Shopify Backend Developer

Overview

Your Purpose

Your Impact

• Develop scalable backend applications and services that align with the eCommerce ecosystem and business operations.
• Build and maintain custom Shopify applications, app extensions, and backend functionalities tailored to business requirements.
• Develop store specific features using shopify functions and UI extensions.
• Develop secure APIs, middleware, and integration systems.
• Build standalone applications and backend platforms aligned with operational and business needs.
• Develop backend solutions that integrate seamlessly with Shopify store functionalities and customer experiences.
• Build and maintain integrations between Shopify, 3PL, ERP, and internal systems.
• Develop backend services for automation workflows, synchronization processes, and operational efficiencies.
• Optimize API response times, server performance, application stability, and backend scalability.
• Implement retry mechanisms, logging, monitoring, caching, and error-handling strategies.
• Collaborate with developers and cross-functional teams to deliver seamless and scalable digital experiences.
• Troubleshoot production issues, integration failures, API bottlenecks, and system performance concerns.
• Improve deployment workflows, release management processes, and environment optimization practices.
• Contribute to backend architecture improvements and long-term scalability planning.

Shopify Backend Development

• Strong hands-on experience with Shopify backend architecture and ecosystem.
• Proven experience in building scalable custom Shopify applications aligned with business and operational requirements.
• Develop backend functionalities that seamlessly integrate with store experiences.
• Creating app extensions and backend systems tailored to requirement specific workflows and platform needs.
• Strong experience in building middleware and integration layers between Shopify and external systems.

Api & Integration Engineering

• Extensive experience with API integrations, webhooks, Third-party service integrations, Secure data exchange.

System Architecture & Scalability

• Strong expertise in Scalable application architecture, high-performance backend systems
• Error handling and performance optimization.

Database Engineering

• Experience with MongoDB / PostgreSQL / MySQL optimization
• Knowledge of Data modelling and schema design.

Security & Authentication

• Strong understanding of:
• Secure API development
• Secure data-handling practices
• Authentication and token management.

Your Journey With Us

Your Expertise

• 3–5+ years of backend development experience.
• Experience building standalone applications or SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud scalability and enterprise application architecture.
• Experience handling production environments.
• Knowledge of automation workflows and operational systems.
• Good understanding of Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Ability to write clean, structured, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Comfort with debugging live issues and solving technical problems independently.
• Familiarity with testing, deployment workflows, and production releases.
• Strong ownership mindset with a product-building attitude.

The Amouage Advantage