HE4 - Front-end Developer React / React Router / Typescript

We are seeking an experienced Frontend Developer with strong React, React Router, and TypeScript skills to build and continuously improve a headless ecommerce storefront running on Cloudflare Workers and backed by our own commerce platform. This is primarily a frontend position (roughly 80% frontend, 20% backend). Most of your time will go into the React storefront: product and collection pages, search, cart, checkout, and customer accounts. The storefront talks to our Python/Django backend over a typed JSON API, and you'll make small, well-scoped backend changes when a frontend feature needs them, such as adding a field to an API response or a new endpoint, with support from the backend team.

You'll work in an established, well-tested codebase and collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders to build polished ecommerce experiences, troubleshoot issues, evaluate feature feasibility, and recommend practical solutions.

Responsibilities

● Build and improve a server-rendered React storefront using React Router (framework mode) and TypeScript

● Build responsive, accessible interfaces with HTML, CSS, and Tailwind CSS

● Consume our REST/JSON API (types generated from its OpenAPI schema) for products, variants, collections, search, cart, checkout, orders, and accounts

● Build and maintain the checkout experience with Stripe Elements

● Build pages and content components with the Storyblok headless CMS

● Translate business requirements and rough mockups into intuitive, functional ecommerce experiences

● Evaluate proposed features for technical feasibility and recommend alternatives when API or platform limitations exist

● Troubleshoot issues across the storefront, the API, browser behavior, and third-party integrations

● Make light backend changes in Python/Django (API fields, small endpoints, tests) when a frontend feature needs them

● Implement and troubleshoot analytics and marketing integrations (GA4, Klaviyo)

● Support ecommerce SEO requirements including redirects, canonical tags, structured data, breadcrumbs, metadata, and indexability

● Improve frontend performance (Core Web Vitals), usability, and maintainability

● Write unit tests (Vitest, Testing Library) and end-to-end tests (Playwright) as part of a test-first workflow

● Communicate technical constraints, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical team members

Requirements

● 3+ years of professional experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

● Hands-on experience with React Router 7 / Remix or a similar server-rendering React framework (e.g. Next.js)

● Experience building or maintaining ecommerce storefronts (product pages, faceted search, cart, checkout)

● Experience consuming REST/JSON APIs and integrating third-party services

● Working knowledge of a backend language and framework, preferably Python/Django, enough to read the code and make small changes

● Experience writing automated tests for frontend code

● Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, including browser dev tools and network inspection

● Proficiency with Git and pull-request-based workflows

● Ability to work within and improve an existing codebase

Frontend / Product

● Strong UI/UX judgment

● Ability to translate business requirements or rough mockups into functional interfaces

● Understanding of responsive and accessible frontend development

● Ability to identify technical or usability limitations before implementation

● Ability to recommend practical alternatives when a requested approach is not technically appropriate

Communication

● Excellent English communication skills

● Able to clearly explain technical constraints and tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

● Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of assigned work

Nice to Have

Candidates will receive additional consideration for experience with:

● Cloudflare Workers or another edge runtime

● Tailwind CSS

● Storyblok or another headless CMS

● Stripe (Payment Element, Payment Intents)

● Django, Django Ninja/FastAPI, or PostgreSQL

● Elasticsearch-backed search UX (facets, autocomplete, recommendations)

● Ecommerce analytics and event tracking, including GA4

● Klaviyo or similar marketing integrations in a headless environment

● Ecommerce SEO and replatforming/site migrations

● Playwright, OpenAPI-generated types, and CI/CD workflows

● AI coding assistants as part of daily development