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.
• Work with and extend our headless commerce stack (Shopify, but decoupled front end).
• Collaborate closely with product owner, designers and app team developers.
• Providing sizing for complexity for new User Stories through the ICE method.
• Review code, mentor/guide less senior developers, help maintain coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot bugs, performance issues, scaling challenges, and production issues.
• Playing a key role into our architecture decisions (front end, server less functions, integrations, content pipelines).
• Investigate new tools, frameworks, or patterns that could improve developer productivity or site performance.

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.