Principal Solutions Architect (Front-End Focused)

We’re looking for a Principal Solutions Architect (Front-End Focused) to lead the technical direction of high-traffic, headless commerce projects for major retail brands. You’ll own front-end architecture, drive performance and engineering standards, translate business requirements into technical solutions, and collaborate directly with clients and distributed engineering teams.

Location: Europe, LATAM, or Canada.

Tools: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Shopify Plus / Salesforce Commerce Cloud / Big Commerce / SCAYLE, Vercel, CI/CD pipelines, Cursor and/or Claude Code, ChatGPT, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Slack, Jira, Confluence.

Responsibilities:

Design and own scalable front-end architectures using Next.js, React, and TypeScript for enterprise commerce projects.

Break down epics into clear, actionable user stories with acceptance criteria, technical dependencies, and complexity estimates.

Lead architectural decisions across rendering, state management, caching, and performance optimization, documenting key decisions in ADRs.

Drive Core Web Vitals and establish performance standards across the delivery team.

Define coding standards, project conventions, and documentation that support consistent development by both engineers and AI agents.

Collaborate with clients during discovery to translate business requirements into scalable and practical architecture roadmaps.

Resolve technical ambiguity before development begins, unblock engineers, and address architectural drift when implementation deviates from the intended design.

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience leading front-end architecture decisions and providing technical direction for distributed engineering teams.

Proven ability to design scalable front-end systems for complex, enterprise-level applications.

Deep expertise in Next.js (App Router, React Server Components), React, TypeScript, and modern web architecture, including SSR, edge computing, and serverless patterns.

Strong background in web performance engineering, including Core Web Vitals, CDN configuration, caching strategies, and delivering measurable performance improvements.

Strong written and spoken English with the ability to communicate technical concepts, explain architectural trade-offs, and align solutions with client expectations.

Experience with AI-assisted / agentic development, including writing clear specifications, maintaining documentation as technical context, and structuring features so AI-generated code is reliable and reviewable.

Preffered Qualifications:

Familiarity with commerce platforms (Shopify Storefront API, SFCC Composable Storefront, Big Commerce).

Experience with headless CMS platforms (Contentful, Sanity, Contentstack).

What We Offer:

Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Fully remote position with a distributed, async-first team.

Opportunity to shape the architecture of high-traffic commerce platforms for major retail brands.

Direct collaboration with clients and experienced engineering teams.