Full Stack Engineer, Shopify
Published on January 30, 2025
Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 80+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.
Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable commerce brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, DIMO, and more.
Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 80+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.
Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable commerce brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, DIMO, and more.
We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more!
Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!
The Role
- Engaging with clients and gaining a deep understanding of their problems, needs, goals, priorities, and technical environment with available data and architecture.
- Architecting and developing scalable, robust, and high-quality solutions.
- Producing relevant technical documentation in addition to code.
- Ensuring best practices in development, testing, monitoring, etc.
- Managing client expectations and project timelines to ensure alignment.
- Collaborating with client teams or other Lazer engineers as needed.
- Clearly communicating any tradeoffs and risks while intelligently addressing any client questions.
- Staying up-to-date with the latest tech trends and Shopify updates.
Requirements
- In-depth knowledge of core Shopify APIs
- Understanding of the different components of the Shopify ecosystem (e.g. markets, checkout extensibility, functions, analytics, mobile, testing, etc)
- Understanding of subscriptions workflows and best practices. (e.g. Recharge, Ordergroove, Upscribe, or Shopify’s Native Subscriptions API)
- Proven experience with:
- Headless frontend development (e.g. React, Hydrogen, Next.js, Remix)
- Liquid / Theme development
- Experience Data mapping and migrations from other commerce platforms onto Shopify (e.g. BigCommerce, Salesforce, Magento, WooCommerce migrations)
- Proven experience with Shopify app store development (i.e. building and launching apps privately for merchants or publicly on the Shopify App Store)
- Past experience with software engineering in different contexts:
- Strong software and system architecture experience
- Strong backend development experience (Node JS, Python, Go or Ruby preferred)
- Excellent communication ability with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in consulting or contracting contexts.
Nice to Have
The following would be bonus experience to have, though highlight any additional experience or skills you may have. We like working with people with varied backgrounds and experiences.
- Familiarity with ERP integrations (e.g. Netsuite), including familiarity with iPaaS solutions for such integrations
- Experience creating CMS integrations (e.g. Sanity, Contentful, etc)
- Experience managing OMS/WMS/IMS integrations (e.g. Manhattan)
- Experience with development in mobile or AI.
- Familiarity with UI/UX design and branding workflows and best practices.
- Experience working in or supporting sales-related engineering activity.
- Relevant industry certifications or publications.
Perks
- 🏠 The flexibility to work from anywhere. Choose where you work from as long as it has strong wifi :)
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO. Everyone needs a break. 15 days is the minimum number of days you should take off but there is always more.
- 📖 Annual Retreat. Every year, we all meet in one location and spend a week together off work. Last year we went to the Dominican Republic with our plus one’s and past destinations include Cancun, Hawaii and more.