Shopify Lead / Shopify Technical Lead

Position: Shopify Lead / Shopify Technical Lead

Location: San Ramon, CA (onsite)

Client: Alo Yoga

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Shopify Lead to drive the development, customization, integration, and ongoing enhancement of Shopify-based e-commerce platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Shopify store customization, custom app development, front-end technologies, webhook implementation, and third-party system integrations.

The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, product teams, architects, and external technology partners to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing e-commerce solutions. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, hands-on development, integration expertise, and the ability to guide development best practices.

Experience working with enterprise e-commerce environments and integrating Shopify with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Order Management Systems (OMS), Retail Management Systems (RMS), ERP, and other third-party platforms is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

1. Shopify Store Customization

• Lead the customization and enhancement of Shopify storefronts to meet business and customer experience requirements.
• Develop and maintain Shopify themes using Liquid, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and related front-end technologies.
• Customize Shopify theme files, including templates, sections, snippets, layouts, and configuration files.
• Work with Shopify Online Store 2.0 features, including sections, blocks, dynamic sources, metafields, metaobjects, and theme editor configurations.
• Develop reusable storefront components and implement responsive, accessible, and cross-browser-compatible user interfaces.
• Support multi-store, multi-country, multi-currency, and multi-language/localization requirements.
• Optimize storefront performance, usability, accessibility, and SEO.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers, business teams, and product owners to translate requirements into technical solutions.

2. Custom Shopify App Development

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain custom Shopify applications to support business-specific requirements.
• Build public apps and custom apps where applicable, using Shopify APIs, webhooks, and supported authentication mechanisms.
• Develop server-side applications using technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, Remix, or other suitable frameworks.
• Integrate Shopify functionality with external applications, services, and enterprise platforms.
• Work with Shopify Admin API, GraphQL Admin API, Storefront API, and relevant REST APIs where supported.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, access scopes, token management, and API rate-limit handling.
• Design scalable application architectures that support high transaction volumes and peak shopping periods, including Black Friday and other promotional events.
• Implement robust error handling, logging, monitoring, retry mechanisms, and data validation.
• Follow development best practices for source control, testing, code reviews, deployment, and maintenance.

3. Front-End Development: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Develop and maintain responsive storefront components using HTML5, modern CSS, and JavaScript.
• Apply modern CSS techniques, including Flexbox, CSS Grid, custom properties, and responsive design principles.
• Use vanilla JavaScript and suitable lightweight libraries to implement dynamic storefront functionality.
• Customize Shopify themes and components while maintaining compatibility with Shopify's storefront architecture.
• Use modern development tools and workflows, such as Git, GitHub/GitLab, Vite, and appropriate CSS tooling.
• Troubleshoot cross-browser, mobile responsiveness, performance, and rendering issues.
• Follow coding standards and ensure maintainable, reusable, and well-documented code.

4. Shopify Webhooks and Event-Driven Integrations

• Configure, implement, and maintain Shopify webhooks for relevant business events, including orders, products, inventory, customers, and fulfillment.
• Design reliable event-driven integrations between Shopify and downstream enterprise systems.
• Validate webhook signatures and securely process incoming webhook requests.
• Handle failed webhook deliveries, retries, duplicate events, and idempotent processing to maintain data integrity.
• Implement asynchronous processing and queue-based workflows where appropriate.
• Monitor webhook delivery failures, processing delays, and integration health.
• Ensure reliable data synchronization and implement reconciliation processes when required.

5. Third-Party System Integrations

• Design, develop, and maintain integrations between Shopify and enterprise systems, including:
• Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• Order Management Systems (OMS)
• Retail Management Systems (RMS)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• Payment, shipping, tax, and fulfillment platforms
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other business applications
• Implement integrations using Shopify APIs, webhooks, middleware, integration platforms, and third-party connectors.
• Evaluate and configure Shopify apps or integration connectors when appropriate.
• Build custom integration services when standard connectors do not meet business requirements.
• Manage data synchronization for orders, inventory, products, customers, pricing, fulfillment, and returns.
• Troubleshoot API errors, data mismatches, synchronization failures, and performance issues.
• Collaborate with vendors and enterprise application teams to ensure reliable end-to-end integration flows.

6. Technical Leadership and Delivery

• Own technical design and implementation for Shopify development initiatives.
• Translate functional and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, development standards, and mentoring to developers.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, architects, QA, DevOps, and integration partners.
• Support solution design, estimation, sprint planning, testing, deployment, and production releases.
• Establish standards for code quality, security, performance, monitoring, and maintainability.
• Identify technical risks, resolve complex production issues, and recommend continuous improvements.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Shopify development and customization.
• Expertise in Shopify Liquid, theme architecture, templates, sections, snippets, and theme editor customization.
• Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, modern JavaScript, and responsive front-end development.
• Experience building and maintaining custom Shopify applications.
• Experience with Shopify Admin API, GraphQL, webhooks, and API integrations.
• Knowledge of webhook security, failure handling, retries, duplicate events, and idempotency.
• Experience integrating Shopify with WMS, OMS, RMS, ERP, or other enterprise systems.
• Experience with Git-based version control and modern development workflows.
• Understanding of application scalability, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and work independently in a hands-on development role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Shopify Plus and enterprise-scale e-commerce implementations.
• Experience with Shopify Online Store 2.0, metafields, metaobjects, reusable sections, and blocks.
• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Remix, or other suitable frameworks for Shopify app development.
• Experience with middleware, iPaaS solutions, message queues, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience supporting high-volume e-commerce events and peak-season traffic.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, application monitoring, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting multi-store, multi-region, multi-currency, and localized storefronts.
• Strong analytical, communication, troubleshooting, and stakeholder-management skills.