Shopify Technical Lead

SHOPIFY PLUS TECHNICAL LEAD

Corra is the global commerce consultancy and system integrator that B2B and B2C brands trust to accelerate their growth. Working at the intersection of commerce technology and customer experience strategy, we are known for our unmatched ability to deliver comprehensive digital solutions to leading B2B and B2C retailers.

Over the last 20+ years, we have helped merchants enable and scale their commerce vision, channeling our expertise in Adobe Commerce, Adobe Experience Cloud, Shopify Plus, commercetools, and fabric alongside many other vetted technology partners and vendors.

Winner of multiple Best Places to Work awards, we offer exciting and challenging projects with industry leading companies, competitive health benefits, flexible work arrangements, ongoing career development, company outings, and many other bonuses.

Corra is looking for a Shopify Plus Technical Lead to join our team. The Technical Lead will work with our project and support teams to provide our clients with high quality development services. They will work with the team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the projects. In addition, they will maintain and enhance existing Shopify Plus ecommerce websites while adhering to best practices. Preferably an experienced ecommerce professional, the Technical Lead will have a passion for researching and learning the latest digital technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

● Work with the Corra team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the completed project
● Maintain and enhance existing Shopify Plus ecommerce websites while adhering to best
practices
● Support sales in answering RFPs and preparing and actively participating in client
presentations
● Play a significant role in the requirements gathering, working with Solution Strategists and
Delivery Managers by providing technical suggestions.
● Partake in Scrum and Sprint planning calls and provide technical input (approach,
estimate)
● Create high level technical design documentation
● Perform code review before deployment and provide technical review/ feedback to
engineers
● Contribute to Theme, App, and Extension development work streams as needed
● Have a detailed technical understanding on work happening in assigned projects
● Have technical ownership of groups of projects

REQUIREMENTS

● Shopify Plus experience required
● Expert in Shopify Liquid template language
● Expert in Shopify APIs and its usage
● REST API working knowledge
● GraphQL expertise
● Working knowledge in Custom Shopify APP development
● Experience in Shopify Theme development
● Proven knowledge with Admin API and Storefront API
● Background in Product modeling and configuration via Shopify Admin
● Understanding of Product, Discount, Inventory, Fulfillment, Order APIs and customizations
using the APIs
● Awareness of the Marketing Events, Discounts, Gift Cards and their configurations in
Shopify
● Experience with Shopify instance management and configuration
● Knowledge in data migration and synchronization between Shopify instances
● Experience with code version/ branching tools like Git/SVN
● Prior experience with product/Customer/Order import Export management
● Experience integrating with backend systems such as ERPs, WMS, OMS, etc.
● Solid knowledge of performance Improvement best practices.
● Experience architecting, building and deploying Shopify Custom Apps and
Checkout/Account Extensions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

● 5+ years of ecommerce web development experience.
● 3 or more Shopify Plus project implementation experience
● PHP Experience is nice to have
● Experience/Knowledge of steps involved in migration of an existing commerce site
running on a different platform to Shopify Platform (eg: Magento to Shopify)
● Comfortable researching and adopting new web technologies.
● Familiar with SEO / SEM best practices
● Prior experience with React / Node / NoSQL stacks is nice to have
● Prior experience with Shopify theme frameworks such as Dawn, Slate and/or Timber is
nice to have