ButcherBox - Technical Lead, Web Development (Shopify / Liquid, Recharge)
Requirements
• 7+ years of web development experience, with substantial time in Shopify/Liquid. • Experience with Recharge or other large key Shopify partners • Demonstrated technical leadership on a team: you've owned architecture, set standards, reviewed others' code, and raised the level of the developers around you, even if the title never said "lead." • Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals, with a working command of the broader Shopify ecosystem: theme architecture, apps, metafields and metaobjects, Liquid edge cases, and where the platform's limits are. • A pragmatic, maintainable approach: you extend the theme and its conventions rather than over-engineering or rebuilding from scratch, and you can tell the difference between technical debt worth paying down and technical debt worth living with. • Experience working with and directing external agency partners, and comfort holding a quality bar with people who don't report to you. • Clear communication with non-engineers: you can explain a tradeoff to a PM or a designer in terms of what it costs and what it buys, and you're a credible partner in shaping product direction. • Collaborative and comfortable in an agile cadence, shipping through a PR review process in cross-functional squads. • Understanding of broader Shopify ecosystem like app proxies, applications, checkout extensions, webhooks and similar advanced features. • Subscription or DTC e-commerce experience, particularly with Recharge or a comparable subscription platform. • Depth in web performance and accessibility best practices: Core Web Vitals, WCAG, and the practical work of holding those standards in a theme that's actively changing. • Experience with A/B testing and experimentation tooling (e.g., Optimizely) and the technical patterns that keep experiments from degrading the codebase. • Strong understanding of data collection, analytics, and event tracking within an e-commerce site. • Experience with Shopify Plus capabilities: Functions, checkout extensibility, Hydrogen/headless: and a clear-eyed view of when they're worth adopting and when they aren't. • Health: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, an employer-funded HSA, and short & long-term disability benefits • Financial: 401(k) with generous employer match • Annual bonus based on company performance • Time off: unlimited paid time off policy, 20 weeks parental leave, an executive team that encourages a good work/life balance • Personal growth: Annual Learning & Development stipend, and access to a range of personal and professional coaching solutions through BetterUp • Food: a free Custom Classic ButcherBox each month and weekly lunch reimbursement • Other: reimbursement for wellness activities, an exceptional EAP, fertility benefits, life insurance and more
Responsibilities
• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Shopify/Liquid theme and storefront: the patterns, conventions, and structural decisions the team builds within, and the roadmap for paying down what no longer serves us. • Act as Tech Lead for our internal web developers: review PRs, set and enforce coding guidelines, and give clear technical direction on how work should be approached before it starts. • Stay hands-on. Build features yourself, take on the hardest tickets, and prototype the approach when a pattern needs proving out. Roughly a player/coach split, with the coaching never crowding out the code. • Manage the technical relationship with third parties, including our design and development agency partners: scoping work, setting expectations on architecture and quality, reviewing what they deliver, and making sure their output fits cleanly into our codebase. • Stay current with the evolution of the Shopify platform and drive internal adoption of new capabilities: so ButcherBox leans on platform functionality rather than accumulating custom implementations we then must maintain. • Work with our internal engineering and data teams where the storefront meets the broader stack: APIs and services, analytics and event tracking, authentication, and anything that crosses the boundary between Shopify and our own systems. • Partner with product management to help design, scope, and validate product direction: bringing technical feasibility, effort, and risk into the conversation early, and helping shape what we build rather than only how. • Act as a highly cross-functional player. Translate between the technical and the business, working closely with e-commerce, marketing, design, and data and analytics teams on launches, A/B tests, tracking and pixels, and promotions, etc. • Will work closely with backend engineering across all projects.
Benefits
• Location: Hybrid (2 days a week in office) preferred, open to US-based remote candidates • Location:
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