Senior Shopify & Web Developer

Company Description

Sniffies is a location-based, interactive web app designed for gay, bi, and curious individuals to connect and explore their sexuality in a safe and judgment-free environment. Utilizing an innovative map interface, users can discover nearby individuals, popular meetup spots, and participate in live video chats through Sniffies LivePlay. The platform is accessible on any device with a browser, allowing users to engage without requiring downloads. Sniffies fosters an open, team-driven culture where creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to positively impacting the community are prioritized.

The Role:

We’re looking for a dedicated developer to own and evolve our content and commerce engine. The successful candidate is someone who can think beyond tasks and take real ownership of how the experience performs, scales, and converts.

This role sits at the intersection of Shopify, content, and our product ecosystem. You’ll be responsible for building, maintaining, and improving a platform that supports editorial content, product drops, and integrated marketing experiences. You’ll also contribute to integrations with our platform, enabling seamless user experiences between the core platform and Shopify-powered commerce.

You should be equally comfortable shipping quickly, solving messy problems, and building for long-term scalability - with a strong eye toward performance, UX, and compliance.

What You’ll Do:

Own the content and commerce engine platform end-to-end

• Lead all development across Shopify + supporting web infrastructure
• Act as the go-to technical owner

Build & optimize the Shopify experience

• Customize themes, templates, and storefront UX
• Improve conversion, merchandising, and product storytelling
• Support merch drops and new product initiatives

Integrate content + commerce

• Create seamless pathways between editorial content and product experiences
• Support landing pages, campaign builds, and content modules

Drive performance & growth

• Improve site speed, SEO structure, and technical performance
• Implement tracking, analytics, and attribution improvements
• Optimize for acquisition and revenue

Ensure compliance & platform stability

• Navigate platform constraints (Shopify, payments, content policies)
• Maintain site reliability and troubleshoot issues quickly

Collaborate cross-functionally

• Work closely with marketing, creative, and growth teams
• Translate business and creative needs into technical solutions

Continuously iterate

• Identify opportunities for improvement proactively
• Bring ideas, not just execution

What You Bring:

• Strong experience with Shopify development (custom themes, Liquid, APIs)
• Solid front-end experience and light backend integrations
• Experience working with or willingness to learn AngularJS and NodeJS
• Experience with content-driven platforms (blogs, editorial, CMS integrations)
• Strong understanding of e-commerce best practices
• Familiar with analytics tools
• Able to work independently and take true ownership of a product surface
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment

Experience with the following is a bonus:

• Experience with Angular (modern frameworks or AngularJS)
• Experience integrating Shopify with custom web applications
• Experience with subscription products, gated content, or PWA environments

This isn’t a typical Shopify role.

You’ll be building a platform that sits inside a culturally relevant, fast-growing brand, one that blends content, community, and commerce in a way that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across both Shopify and a live product ecosystem (An AngularJS app), shaping how commerce integrates directly into user experiences.

You’ll have real ownership, real impact, and the ability to shape how this platform evolves.