The Senior Shopify Developer will create apps and storefront improvements, emphasizing performance and accessibility, while collaborating with a cross-functional team.
We’re growing our Shopify delivery team and looking for exceptional developers to help us deliver world-class ecommerce experiences for ambitious brands.What we're looking for
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.
What you’ll do- 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).
Top Skills
AWS
CSS
Git
Git
JavaScript
Liquid
Npm
React
Scss
Shopify Apis
Shopify Plus
Webpack
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