Senior Principal Engineer

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $136,000 PA - $328,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Principal Engineer at Shipt, you will be at the forefront of designing and scaling user-facing experiences across various platforms. This role requires you to lead the technical vision and architectural strategy for the Member Marketplace, evolving component libraries and design systems. You will be responsible for modern React and React Native application architecture, employing Next.js for SSR/SSG and Apollo GraphQL. Collaboration across different domains, including backend, data, and mobile platforms, will be key. Furthermore, you will contribute to performance monitoring, observability, and clean GraphQL schema design.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of frontend engineering experience in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Deep knowledge of React, React Native, and Next.js
  • Strong understanding of Apollo GraphQL
  • Experience with component libraries and design systems
  • Mastery of CSS strategies
  • Fluency in cross-platform architecture
  • Strong grasp of state management patterns
  • Expertise in building and scaling frontend CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with Web Vitals and observability tools

Job Details

Impact

Shipt is transforming the way people shop for everyday essentials — and the Member Marketplace is the front door to it all. As a Senior Principal Engineer on the Member Marketplace team, you’ll lead the charge in architecting and scaling the core user-facing experiences across desktop, mobile web, and native apps. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where you’ll shape the technical direction of the platform that millions of members interact with daily.

This is a career-defining opportunity for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence, system design, and customer-centric product thinking. You’ll set the tone for engineering excellence, champion performance and accessibility, and lead cross-functional efforts to modernize and future-proof our frontend platforms.

In this role you will own the technical vision and architectural strategy for Shipt’s Member Marketplace experience across web and mobile and be responsible for designing and evolving component libraries, design systems, and cross-platform UI foundations to support multiple teams and product surfaces. You will lead modern React and React Native application architecture, using Next.js for SSR/SSG and Apollo GraphQL for data orchestration and scale best practices for state management, routing, async data handling, lazy loading, and cross-device responsiveness. Additionally, you will collaborate across domains to solve complex problems that span backend, data, and mobile platforms, influence the frontend platform strategy through contributions to performance monitoring, observability, and alerting practices, and contribute to clean GraphQL schema design, GraphOS federation strategies, and scalable data-fetching paradigms.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

Core Technical Expertise

  • 10+ years of experience in frontend engineering with a strong foundation in JavaScript/TypeScript

  • Deep knowledge of React, React Native, and Next.js for building modern, scalable SPAs and mobile-first applications

  • Strong understanding of Apollo GraphQL and best practices around client-side schema management, caching, and federated GraphQL

  • Experience with component libraries, design systems, and tools like Storybook, Figma, and Chromatic

  • Mastery of CSS strategies: CSS-in-JS, Tailwind, SCSS, CSS Modules, or equivalent

  • Fluency in cross-platform architecture and experience with mobile-specific constraints

  • Strong grasp of state management patterns (Redux or context API)

  • Expertise in building and scaling frontend CI/CD pipelines

  • Familiarity with Web Vitals, Lighthouse, Core Web performance metrics, and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sentry)

Work Arrangement

Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections. In-office expectations will vary by role and leader.  Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.  Learn More.

Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need any accommodations. For technical interviews, Shipt uses an online coding platform. In the event you may need a reasonable accommodation to use the online coding platform, please connect with your recruiter.


Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.  Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.  Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

Pay range:

Metro Areas of Boston, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City: 

$164,000-$328,000

All other locations:

$136,000-$273,000

Please note that the salary range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

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About The Company

Hi, we’re Shipt! We’re a retail-tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Just as Shipt is an industry leader in outstanding service and care, our parent company Target is beloved across the country for their focus on bringing joy to families.Together, we've created a synergy that results in an elevated, personalized experience for all our customers, team members, and partners. Shipt reaches more than 60 million households across the U.S. To learn more about us, visit Shipt.com.

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