Lead Shopify Developer

🔗 Website: www.uncommonagency.co

📍 Location: Remote

UN/COMMON is a digital experience and marketing agency that launches and grows the world’s best, emerging brands. We believe the future of consumer-facing brands starts with creating authentic stories built for the consumer first and brand second. We are extremely proud to work with revolutionary brands such as Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty, Beauty Blender, Liquid Death, Lemon Perfect, and more.

We are an employee and customer-centric agency bringing mission first brand stories to life to benefit the greater good and better people’s lives. And we have a TON of fun doing it!

Summary ✏️

You’re an expert technologist who can oversee a team of developers and bring beautiful and accessible experiences to life through end-to-end technical solutions. You enjoy collaborating with project managers, strategists, and designers to translate ideas into successful ecommerce experiences. You are comfortable with back-end API integrations, architecting builds, and maintaining best practices for development across projects. You like working with emerging disruptive brands and can clearly communicate solutions to clients.

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

• Lead a team of developers to execute building features on top of Shopify Plus / BigCommerce
• Senior-level backend or frontend technical skillsets.
• Set development department and individual annual & quarterly OKRs
• Schedule regular check-ins and 1:1s with development team members
• The ability to manage workload, meet deadlines and speak up when needed.
• Set the bar for ecommerce experience engineering and mentor your team to grow
• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure project success
• Lead technical discoveries and communicate solutions with clients and team
• A team-first mentality. Speak up when you need help and help those in need.
• Translate technical requirements and design mockups into best-in-class experiences
• Implement new technologies or development techniques that help meet client goals
• Maintain reusable code and documentation for future use, optimization, and scalability

Requirements

What do I need? 🤓

• 5+ years of ecommerce agency experience
• 4+ years of Shopify Plus ecosystem experience: Liquid, theme customization, and data model (additional platform experience a plus)
• 4+ years of web-based software architecture experience with integrating third-party APIs (+ handling throttle limits), building out Jamstack frontends, creating Shopify themes from the ground up, contributing to open source packages.
• Senior-level frontend technical skillsets with 2+ years of experience leading and mentoring development team members
• Passion for leading-edge technology and a drive toward researching and implementing new best practices
• Experience scoping complex technical solutions, troubleshooting cross-browser/platform issues, and delivering accessible products
• A solid portfolio of quality, comprehensive builds
• Proficient with current development tooling, processes, and standards (Git, SCSS, TailwindCSS, Webpack/Vite, Figma)
• 4+ years of web-based software architecture experience with integrating third-party APIs (+ handling throttle limits), building out Jamstack frontends, creating Shopify themes from the ground up, contributing to open source packages.
• Knowledge of modern frameworks and coding paradigms. For the Frontend, we typically work with Liquid, React and Vuejs.
• Bonus if you’ve worked on Headless frameworks
• Experience using version control systems, preferably Git
• Collaboration, time management, problem-solving, and teamwork

Benefits

Perks 😍

• Fully remote
• 23 PTO days
• 10 Company Holidays
• Half-day Fridays - Year Round!
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (we contribute 80% to employee premiums)
• 12 weeks 100% paid parental leave
• 401K with a 4% match

Equal Employment Opportunity 🤝

We are an equal opportunity employer and foster an inclusive environment. We welcome people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to apply to our positions. This is something we're serious about—we are constantly striving to listen better and be better.