Senior Shopify Developer (Apps + Themes + AI Workflow)

Were a German company running multiple Shopify projects (apps themes and store setups).
Were hiring a Senior Shopify Developer who can take ownership and deliver fast especially on Shopify app development while also being strong on theme work and using AI tools (Cursor etc.) as part of the daily workflow.

If youre a flexible problem-solver who ships and communicates clearly youll fit well.

Tasks

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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: 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

Benefits

• Real ownership: youll 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: youre 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

1. Links to Shopify apps you built (GitHub screenshots demo or detailed explanation)
2. Links to themes/stores you implemented
3. A short note: your strongest Shopify app project what you personally owned
4. Your timezone weekly availability
5. Rate expectation (hourly or monthly) earliest start date