Senior Shopify Developer – Apps, Themes, AI Workflow

Role Overview

• Shopify App Development (main focus): Build and maintain Shopify apps (embedded admin apps + backend services)
• Work with Shopify Admin GraphQL, webhooks, app proxy, metafields/metaobjects
• Implement auth, data sync, background jobs, and integrations (APIs, SFTP, PDFs, etc.)
• Debug production issues end-to-end and ship fixes with clean PRs
• Shopify Theme Development: Implement and extend themes (Liquid, sections/blocks, JSON templates, Dawn patterns)
• Build storefront features with JavaScript (cart behavior, UI logic, performance)
• Integrate app outputs into storefront (theme app extensions, scripts, blocks)
• Basic Store Setup & Operations: Set up Shopify stores: products/collections, markets, shipping/taxes, payments, emails
• Configure apps, theme structure, navigation, key pages, and basic QA
• Document setup steps so others can repeat them
• AI-Assisted Development (daily): Use Cursor (and similar tools) to speed up delivery
• Write prompts, review AI output, and turn it into production-quality code
• Use AI for debugging and testing — without lowering code quality

Requirements

• Senior Shopify app development experience (real projects, not “installed apps”)
• Comfortable with: Node.js, Shopify CLI, Admin GraphQL, webhooks
• Bonus: Remix/React + Polaris, Prisma/SQLite
• Strong Shopify theme development Liquid, sections/blocks, JSON templates, JS storefront work
• Strong AI workflow
• Can develop efficiently with Cursor (or similar), and still keep quality high
• You know how to verify, test, and not ship AI-generated nonsense
• Can set up basic Shopify stores
• Confident in the fundamentals (settings, markets, shipping/taxes, payments, emails)
• Self-managed + disciplined: You communicate daily, unblock yourself, and finish tasks without being pushed
• Git/PR workflow + clean handovers
• Nice-to-have Shopify Functions (Cart Transform), Checkout Extensibility, VPS basics (Linux/SSH, logs, PM2, Caddy/Nginx), Performance and accessibility mindset
• Experience shipping apps to multiple stores / environments

Tech Stack

• GraphQL
• JavaScript
• Linux
• NGINX
• Node.js
• React
• SQLite

Benefits

• Real ownership : you’ll run workstreams end-to-end
• Long-term pipeline : steady Shopify work across apps + stores + themes
• Fast decisions : no bureaucracy, no pointless meetings
• Modern stack : real-world app work (webhooks, app proxy, DB, deployments)
• AI-first workflow : you’re expected to use Cursor to move fast
• Growth path : evolve into Tech Lead and later lead other devs if you want
• Good salary : competitive salary based on experience