Application Engineer

ABOUT AWAY We believe travel makes us better. Launched in 2016 with one perfectly designed carry-on, we now offer a range of luggage and travel essentials for every journey. Together we create, innovate, and embark on this journey as a community of travelers, helping to make travel more seamless for everyone. JOIN THE CREW We are hiring an Application Engineer to join our Technology team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering, you will play a key role in supporting and enhancing Away’s Shopify storefront, custom theme extensions, and POS integrations. You’ll implement fast, elegant, and conversion-focused digital experiences across our customer touchpoints, partnering with Product, Brand, and Growth Marketing teams to maintain existing systems and deliver new features that help the business scale. WHAT YOU’LL DO AS THE APPLICATION ENGINEER - You’ll maintain and update Away’s Shopify theme, using Liquid templating to implement design changes and features that ensure a performant and brand-aligned storefront - You’ll contribute to the development of internal Shopify apps using Node.js and Remix, assisting with features for promotions, bundling, and checkout customizations under the guidance of senior engineers. - You’ll troubleshoot and resolve bugs within the Shopify storefront and POS integrations, serving as a reliable point of contact for operational issues and escalating high-complexity challenges when necessary - You’ll support Away’s retail team by implementing updates to Shopify POS UI extensions and assisting with the maintenance of hardware integrations - You’ll build and manage standard webhooks and backend event handlers, ensuring reliable data flow between Shopify and third-party platforms like Klaviyo and AfterShip - You’ll follow established best practices for performance, accessibility, and SEO across Shopify surfaces, ensuring our web properties meet technical standards - You’ll help reduce technical debt by assisting with upgrades to developer tooling and keeping our stack aligned with Shopify’s latest platform features. - You’ll contribute to engineering documentation and participate in team code reviews, supporting a collaborative environment and a "no-ego" approach to feedback - You’ll leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate the delivery of well-scoped tasks and contribute to the maintenance of AI-backed features - You’ll partner with Growth, Brand, and Product teams to ship defined features across web properties, ensuring a seamless e-commerce experience - You’ll assist Data Engineering in implementing server-side event tracking via GTM and Amplitude to ensure reliable product analytics and attribution - Solution-Oriented Collaboration: Work closely with your manager to identify and plan technical solutions. Proactively suggest AI-driven workflows to handle unplanned work or maintenance - Use AI to generate comprehensive unit tests and documentation for all new code, ensuring system resilience WHO YOU ARE - You have 3 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1 year of hands-on Shopify development - Strong familiarity with the Shopify ecosystem, including Liquid, Storefront API, and Theme App Extensions. You have a proven ability to build and maintain performant, brand-aligned theme customizations - Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience in React and modern front-end tooling. You are comfortable building and deploying Shopify apps using Node.js and Remix (or equivalent frameworks) - A solid understanding of REST and GraphQL APIs. - You are eager to use AI-powered coding agents (like Cursor or Claude Code) to improve your efficiency and deliver high-quality code - You approach technical challenges methodically, identifying solutions for low-to-mid complexity issues and knowing when to escalate more complex trade-offs to senior leads - You are solution-oriented and don’t wait for every instruction; you identify technic