Senior Frontend Engineer, Professional Services

Shopify Inc.; United States; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopify Inc. is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer for Professional Services to design and deliver native Shopify Plus storefronts for high‑volume brands.

You’ll lead technical discovery, implement solutions, and ensure scalable, robust experiences across themes, checkout, and extensions. You’ll collaborate with Solution Engineering, Customer Success, Engineering and Product on billable engagements, shaping scope, expectations, and outcomes while advancing merchant performance and developer

Qualifications

• Hands-on Shopify Plus development for high‑volume or enterprise merchants.
• Deep expertise in Shopify Themes and Liquid, including Online Store 2.0 architecture, content schemas, and theme settings.
• Hands-on experience across Shopify's Plus extensibility surfaces — Checkout UI Extensions, Theme App Extensions, Functions, App Bridge.
• Experience with Plus-specific complexity: expansion stores, Shopify Markets and multi-region setups, B2B, and custom app development.
• Strong GraphQL and REST proficiency across the Admin and Storefront APIs, with webhooks and rate-limit-aware patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship native Shopify Plus storefronts — leading technical discovery, solution design, and hands-on implementation across themes, checkout, and app/extension surfaces.
• Own migrations for merchants coming from legacy platforms: assess the existing architecture, define the target state on Plus, and sequence the work so nothing breaks in flight.
• Work at Plus scale — expansion stores, multi-market and multi-currency setups, B2B alongside DTC, high-traffic launches, and the operational surfaces Plus merchants actually run on (Flow, custom apps, Launchpad).
• Set the performance bar. Define frontend standards (Core Web Vitals, rendering strategy, asset discipline) and coach merchant and partner teams to hit them.
• Make the hard build calls and explain them — Liquid vs. Hydrogen/Oxygen, native vs. app, Checkout Extensibility patterns, and content modeling with metafields and metaobjects.
• Scale your impact beyond the engagement by building reusable reference implementations, accelerators, and internal tooling — Theme App Extensions, Checkout UI Extensions, Functions — so the next team starts further ahead.
• Work across the org with Solution and Enterprise Architects, Merchant Success, Product, and Engineering to unblock complexity, surface risk early, and feed what you learn back into the product roadmap.
• Communicate with range — deep technical detail with engineers, clear recommendations and tradeoffs with executive stakeholders

Skills

Frontend engineering

Shopify Plus

GraphQL

REST APIs

TypeScript

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Shopify Themes & Liquid

Checkout UI Extensions

Theme App Extensions

Functions

App Bridge

Shopify CLI

Git workflows

ESLint/TypeScript

AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)

Job description

Senior Frontend Engineer, Professional Services

About the role

At Shopify, we're making commerce better for everyone — from independent entrepreneurs to global brands. We provide the scalability, reliability, and flexibility merchants need to build, grow, and evolve their businesses. Shopify powers commerce for brands like Allbirds, Gymshark, and Staples.

Our Professional Services team works with those brands directly, on paid engagements, to architect and deliver native Shopify experiences that move real numbers: conversion, performance, and developer velocity.

This is where Frontend Engineers come in. Some of our merchants are migrating to Shopify Plus from legacy enterprise platforms — untangling years of custom logic, integrations, and multi‑market complexity. Others are already on Plus and need their storefront rebuilt to perform at a different scale. You'll build for both.

A typical engagement might mean replatforming a global brand across a dozen markets without losing a point of conversion, migrating a merchant off legacy Scripts onto Checkout Extensibility ahead of peak season, or standing up a B2B storefront alongside an existing DTC build. You'll work alongside Solution Engineering, Customer Success, Engineering and Product — and because these are billable engagements, you'll help scope the work, set expectations, and own the outcome.

Engagements ranging from short technical spikes to 6 month builds

A genuinely hands‑on role — you'll be writing code, not just reviewing other people's

A fast-moving environment where requirements shift and ambiguity is normal

Autonomy to solve complex problems creatively, with mentorship and room to grow from each engagement

Direct influence on merchant outcomes and on Shopify's roadmap

Key Responsibilities

Build and ship native Shopify Plus storefronts — leading technical discovery, solution design, and hands‑on implementation across themes, checkout, and app/extension surfaces

Own migrations for merchants coming from legacy platforms: assess the existing architecture, define the target state on Plus, and sequence the work so nothing breaks in flight

Work at Plus scale — expansion stores, multi‑market and multi‑currency setups, B2B alongside DTC, high‑traffic launches, and the operational surfaces Plus merchants actually run on (Flow, custom apps, Launchpad)

Set the performance bar. Define frontend standards (Core Web Vitals, rendering strategy, asset discipline) and coach merchant and partner teams to hit them

Make the hard build calls and explain them — Liquid vs. Hydrogen/Oxygen, native vs. app, Checkout Extensibility patterns, and content modeling with metafields and metaobjects

Scale your impact beyond the engagement by building reusable reference implementations, accelerators, and internal tooling — Theme App Extensions, Checkout UI Extensions, Functions — so the next team starts further ahead

Work across the org with Solution and Enterprise Architects, Merchant Success, Product, and Engineering to unblock complexity, surface risk early, and feed what you learn back into the product roadmap

Communicate with range — deep technical detail with engineers, clear recommendations and tradeoffs with executive stakeholders

Qualifications

Significant hands‑on Shopify Plus development experience, shipping production work for high‑volume or enterprise merchants

Deep expertise in Shopify Themes and Liquid, including Online Store 2.0 architecture, content schemas, and theme settings

Hands‑on experience across Shopify's Plus extensibility surfaces — Checkout UI Extensions, Theme App Extensions, Functions, App Bridge — including migration patterns off legacy Scripts

Experience with Plus‑specific complexity: expansion stores, Shopify Markets and multi‑region setups, B2B, and custom app development

Strong GraphQL and REST proficiency across the Admin and Storefront APIs, with webhooks and rate‑limit‑aware patterns

Content modeling with metafields and metaobjects

Fluency with Shopify CLI, Git‑based workflows, and automated checks (Theme Check, ESLint/TypeScript)

Demonstrated use of AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) to ship production code and build internal tooling that speeds up delivery

Excellent communication with both engineering and executive audiences, and a track record of turning ambiguous merchant goals into clear builds with measurable outcomes

Nice to have

Hydrogen/Oxygen experience, with a clear point of view on when headless is actually the right call

Experience replatforming merchants onto Plus from Magento/Adobe, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, or similar

Subscriptions and Bundles implementations on Plus

Agency, consultancy, or SI background delivering for enterprise merchants

Familiarity with ERP/OMS/PIM integrations via Admin APIs and webhooks

Public thought leadership — talks, writing, podcasts

We're interested in what you can do. If you’re excited about this role, please apply even if your experience doesn't line up perfectly.

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

This is life‑defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion
• Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital‑first for your daily work

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