Freelance Shopify Developer

Job description

# Freelance Shopify Developer ## Engagement Details - **Contract type:** Freelance / B2B contract, ongoing on a rolling monthly basis - **Time commitment:** 5–7 hours per week, spread across the week (not batched into one day) - **Time zone:** Asia, Europe ## About the Role We're hiring a **Freelance Shopify Developer** to support one of our clients — a global consumer electronics brand and category leader, selling direct-to-consumer on Shopify. The store spans over 10,000 pages with product SKUs in the hundreds, across multiple regional storefronts. **This is not a build-from-scratch project.** The brand already runs on an established design system and theme. What's needed is someone who can **execute inside that existing, mature Shopify environment** — publishing content, maintaining pages, fixing technical SEO issues, and occasionally extending functionality through custom apps or scripts — **accurately, on schedule, and without needing to be chased**. The work is steady and recurring: several blog posts and landing pages every week, ongoing technical SEO hygiene, and ad hoc theme or app work when something can't be solved through existing templates. **Strong daily communication and reliable self-QA matter as much as the technical skill itself.** ## What You'll Be Doing - **Publishing 4–5 blog posts per week** from supplied content, built exactly to spec (structure, images, alt text, internal links, FAQ blocks, tables), with meta titles, descriptions, and URL slugs set as provided. - Building and updating collection and landing pages using existing sections and templates, replicating across regional storefronts where needed. - Working through a **recurring technical SEO list**: broken links, redirect chains, canonical tags, structured data, indexation controls, sitemap and hreflang issues, and Core Web Vitals improvements. - Liquid, JSON template, and metafield work inside the existing theme, including **building or modifying a custom Shopify app or script** when a task calls for it. - **Self-QA on everything before it goes live**, with a daily written update on progress and blockers. ## Must-Have - **5+ years of hands-on Shopify development experience** - **A genuine Shopify specialist** — this role isn't a fit for developers positioned as generalists across multiple platforms (e.g. WordPress + Shopify + Webflow) - **Demonstrated ability to build or modify Shopify apps and scripts**, not just edit themes - **Strong written and spoken English** — you'll be in daily written contact with the team - Available for a short daily check-in and **same-day replies** during working hours - Highly organized — able to **hold a fixed weekly publishing cadence without reminders** ## Nice-to-Have - **Hands-on technical SEO experience** as a developer — understanding why a redirect, canonical, or schema change matters, not just how to implement it - Experience working with an agency or an in-house SEO/marketing team, **taking briefs and shipping to spec** - Experience with multi-region or multi-storefront Shopify setups - Comfortable with **bulk operations** — CSV imports, Shopify Admin API, Matrixify or similar tools - Familiar with GSC, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, or Semrush outputs as a source of work - Experience on **large-scale Shopify stores** (thousands of pages, hundreds of SKUs)