Technical Lead, Studio

Domaine Studio is looking for a Technical Lead to own the delivery, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of Shopify websites. This client-facing role requires working closely with partners to understand their goals, provide technical guidance, and deliver practical estimates.

You will lead the engineering team through all phases of implementation, including frontend architecture, code review, integrations, and releases. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Shopify, particularly out-of-the-box capabilities, and can help clients achieve their goals efficiently by focusing on solutions that deliver impact without added complexity.

You will also provide design feedback to ensure projects stay within scope based on the capabilities of the codebase, whether leveraging a new Shopify Theme framework or working with legacy systems. This role includes leading discovery workshops, educating clients on Shopify best practices, and recommending scalable, future-ready solutions. You will collaborate across departments and with technology partners to ensure high-quality, efficient, and impactful outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Shopify Theme Leadership

• 3-5 years of experience working in eCommerce. Good understanding of user behaviors and marketing/CRO sciences.
• Lead development and maintenance of traditional Shopify themes, including legacy and hybrid codebases
• Own technical direction for storefront implementations and ongoing enhancements
• Own writing technical documentation and presenting to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ensure themes are stable, performant, and merchant-friendly
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing flexibility, complexity, and budget
• Able to productively manage commitments to multiple projects

Legacy Codebase Support

• Audit, debug, and refactor existing Shopify themes
• Identify and mitigate technical debt without introducing regressions
• Safely extend legacy patterns while introducing modern best practices where appropriate
• Support long-running storefronts with high business impact

Technical Oversight & Quality

• Establish and enforce coding standards for Liquid, CSS, and JavaScript
• Review pull requests with attention to performance, maintainability, and Shopify constraints
• Prevent over-engineering and unnecessary JavaScript complexity
• Ensure clean separation of templates, sections, snippets, and assets
• Able to catch issues within acceptance criteria, edge cases, and other potential issues.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work with clients to understand their business requirements, use cases, and product roadmap to make informed decisions.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to translate requirements into realistic Shopify solutions
• Communicate Shopify platform limitations early to avoid scope and estimation issues
• Provide accurate estimates for theme work and maintenance tasks
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers in Shopify-specific best practices while remaining hands-on when needed.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Web Fundamentals
• HTML
• • Semantic, accessible HTML
  • Document structure
  • Metadata
  • Common HTML APIs
• CSS
• • Responsive design best practices
  • Media queries
  • Layout with flexbox and grid
  • Pseudo-elements and classes
  • Relative units (e.g. em, rem, vw, ch, etc.)
  • Modern CSS patterns and features (e.g., CSS variables, Web Animations API, Popover API)
• Liquid
• • Expert understanding of the liquid templating language, and key concepts including theme architecture, layout, templates, sections, and blocks.
  • Familiar with the most commonly used objects, filters, and tags
  • Experience building with metafields and metaobjects
  • Deep understanding of localization and internationalization best practices
  • Experience using various AJAX APIs, including the Product Recommendations API, Predictive Search API, Cart API, and Section Rendering API
  • Experience using the Storefront and Admin APIs
• Vanilla JavaScript (ES6+)
• • Expert understanding of Server Side, Client Side, and Static rendering architectures
  • DOM manipulation and event handling
  • Debugging and maintaining legacy JavaScript patterns
  • Shopify Theme JavaScript APIs
  • Experience with native web components

Performance, Accessibility & SEO

• Experience identifying and debugging web performance issues with deep understanding of the following topics:
• • Optimizing resource loading
  • Image and video performance
  • Optimizing web fonts
  • Code-splitting
  • Prefetching and Pre-rendering techniques
• Accessibility & WCAG fundamentals
• • Media accessibility
  • Labels and text alternatives
  • Focus management
  • Accessible tap targets
• SEO best practices
• • Rich results
  • Structured data markup
  • Localization
  • Canonical URLs

Tooling & Workflow

• JIRA/Confluence
• Figma
• Git & GitHub (code reviews, branching strategies)
• Shopify CLI

Bonus / Nice-to-Have

• Experience migrating legacy themes to Online Store 2.0+
• Experience migrating brands to the Shopify platform
• Familiarity with Shopify Plus features and limitations
• Understanding of common third-party Shopify apps and integrations (incl. OMS/ERP apps, ESP apps, subscription apps, bundle apps, etc.)
• Tailwind, GraphQL, REST, Node.js, React, Typescript
• Shopify Functions & Checkout Extensions

PERKS & BENEFITS

• Flexible working schedule
• Remote-first culture
• Continued education and personal development opportunities

*We are an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.