Mid-Level Shopify Developer

Summary

Text Connects is seeking a Mid-Level Shopify Developer to maintain and improve Shopify stores and build reliable storefront, app, and integration solutions. The role involves translating requirements into performant shopping experiences, troubleshooting issues, managing deployments, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Shopify themes, including templates, sections, and responsive storefront features
• Translate designs and requirements into accessible, performant shopping experiences
• Evaluate, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot third-party Shopify apps
• Develop and maintain custom Shopify apps and integrations with external systems
• Work with Shopify APIs, webhooks, metafields, and metaobjects
• Diagnose issues across themes, apps, integrations, and store configuration
• Assess how app installations and theme changes affect performance, compatibility, and the customer experience
• Test changes before release, manage deployments, and document your work
• Collaborate with designers, project managers, and other developers to estimate work and deliver projects

Skills

• Approximately 2–4 years of professional development experience, including hands-on Shopify work
• Strong skills in Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Shopify Online Store 2.0 themes, reusable sections, and the theme editor
• Practical experience developing or maintaining Shopify apps, beyond installing and configuring them
• Experience with a backend language or framework and working with APIs, authentication, webhooks, and data storage
• An understanding of Shopify's core concepts, including products, variants, collections, customers, orders, and discounts
• Good judgment about the capabilities, limitations, costs, and maintenance requirements of third-party apps
• Familiarity with Git, code review, debugging, and testing
• Clear communication and the ability to explain technical decisions to nontechnical teammates
• The ability to take a task from requirements through implementation, testing, and release
• The ability to read documentation and make logical leaps between requirements and implementation
• Experience with Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, or checkout extensions
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
• Experience integrating Shopify with fulfillment, inventory, subscription, or marketing platforms
• Experience improving storefront accessibility, SEO, and Core Web Vitals
• Agency experience or experience supporting multiple Shopify stores

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Approximately 2–4 years of professional development experience, including hands-on Shopify work
• Strong skills in Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Shopify Online Store 2.0 themes, reusable sections, and the theme editor
• Practical experience developing or maintaining Shopify apps, beyond installing and configuring them
• Experience with a backend language or framework and working with APIs, authentication, webhooks, and data storage
• An understanding of Shopify's core concepts, including products, variants, collections, customers, orders, and discounts
• Good judgment about the capabilities, limitations, costs, and maintenance requirements of third-party apps
• Familiarity with Git, code review, debugging, and testing
• Clear communication and the ability to explain technical decisions to nontechnical teammates
• The ability to take a task from requirements through implementation, testing, and release
• The ability to read documentation and make logical leaps between requirements and implementation

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, or checkout extensions
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
• Experience integrating Shopify with fulfillment, inventory, subscription, or marketing platforms
• Experience improving storefront accessibility, SEO, and Core Web Vitals
• Agency experience or experience supporting multiple Shopify stores