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.
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, serverless 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.
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We’re Polaroid: the original home of analog instant photography. Over our 82-year journey we’ve been called everything: The Impossible Project, Polaroid Originals, and now Polaroid; the brand where it all began. We create beautiful tools to bring people together in human and meaningful ways. In a world that’s more disconnected than ever, there’s never been a better time to appreciate what’s in front of you. We create beautiful, life-enriching tools to ground you in the here and now. We exist to help you see everyday moments, to pause them, and to relive them in something you can hold in your hand and turn to forever. Join us.
