ECommerce Engineer

Summary

Join Hydrow as an eCommerce Engineer and contribute to the development of our cutting-edge, headless eCommerce platform. You will build, optimize, and scale the web experience for our direct-to-consumer sales channel, collaborating closely with product, UX, and marketing teams. This hands-on role involves developing high-performance, conversion-driven features to enhance the purchasing experience on Hydrow.com. You will have opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning within a supportive and innovative team environment. The ideal candidate possesses strong full-stack web application development skills with experience in React frameworks, eCommerce applications, and modern frontend development practices. Hydrow offers a comprehensive benefits package including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, parental leave, unlimited PTO, and more.

Requirements

• Professional experience building full-stack web applications with React web frameworks, such as Next.js , Remix, Vue (2+ years minimum)
• Experience building eCommerce applications with Shopify or similar backend services in a headless environment (1+ years minimum)
• Expertise in modern frontend development practices, including crafting responsive, accessible and visually engaging user interfaces using component-based CSS frameworks and design systems
• Expertise with analytics and tag management tools (such as GTM), data layer events and an understanding of SEO principles
• Familiarity with key web architecture elements such as browser behavior, consuming web services, API-first integration, serverless functions, middleware, web-analytics and server-side JS principles
• A keen focus on building for performance, optimizing for core web vitals and understanding key drivers

Responsibilities

• Acquaint yourself with Hydrow’s system landscape, including architecture, processes, tools and incident response framework
• Get familiar with our eCommerce codebase and development workflow by shadowing ongoing feature development and taking on development of components and site functionality
• Participate in code reviews, feature grooming and collaborative technical discussions
• Take ownership of high-impact feature development and technical initiatives
• Join with the broader team in our support rotation for website related incident response and escalation
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and developers to build best-fit solutions for Hydrow.com
• Contribute to Hydrow’s ecommerce development standards and delivery process
• Contribute to the management of site technical metrics and monitoring such as availability, performance and technical SEO
• Learn our tagging, analytics and performance monitoring strategies
• Work closely with our marketing team to support data-driven decision making through experimentation
• Drive improvements in engineering metrics to reduce cycle times, improve quality and non-functional metrics
• Maintain and enhance resiliency and our observability stack
• Contribute to continuous optimization and evolution of our Next.js-based architecture

Preferred Qualifications

You tackle complex challenges and collaborate effectively in a team. You adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and cope effectively with complexity and change, while maintaining organization and control

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Premiums 100% Paid For By Hydrow
• 6 Months Fully Paid Primary and Secondary Parental Leave
• Unlimited PTO Policy
• $150/week Reimbursable for Childcare
• 401k
• Free Membership to the Hydrow App and access to a free Hydrow