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Salary: USD 3,200 - 3,200 / monthly
Lago is seeking an experienced Frontend Developer with strong React, React Router, and Shopify Hydrogen expertise to maintain and continuously improve an existing headless ecommerce storefront. This is a frontend-focused role working within an established custom codebase, collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to build polished ecommerce experiences, troubleshoot technical issues, evaluate feature feasibility, and recommend practical solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintain and improve custom Shopify Hydrogen storefronts using React and React Router
- Build responsive, accessible interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Work with Shopify's Storefront API, GraphQL, collections, products, variants, metafields, and other Shopify data
- Translate business requirements and mockups into intuitive, functional ecommerce experiences
- Evaluate proposed features for technical feasibility and recommend alternatives when API or platform limitations exist
- Troubleshoot issues across the storefront, Shopify data/APIs, browser behavior, and third-party integrations
- Work with Storyblok headless CMS and Algolia search and recommendation functionality
- Implement and troubleshoot ecommerce analytics and marketing integrations
- Support ecommerce SEO requirements including redirects, canonical tags, structured data, breadcrumbs, metadata, and indexability
- Improve frontend performance, usability, and maintainability
- Communicate technical constraints, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical team members
- Work effectively within and improve an existing custom codebase
The ideal candidate has professional experience building and maintaining Shopify Hydrogen/headless ecommerce applications and is comfortable working with Shopify APIs, GraphQL, integrations, ecommerce functionality, and frontend architecture.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of strong hands-on professional experience with Shopify Hydrogen, React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React Router
- Experience developing headless ecommerce storefronts
- 3+ years of experience with Shopify Storefront API
- Strong understanding of GraphQL
- Experience working with Shopify products, variants, collections, and metafields
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Experience working with APIs and third-party integrations
- Ability to work within and improve an existing custom codebase
- Strong UI/UX judgment and ability to translate business requirements or rough mockups into functional interfaces
- Understanding of responsive and accessible frontend development
- Ability to identify technical or usability limitations before implementation
- Ability to recommend practical alternatives when a requested approach is not technically appropriate
- Excellent English communication skills
- Able to clearly explain technical constraints and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of assigned work
Nice to have: Experience with Shopify theme architecture and customization, Storyblok or another headless CMS, Algolia in React or headless ecommerce environments, ecommerce analytics and event tracking (GA4), Klaviyo or similar marketing integrations in a headless environment, ecommerce SEO and site migrations, migrating established ecommerce sites from custom platforms to Shopify/Hydrogen, performance optimization, Git, testing, and deployment workflows.
