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Senior Shopify Plus Developer
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Shopify Plus Developer with strong hands-on expertise across the Shopify ecosystem. The ideal candidate should have experience building, enhancing, integrating, and optimizing Shopify and Shopify Plus stores, including custom storefronts, themes, apps, APIs, checkout, payments, third-party integrations, and headless commerce.
The candidate should be comfortable owning Shopify development end-to-end, working closely with Product, UX/UI, QA, Project Management, and backend teams, and providing technical guidance to other developers.
Key Responsibilities
Shopify & Shopify Plus Development
- Develop and maintain high-quality Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts.
- Work extensively with Shopify 2.0, Liquid, Online Store themes, sections, blocks, metafields, metaobjects, and custom templates.
- Implement complex Shopify Plus requirements and enterprise-level commerce solutions.
- Configure and customize Shopify admin, products, collections, navigation, content, discounts, shipping, taxes, and customer accounts.
- Work with Shopify Plus features including:
- Shopify Functions
- Shopify Flow
- Shopify Scripts / legacy Scripts knowledge
- Checkout extensibility
- Shopify Plus organizations and stores
- Expansion stores
- B2B capabilities
- Launchpad and automation
- Multipass / customer authentication where applicable
Theme Development
- Build custom Shopify themes from Figma/UI designs.
- Develop reusable and scalable Liquid components.
- Customize and extend existing Shopify themes.
- Work with:
- Liquid
- HTML5
- CSS3 / SCSS
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- JSON templates
- Shopify Theme APIs
- Optimize themes for performance, responsiveness, accessibility, and SEO.
- Follow Shopify theme development best practices.
Headless Shopify
- Strong experience with Shopify Headless Commerce.
- Experience with Hydrogen, Oxygen, Storefront API, GraphQL and React/Next.js is highly desirable.
- Build custom storefront experiences using Shopify APIs.
- Implement product, collection, cart, customer, checkout, search, and order-related functionality through APIs.
- Experience integrating Shopify with external CMS platforms and enterprise systems.
Shopify APIs & Integrations
- Strong understanding of:
- Shopify Admin API
- Storefront API
- GraphQL API
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Bulk Operations API
- Build and consume custom APIs and integrations.
- Integrate Shopify with:
- ERP
- OMS
- CRM
- PIM
- CMS
- Payment gateways
- Shipping/logistics platforms
- Tax platforms
- Loyalty platforms
- Marketing and analytics platforms
- Experience with middleware and custom integration architecture.
Shopify Apps & Extensions
- Develop and customize Shopify apps and app extensions.
- Experience with Shopify App Development and Shopify CLI.
- Build custom/private apps and integrations where required.
- Experience with:
- Shopify Functions
- Checkout UI Extensions
- Theme App Extensions
- Admin UI Extensions
- Customer Account Extensions
- Understand Shopify app authentication, permissions, webhooks, and API limitations.
Checkout & Payments
- Strong understanding of Shopify checkout architecture.
- Implement and customize Checkout Extensibility.
- Integrate payment gateways and payment providers.
- Experience handling:
- Payment flows
- Refunds
- Cancellations
- Failed transactions
- COD
- Partial payments
- Payment webhooks
- Experience with Shopify Plus checkout customization is preferred.
Commerce Features
Hands-on experience with most of the following:
- Product and variant management
- Collections
- Inventory management
- Multiple locations
- Discounts and promotions
- Gift cards
- Customer accounts
- B2B commerce
- Subscriptions
- Bundles
- Product recommendations
- Wishlist
- Reviews and ratings
- Search and filtering
- Cart and mini-cart
- Checkout
- Order management
- Returns and refunds
- Shipping and delivery
- Taxes
- Multi-currency
- International stores
- Markets
- Localization
- Customer segmentation
- Loyalty programs
Third-Party Integrations
Experience integrating Shopify with platforms such as:
- Algolia / Elasticsearch
- Klaviyo / marketing automation platforms
- Google Analytics / GTM
- Meta / advertising platforms
- Loyalty platforms
- Review platforms
- Shipping aggregators
- Payment gateways
- ERP/OMS/PIM systems
- CRM platforms
- CDP platforms
Experience with enterprise integrations is highly preferred.
Performance, SEO & Security
- Optimize Shopify storefront performance and Core Web Vitals.
- Identify and resolve frontend performance bottlenecks.
- Implement SEO best practices including:
- Metadata
- Structured data
- Canonical URLs
- Sitemap
- Robots.txt
- Redirects
- International SEO
- Ensure secure handling of APIs, customer information, webhooks, and integrations.
- Troubleshoot production issues and performance problems.
Development & Engineering Practices
- Follow clean, maintainable, and reusable coding practices.
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior/mid-level developers.
- Write unit/integration tests where applicable.
- Work with Git-based development workflows.
- Follow CI/CD and deployment best practices.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide root-cause analysis.
- Maintain technical documentation and integration documentation.
Required Technical Skills
Mandatory:
- 5+ years of web development experience.
- 3+ years of strong hands-on Shopify development experience.
- Strong experience with Shopify Plus.
- Expert-level knowledge of Liquid.
- Strong JavaScript knowledge.
- Strong HTML5/CSS3/SCSS knowledge.
- Strong understanding of Shopify Admin and Storefront APIs.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with Shopify themes and Shopify 2.0.
- Experience with Shopify integrations and third-party applications.
- Strong understanding of e-commerce architecture.
- Experience working with Git and modern development workflows.
Good to Have:
- React.js / Next.js
- Shopify Hydrogen
- Shopify Oxygen
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Shopify CLI
- Shopify App Development
- Shopify Functions
- Checkout Extensibility
- Shopify Flow
- Shopify B2B
- Headless commerce
- AWS/GCP/Azure
- CI/CD
- Automated testing
- Algolia or Elasticsearch
- ERP/OMS/PIM integrations
Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead Shopify development for projects from discovery through production.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Estimate development effort and identify technical dependencies.
- Review technical designs and development approaches.
- Mentor developers and establish Shopify development best practices.
- Collaborate with UI/UX, QA, PM, Product, backend, and integration teams.
- Participate in client discussions and technical presentations when required.
- Proactively identify technical risks and propose solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of e-commerce platforms and digital commerce.
- Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade Shopify/Shopify Plus implementations.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
What We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate should be more than a Shopify theme developer. We are looking for someone who understands the complete Shopify ecosystem and can independently work across:
Shopify Plus → Theme → Liquid → JavaScript → APIs → GraphQL → Apps → Checkout → Payments → Integrations → Headless → Performance → SEO → Deployment → Production Support
Experience handling enterprise Shopify Plus implementations and complex integrations will be a significant advantage.
Experience Level
Senior Developer / Shopify Technical Lead Experience: 5–8+ years overall, with strong Shopify/Shopify Plus experience. Employment Type: Full-time Work Mode: As per project/business requirements Location: India