks, debugging.

Skills

TypeScriptShopifyMuxAI ToolsCursorClaude CodeCI/CDObservabilityMobile WebEmbedded Widgets

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