Shopify Senior Developer

Who we are:

GMG is a global well-being company retailing distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport everyday goods health and beauty properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years GMG is a valued partner of choice for the worlds most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East North Africa and Asia GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries. These include notable home-grown brands such as Sun & Sand Sports Dropkick Supercare Pharmacy Farm Fresh Klassic and international brands like Nike Columbia Converse Timberland Vans Mama Sitas and McCain.

Role Summary:
We are looking for a seasoned Shopify Plus Developer with a minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience to take ownership of our flagship storefront. You will be responsible for architecting developing and optimizing high-performance scalable and custom solutions on the Shopify platform. The ideal candidate is a strategic problem-solver who can translate complex business requirements into technical reality and mentor other developers on the team.

Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Development: Design develop and implement complex responsive and user-friendly Shopify based & custom themes from scratch adhering to best practices.

- Custom Application Development: Build and maintain custom Shopify apps using modern technologies ( React Ruby on Rails PHP) to extend store functionality beyond out-of-the-box features.

- Third-Party Integrations: Architect and build seamless robust integrations with critical third-party systems (like OMS WMS PIM etc).

- Performance & SEO Optimization: Coordinate with Digital marketing team for ongoing audits and implement enhancements to dramatically improve site speed core web vitals and search engine optimization (SEO).

- Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developer. Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards.

- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including UX/UI designers product managers and digital marketers to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.

- Problem Solving: Debug and resolve complex technical issues across the entire stack (front-end back-end APIs).

People Management:

The incumbent holds no direct supervisory responsibilities but is expected to engage effectively within their function and collaboratively across cross-functional teams. This role contributes meaningfully whether through operational contributions and/or by offering specialized expertise guidance and support to ensure alignment with either functional and/or strategic organizational goals and objectives.

Functional / Technical Competencies:

- Understanding of Admin portal

- Liquid template knowledge

- Theme development and maintenance

- Custom app development

- HTML5 CSS3 JS (ES6)

- Metafields Metaobjects and customer data models

- Checkout extensibility

Experience:

6 years of web development experience with at least 4 years focused exclusively on the Shopify Plus platform.