Senior Front-End Engineer Job Indianapolis Indiana USA,Software Development

Location: Indianapolis

About Our Company

At Lids Sports Group, we don’t just sell hats - we fuel fandom. As the largest licensed sports retailer in North America, we bring sports, fashion, and culture together in more than 1,300 stores nationwide. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lids delivers premium, fan-driven products and unforgettable retail experiences.

Brief Description

Senior Front-End Engineer

About Our Company

Our stores feature officially licensed headwear and apparel from collegiate and professional teams, alongside top brands like Champion, Nike, New Era, Lululemon Athletica, and Mitchell & Ness. We’re also the industry leader in on-demand customization, offering in-store embroidery that turns everyday gear into one-of-a-kind statements.

From specialty concept stores for the NBA and NHL to iconic clubhouse destinations for the Yankees and Dodgers, we create immersive retail experiences that celebrate the teams fans love. Through collaborations with brands like Marvel, Peanuts, and The Walt Disney Company, Lids continues to redefine how fans represent their teams - in style.

General Position Summary

The Senior Front-End Engineer will design, develop, and optimize modern eCommerce experiences across Shopify and related digital commerce platforms. This role will lead customer-facing storefront development and build and support integrations among Shopify, enterprise applications, third-party services, and internal platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep front-end engineering expertise with hands‑on experience with Shopify, APIs, and systems integration, and collaborates across Product, UX, Marketing, Merchandising, Store Ops, ERP, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing digital experiences.

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Duties and Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Shopify storefronts using Shopify Plus, Liquid, JavaScript, Type Script, HTML, and CSS.
Build responsive, accessible, and high-performing experiences across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
Develop custom Shopify themes, reusable components, sections, app extensions, and checkout extensions.
Architect and support integrations between Shopify and ERP, OMS, PIM, CRM, payment, tax, fulfillment, search, and marketing platforms.
Develop and consume REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, and event-driven services for real-time and batch integrations.
Build reusable React and Next.js components and contribute to shared front-end standards and design systems.
Partner with UX/UI designers to translate requirements and design concepts into scalable, production-ready experiences.
Optimize Core Web Vitals, SEO, accessibility, observability, site reliability, and conversion performance.
Collaborate with backend, integration, security, data, architecture, product, quality assurance, and business teams.
Troubleshoot production issues and perform root‑cause analysis across storefront, application, API, and integration layers.
Participate in architecture reviews and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, maintainability, and security.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, documentation, and engineering best practices.
Design, implement, and support automated CI/CD pipelines for Shopify themes, applications, and extensions using Shopify CLI, Git, and Azure Dev Ops, including automated validation, environment promotion, release management, production deployments, and rollback procedures.
Manage Shopify theme lifecycle, including preview themes, version control, Theme Access, Shopify CLI, deployment automation, and production publishing while preserving store configuration and ensuring reliable rollback capabilities.
Experience implementing Shopify customer authentication using the Customer Account API, passwordless one‑time passcodes, OAuth 2.0, PKCE, and secure session management.
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