Senior Shopify Developer

Our ideal candidate is a Senior Shopify Developer with strong JavaScript skills and hands-on Shopify Plus experience who excels at taking clear tech requirements and turning them into reliable, production-ready code. You care about performance, accessibility, and maintainability, and you’re comfortable working within established patterns and guardrails.

As a Senior Shopify Developer, you will build apps, checkout extensions, and storefront improvements for complex ecommerce projects. You’ll work closely with a Tech Lead who defines approach and acceptance criteria; your focus is execution quality—writing clean code, communicating progress clearly, and raising risks early with practical options.

• Write clean and semantic code, emphasizing performance, usability, and accessibility.
• Implement features from Tech Requirements and scoped tickets using approved patterns and templates.
• Build and enhance Shopify Functions, Checkout UI Extensions, and storefront features (Liquid/JavaScript/React as needed).
• Provide targeted feedback on Tech Requirements; ask clarifying questions to close gaps.
• Surface technical risks and unknowns early; propose simpler alternatives when appropriate.
• Identify and develop reusable patterns with component-based code that is clearly documented.
• Present work and solutions to clients as needed, explaining technical choices in plain language.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including developers, designers, strategists, and project managers.
• Stay up to date and make recommendations regarding new web development technologies.
• Work in agile sprints and participate in daily project stand-ups (via Zoom).

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• 5–8+ years professional web development experience.
• 3+ years of Shopify Plus development experience and latest related technologies:
  • Shopify APIs (e.g. Ajax, GraphQL, Section Rendering APIs)
  • Liquid templating
• 3+ years of experience with modern development practices
  • Modern JavaScript (ES6, Web components, etc.)
  • Modern CSS (CSS Grid, CSS Variables, etc.) 
• Agency experience.
• 1+ years applying accessibility and performance best practices.
• 1+ years integrating and working with third-party APIs and Shopify Apps.
• 1+ years participating in agile sprints and daily stand-ups.
• Hands-on experience with Checkout Extensibility and Shopify Functions.
• Experience developing with Shopify CLI.
• Proficiency in version control and collaborative development using Git (GitHub).

SOFT SKILLS

• Able to translate clear Tech Requirements into reliable code and communicate blockers early.
• Comfortable presenting work and explaining trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Confident negotiating practical compromises between requirements, budget, user experience, and best practices.
• Open to collaboration with Design, Strategy, and Project Management.
• Interested in sharing knowledge and contributing ideas that improve outcomes for clients and the team.

PERKS & BENEFITS

• Competitive health benefits plan
• Progressive parental leave policy
• Remote work environment
• Monthly remote work allowance
• Professional development allowance
• Career and professional growth planning
• Bi-annual goal setting and bi-weekly 1:1s
• MacBook (and related peripherals) for business use
• Minimum fifteen (15) days vacation
• Additional bonus agency-wide holidays
• Reduced summer hours schedule

OUR PRIMARY TOOL STACK

• VS Code (or preferred IDE)
• Webpack
• SCSS
• NPM
• AWS (e.g. serverless backend via NodeJS on AWS Lambda)
• GitHub and GitHub Actions
• LambdaTest
• Slack
• Asana
• Figma
• Zoom
• Harvest Time Tracking

Please include in your cover letter specific references to your Shopify Plus experience. And in one sentence, name a Shopify Function or Checkout UI Extension you shipped in the last 12 months and your role (primary builder or co-builder).