Shopify Technical Lead

Technical Lead

The Technical Lead will be joining a high‐performing, fast‐growing Shopify development team within my client. This team partners closely with leading e‐commerce brands to design, build and optimise high‐impact Shopify experiences that drive performance, reliability and growth.

As part of this role, you will act as a senior, floating technical expert across multiple Agile squads, owning complex technical solutions and being the go‐to problem solver for critical client work. You will work closely with developers, delivery managers and the Head of Shopify to shape technical approaches, review and validate solutions, support new theme development, and step into key client conversations when issues arise to ensure we deliver robust, scalable Shopify solutions.

Salary: £50,000–£55,000 per annum | Location: Leeds or Liverpool (3 days per week on-site)

Main responsibilities

In this role you will act as a senior technical leader within the Shopify department:

• Owning the technical delivery of complex Shopify projects and retainer work across multiple squads, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions
• Collaborating closely with developers, delivery managers and the wider solutions team to review scopes, validate feasibility, and define robust technical approaches
• Serving as a floating technical resource across squads, stepping into priority work, unblocking teams and resolving urgent client issues when needed
• Leading technical discussions with clients, joining key calls to explain solutions, address concerns and demonstrate senior technical ownership
• Staying on top of Shopify updates and ecosystem changes, proactively sharing insights with the team and guiding how they are adopted in our stack
• Providing hands-on development support (primarily Liquid/Shopify, with React and PHP/Laravel or Symfony as beneficial), setting best practices and coding standards
• Acting as the right hand to the Head of Shopify, giving clear, proactive communication on risks, opportunities, team challenges and technical improvements
• Mentoring and supporting engineers within the squads, helping to grow internal capability and, where relevant, supporting the progression of future technical leaders

Desired Experience

• Extensive commercial experience working with Shopify day in, day out, with a deep understanding of its ecosystem, features, and latest updates.
• Strong hands-on development skills with Shopify's core technologies (Liquid, front-end JavaScript/React); experience across both front-end and back-end (PHP/Laravel) is highly desirable.
• Proven track record operating at senior/lead level in an engineering team, owning complex pieces of work and being the "go-to" technical problem solver.
• Experience working in an agency or multi-client environment, confidently handling BAU/retainer work as well as larger projects and platform initiatives (e.g. new theme development).
• Comfortable acting as a floating technical resource across multiple squads, quickly picking up unfamiliar codebases, clients, and domains.
• Strong grasp of modern development workflows and tooling (e.g. Git, Jira, Figma) and of Agile ways of working within cross-functional squads.
• Effective & proactive communicator — able to translate complex technical topics for non-technical stakeholders, lead client-facing conversations, and keep leadership informed without being asked.

Bonus Experience

• Strong PHP Laravel and/or Symfony experience to help bridge work across our wider engineering teams.
• Experience working in digital agencies or eCommerce environments with multi-squad setups.
• Familiarity with Figma and modern design-to-development workflows.
• Previous exposure to client-facing technical roles, solution design, or pre-sales support.
• Experience mentoring developers or acting as a go-to technical reference within a team.

What's on Offer

• Up to £55k salary (aligned with current Tech Lead banding, with potential for review)
• Hybrid working / 3 days per week on-site in either Liverpool or Leeds
• Opportunity to work with high-profile Shopify clients (including leading F1 and fashion brands) and on a new in-house Shopify theme
• Clear growth opportunities within a fast-growing, recently merged, Shopify Platinum agency (with proven internal progression from Mid Dev to Department Head)