Senior Shopify Developer
Location: Bangalore Indiranagar
Job Type: Fulltime, Permanent
Compensation: Competitive
About 99:
We're a boutique Shopify development agency that builds highconverting online stores for fastgrowing DTC retail brands. Our mission is simple: help ambitious consumer brands win online with beautiful, conversionfocused websites.
Why this role
- Ownership and influence: Take end-to-end ownership of complex Shopify builds and enhancements, from architecture decisions to production releases.
- High-impact work: Lead development for high-revenue and fast-scaling brands where performance, stability, and conversion really matter.
- Leadership growth: Mentor junior and mid-level developers, influence best practices, and help raise the overall technical bar of the team.
- Strategic exposure: Work closely with founders, product managers, and designers to shape technical direction and long-term platform decisions.
- Collaborative culture: Be part of a close-knit, high-standards team that values clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development, customisation, and maintenance of advanced Shopify themes using Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Own technical implementation of complex UI and UX requirements from Figma, ensuring consistency, performance, and scalability across devices.
- Architect and optimise storefront performance, accessibility, SEO fundamentals, and Core Web Vitals.
- Review pull requests, enforce coding standards, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code across projects.
- Collaborate closely with designers, project managers, and QA to scope work accurately and deliver reliably against timelines.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues with minimal disruption to live storefronts.
- Guide and mentor junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical feedback.
- Contribute to technical documentation, internal tooling, and process improvements.
Required Experience:
- 3+ years of hands-on Shopify development experience.
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GraphQL.
- Deep understanding of Liquid, Shopify theme architecture, and storefront performance optimisation.
- Experience with Git, pull-request workflows, and leading collaborative development efforts.
- Comfortable translating business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and a high standard for production-ready code.
- Experience mentoring or guiding other developers is a strong plus.
- Experience working on Headless Storefront is a strong plus.
