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    LatamCent

    Venture Capital

    Forward Deployed Design Engineer

    Any, ColombiaRemoteFull-time3–6 yrs experiencePosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    The Opportunity

    This role exists because the company's customers are strong-opinionated consumer brands who need a dedicated technical partner turning their Shopify data into a polished, on-brand mobile app fast. In your first 90 days you'll take ownership of a set of live customer accounts and start shipping their implementation requests directly. By month 12, you'll be the go-to technical partner for a growing roster of brands, with a library of documented patterns behind you. If you get real satisfaction from taking a customer's ask in the morning and shipping it by afternoon, this is built for you.

    What You'll Own

    • Scope, build, and ship customer implementation requests end to end, bundle builders with conditional pricing, custom PDP modules, loyalty-gated collections, segmented campaigns, personalized feeds, then move to the next one.

    • Turn a customer's existing Shopify data (product, variant, and collection metafields, metaobject entries) into correct, working app UI, quickly and repeatedly, this is the daily core of the job.

    • Lead new customer launches: audit their Shopify setup, map their custom data to the platform, configure their initial app, and ship a live launch in roughly 2–3 weeks.

    • Hold the long-term technical relationship for the accounts you onboard, you're the person who knows their store and what they care about.

    • Execute cleanly inside each customer's existing brand system, their colors, type, spacing, tone, so every build feels native to their brand, not templated.

    • Triage a request queue that always outpaces available hours, deciding what ships this week in partnership with the customer and the internal CS team.

    • Convert repeat problems into documented internal playbooks, and surface recurring customer asks to leadership as concrete product gaps.

    What We're Looking For

    • 3–6 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years shipping React Native in production, navigation, native modules, performance debugging, iOS/Android platform differences.

    • 2+ years working deeply inside the Shopify ecosystem, with production experience building metafield- and metaobject-driven UI (definitions, namespaces, ownership models, storefront access).

    • Hands-on production experience with the Shopify Admin API (GraphQL) and Storefront API, including schema traversal, pagination, and throttling.

    • Comfortable reading and writing Liquid fluently, and experienced modifying or building production Online Store 2.0 themes (sections, blocks, dynamic sources, app blocks).

    • Production experience with TypeScript, React, and Node in customer-facing products.

    • Real design judgment: design-literate, comfortable reading Figma files and extracting a brand's tokens, able to build cleanly inside an existing visual system rather than inventing a new one.

    • Comfortable communicating with customers daily through Slack and our support platform, with regular live calls as needed — scoping on the fly, and writing clearly (Slack updates, Loom walkthroughs, email).

    Nice to Have

    • Background at a Shopify Partner agency, Shopify implementation shop, or Shopify app company — we've had strong results with people who come from fast-turnaround, client-facing service delivery.

    • Familiarity with Shopify Plus tooling, Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Flow, B2B, Markets.

    • Working knowledge of common e-commerce ecosystem tools (Klaviyo, Attentive, Recharge, Rebuy, Yotpo, Loop, Gorgias, Okendo or similar) and how they integrate with Shopify.

    • Exposure to headless commerce patterns (Hydrogen, Oxygen, or Next.js storefronts).

    • Deep Figma fluency, beyond reading and extracting tokens.

    Tools and Stack: React Native (iOS/Android), TypeScript, React, Node, Shopify Admin & Storefront APIs (GraphQL), Liquid, Figma.

    Hiring Details

    • Location: Remote, Latin America

    • Time Zone: US business-hours overlap (Eastern to Pacific all workable)

    • Type: Full-time

    About the company

    A founder-led, AI-native mobile commerce platform that turns Shopify stores into fully native mobile apps. Their product currently powers the apps of 30+ well-known direct-to-consumer brands, with a combined reach of well over 10 million monthly US shoppers.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    LatamCent

    LatamCent is a venture capital firm that invests in and supports early-stage technology startups across Latin America.

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