Lead Engineer

ABOUT US

Amplify is one of the most established bundle and upsell apps on the Shopify App Store. Thousands of merchants use our product to grow revenue through bundles, upsells, and cross-sells.

We're a profitable, fully remote startup with a lean, experienced team and very little organizational overhead.

We're looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of our technical direction and help shape how we build software for the next stage of the company.

Remote across Europe. This role is fully remote and open to candidates currently living in Europe.

THE ROLE

You'll be the senior technical authority at Amplify.

You'll own architecture and major engineering decisions, stay hands-on with the code, lead the development team, and work closely with the General Manager on turning business goals into technical execution.

A major part of the role is helping us move toward a much more AI-native development process — where agents become deeply integrated into how software is specified, built, tested, reviewed, and maintained.

This is not a pure management role. We want someone who leads by building.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the architecture, technical direction, and major engineering decisions.
• Lead and mentor the development team.
• Stay hands-on with backend development and difficult technical problems.
• Drive the adoption of AI agents across the development process.
• Improve testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Keep a mature production system evolving without unnecessary rewrites or complexity.
• Translate business goals into practical technical plans.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Strong senior-level backend engineering experience, ideally in TypeScript / Node.
• Experience acting as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, or similar.
• Deep technical judgment and the confidence to be the company's main engineering authority.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern AI coding tools and agentic development workflows.
• Experience owning and evolving mature production systems.
• Comfortable leading a small engineering team while remaining close to the code.
• Strong communication and a pragmatic approach to engineering.

Our stack is NestJS, Vue 3 / Vite, PostgreSQL, and GCP. Exact stack experience is useful, but strong adjacent experience is perfectly fine.

NICE TO HAVE

• Shopify or e-commerce experience.
• NestJS, Vue, or GCP experience.
• Founder, founding-engineer, or early-stage startup experience.
• Experience introducing AI-first development practices across a team.

WHY AMPLIFY

• Real ownership. You'll have genuine authority over the technical direction of the company.
• Established and profitable. A mature product, thousands of customers, and a real business behind it.
• Build the next development model. You'll have the freedom to push beyond simply using AI coding tools and help design how an AI-native engineering team actually works.
• High autonomy. The team works independently against clear company objectives rather than through layers of management.
• Meaningful performance bonuses. When the company does well, the team shares in the upside.
• Small team, visible impact. Your decisions quickly translate into real changes in the product and the business.