Shopify Technical Lead

About this role

Datmos brings together passionate experts who combine creativity and data to craft inspiring eCommerce experiences.
Driven by a shared passion for excellence, we help visionary brands grow by aligning commerce strategy, digital experience, and technology implementation to deliver innovative, data-driven digital commerce solutions.
Datmos is looking for a Shopify Technical Lead to lead the team that defines, builds, and scales Shopify experiences for our clients. In this unique position, you will blend three core functions: serving as a trusted technical leader for our developers, and as a strategic ecommerce advisor for our clients.
If you love being deep in Shopify themes, apps, and APIs, but you're just as comfortable in a room with a client talking conversion strategy and roadmaps, this role is built for you.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership & Shopify Delivery

• Technical Leadership: Lead the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing Shopify solutions, including themes, custom apps, and API integrations.

• Hands-On Expertise: Remain actively involved in Shopify development, including Liquid, Online Store 2.0, app development, integrations, and third-party APIs.

• Technical Standards: Champion best practices around code quality, security, performance, documentation, and maintainability across Shopify projects.

• Team Development: Mentor and coach developers through pairing, code reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing, fostering autonomy and preventing knowledge silos.

• Technical Vision & Delivery: Guide technical direction, estimation, release planning, risk management, and delivery readiness in collaboration with Architects and Project Managers.

• AI-Enabled Development: Lead the adoption of AI coding agents and emerging technologies, establishing appropriate workflows, guardrails, and quality controls to improve team efficiency without compromising quality.

2. eCommerce Strategy & Client Partnership

• Technical Client Partnership: Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, helping them make informed decisions about their Shopify ecosystem.

• eCommerce Strategy: Contribute to eCommerce strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives, leveraging data, research, competitive insights, and Shopify best practices.

• Platform & Solution Advisory: Advise clients on platform capabilities, technical trade-offs, integrations, and the broader eCommerce ecosystem, including PIM, DAM, ERP, CDP, and martech solutions.

• Strategic Workshops & Pre-Sales: Lead or contribute to client workshops, proposals, discovery, and pre-sales activities, providing technical and strategic expertise.

• Business Impact: Connect technical recommendations to measurable business outcomes such as conversion, revenue, AOV, retention, and customer experience.

3. Product Ownership & Delivery Support

• Requirements & Backlog: Translate business requirements into clear user stories and support backlog management when a dedicated Product Owner is unavailable or requires support.

• Delivery Alignment: Participate in Agile ceremonies and work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to keep business objectives aligned with technical execution.

• Prioritization: Help balance client needs, technical constraints, platform capabilities, and eCommerce opportunities to keep delivery moving forward.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in software development, with significant hands-on experience building and scaling Shopify or comparable eCommerce solutions.

• Shopify Expertise: Deep expertise in Shopify, Liquid, Online Store 2.0, Shopify APIs (Admin API, Storefront API, Shopify Functions), and custom app development or integrations. Shopify Plus experience is a strong asset.

• Technical Leadership: Proven experience leading, mentoring, or supervising developers, with the ability to grow a high-performing team without becoming its sole technical contributor.

• eCommerce Strategy: Strong understanding of eCommerce strategy, data-driven decision-making, KPI development, conversion optimization, customer experience, and digital roadmaps.

• Client Advisory: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advise both technical and business stakeholders and lead strategic workshops.

• Product Ownership: Comfortable with core Product Owner practices, including requirements gathering, user stories, backlog management, prioritization, and Agile delivery.

• eCommerce Ecosystem: Working knowledge of technologies such as PIM, DAM, ERP, CDP, search and merchandising, and review platforms.

• Bilingualism: Fluency in spoken and written English is mandatory; French is an asset.

• AI & Emerging Technologies: Hands-on experience with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows, or a strong willingness and ability to rapidly adopt emerging AI tools and technologies.

• Analytical & Solution-Oriented: Strong analytical skills, sound judgment, and a high degree of autonomy, organization, and ability to prioritize.

• Agency Experience: Experience working in an agency or client-services environment is a strong asset.

• Agile Experience: Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.

• Additional Platforms: Experience with other eCommerce platforms such as BigCommerce or Adobe Commerce, or headless CMS platforms such as Contentful, Sanity, or Storyblok, is an asset.

Why joining us? Joining Datmos means:

• Contributing to a growing company, where your expertise can have a meaningful impact on our evolution.

• Working with renowned North American brands on high-impact digital and e-commerce projects.

• Collaborating with leading technology partners and an ecosystem of recognized digital industry leaders.

• Working alongside 100+ highly skilled experts across complementary disciplines including strategy, design, technology, data, and e-commerce.

• Shaping our vision and ways of working by bringing your ideas,…