LatamCent

Forward Deployed Design Engineer at LatamCent (Argentina)

LatamCent· Argentina·

Role details

Work type
Remote
Employment
Full-Time

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.

Why work at LatamCent

  • Remote-first culture: All open positions are remote. latamcent.com/careers
  • Small, agile team: Approximately 15 employees spanning several countries, offering a startup environment with direct impact.
  • Core values: Action, ownership, clarity, and follow-through guide internal and client-facing work.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge tech: Roles support AI, ML, blockchain, and B2B SaaS clients – employees work on real-world AI use cases and modern tech stacks.
  • Growth opportunity: Rapidly growing company (170+ hires placed, 50+ client expansions in ~3 years) with a trajectory that offers career advancement.
  • Current open roles (as of mid-2026): SDR, SEO & GEO Analyst, Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior AI Engineer – indicating a mix of go-to-market and engineering positions. jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent

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