Senior Frontend Developer
About us: Iconic brand, tiny company.
Polaroid was founded in 1937 by one of the most seminal innovators of the 20th century, Edwin Land. His motto was, “don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” In 2008, Polaroid shuttered its last factory but a group of diehard fans came together as The Impossible Project to save instant film. Over 10 years later that startup acquired what was left of Polaroid and today we’re again a small group of people passionate about empowering creators to change the world in the name of Polaroid.
Job Summary:
As Senior Developer on the eCommerce team, you’ll be responsible for maintaining, improving, and expanding Polaroid.com. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable code that ensures our website is fast, stable, and ready to scale.
Together with the Product Owner you’ll set technical direction.
Key responsibilities:
Maintain and evolve our existing site and features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and stability.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor new features, APIs, and integrations across our headless commerce stack.
Work with and extend our headless commerce architecture, taking ownership of front end, serverless functions, system integrations, and content pipelines.
Provide sizing and complexity assessments for new User Stories using the ICE method, contributing to realistic planning and delivery.
Review code, mentor and guide less senior developer(s), and uphold coding standards and engineering best practices.
Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, performance issues, scaling challenges, and production incidents with a strong sense of ownership.
Own and drive architectural decisions, ensuring the long term scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our technology stack.
Evaluate, select, and implement new tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns that improve developer productivity, performance, and future readiness of the platform.
Take responsibility for stack efficiency, performance, and cost optimization, continuously improving infrastructure and operational efficiency to reduce P&L impact and support margin improvement.
Lead stack optimization initiatives and automation efforts that increase efficiency across the broader organization, including future B2B initiatives and cross functional digital projects.
Identify and recommend best in class, next generation technologies, including AI driven solutions where relevant, and translate them into practical implementations that create measurable business value.
Our stack:
JavaScript / TypeScript (full stack).
Sanity CMS (content platform).
Vercel (hosting and deployments).
Headless Shopify (commerce backend via APIs).
REST / GraphQL APIs.
Modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js or similar).
CI/CD pipelines, performance tooling, monitoring.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience building web applications.
Fluency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
Experience with modern front-end frameworks (React / Next.js preferred).
Familiarity with headless CMS and API-driven commerce (Shopify or similar).
Understands best practices in performance, testing, and maintainable code.
Can work independently on assigned tickets and deliver high-quality solutions.
Enjoys collaborating with a small, focused team.
Nice-to-have:
Sanity CMS experience.
Prior work on high-traffic eCommerce platforms.
Knowledge of serverless functions, caching strategies, and observability tools.
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