Shopify Headless Frontend Engineer

Yoh Services LLC; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 77,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Health Savings Account

Life & Disability Insurance

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Referral Bonuses

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh Services LLC is seeking an experienced Shopify Headless Developer in Birmingham to build scalable storefronts using Next.js and React, connected to Shopify as the backend engine. You will implement API-driven, headless commerce architectures with focus on performance and reliability.

Responsibilities include integrating Admin/Storefront APIs, working with GraphQL, and leveraging metafields to power dynamic content.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of ecommerce development experience with strong hands-on experience building solutions on Shopify Plus.
• Strong experience building frontend applications using Next.js, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience working with Shopify APIs including Admin API, Storefront API, Customer Account API, GraphQL, Webhooks, and custom integrations.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain headless ecommerce storefronts using Next.js, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Develop custom commerce experiences across product discovery, product detail pages, cart, checkout, customer accounts, and post-purchase experiences.
• Integrate Shopify with frontend applications using Admin API, Storefront API, Customer Account API, GraphQL, Webhooks, and modern API-driven architecture patterns.
• Model and consume structured commerce content using Shopify metaobjects and metafields to power dynamic merchandising, content blocks, and product data in the storefront.
• Build scalable integrations connecting Shopify with enterprise systems including payments, fulfillment, inventory, pricing, OMS, CRM, and product information platforms.
• Develop custom commerce functionality using Shopify Functions, Checkout UI Extensions, and modern Shopify extensibility frameworks.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Optimize site performance, API performance, Core Web Vitals, mobile experiences, and overall storefront speed.
• Support automated testing including unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage using Playwright or equivalent, alongside deployments, troubleshooting, production support, and continuous platform improvements.
• Use AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent) as part of day-to-day engineering workflow to accelerate delivery, testing, and documentation.
• Stay current on emerging Shopify capabilities, headless commerce trends, and modern development best practices.

Skills

Next.js

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

Shopify Plus

Shopify Frontend

Tools

Shopify Admin API

Shopify Storefront API

GraphQL

Webhooks

Metafields

Metaobjects

Job description

Yoh Services LLC is seeking an experienced Shopify Headless Developer in Birmingham to build scalable storefronts using Next.js and React, connected to Shopify as the backend engine. You will implement API-driven, headless commerce architectures with focus on performance and reliability.

Responsibilities include integrating Admin/Storefront APIs, working with GraphQL, and leveraging metafields to power dynamic content.