Senior Software Engineer - Full stack Typescript
About The Position
Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce , Feedonomics , and Makeswift , we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Simply said, we help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you. At Makeswift we're on a mission to build the best tool for creative minds to bring their ideas to the world. The concept is simple: combine the experience of a buttery-smooth, elegant design tool with the infrastructure required to go to production. We seek a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in full stack TypeScript to help us deliver the Makeswift product to a broader market by designing, prototyping, and shipping features that will power the best commerce frontends. You’ll play a key role in building the product experiences that power Makeswift’s visual builder, content editing capabilities, and integrations with third-party commerce platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building web applications
- Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript with proven production experience
- Deep understanding of web standards like HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs (e.g., DOM, Fetch API, etc.)
- Experience with troubleshooting and optimizing web performance (i.e., Core Web Vitals)
- Understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs
- Experience with UI testing frameworks and libraries (e.g., Vitest, Jest, Playwright, React Testing Library, etc.)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and analytics tooling (e.g., Sentry, Segment, etc.)
- Comfortable with CI/CD tools and hosting providers (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Vercel, GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Excellent problem solving skills; able to balance technical excellence with pragmatic solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts clearly
Nice To Haves
- Skilled with managing complex frontend application state in React and familiarity with the available tools (e.g., Redux, Zustand, MobX, etc.)
- Experience with client-side libraries for data fetching (e.g., Apollo Client, TanStack Query, SWR, etc.)
- Familiarity with bundlers and transpilers (e.g., Webpack, Vite, Babel, Rollup, etc.)
- Experience building visual editing or design tools
- Background in ecommerce platforms
- Experience with NestJS
Responsibilities
- Implement new onboarding flows on the Makeswift app, closely collaborating with the Product team to turn designs and prototypes into reality
- Solve for end-to-end product experiences across Makeswift and third-party integrations
- Instrument and measure the product signals to validate bets
- Work on Makeswift’s core rich text editing experience to deliver a world-class authoring experience in the Makeswift builder
- Collaborate with Product and the rest of the engineering team to design and implement UI and APIs for structured content, enabling Makeswift to expand its product portfolio
- Work on data structures that enable realtime collaboration and deep merging for visually creating components and localizing Makeswift content
- Improve our React-based UI design system and develop new components for it that follow accessibility best practices, deliver great performance, and have thoughtful component API design
- Expand Makeswift’s API to support better first and third party integrations for use cases across ecommerce, translations, search, AI, and more
- Explore how we can leverage LLMs to solve Makeswift’s customer problems by collaborating with our Agents team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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