Shopify & WordPress Developer

Hiebing is seeking a skilled Shopify & WordPress Developer with 3-4 years of experience who is excited to build high-performing marketing and ecommerce experiences in a collaborative team environment. We're looking for someone who is curious, thinks critically, overcomes challenges, and adapts to change effectively. The right candidate is passionate about problem-solving and want the opportunity to do great work with great people.

We use modern tools and agile practices to empower creative individuals to move projects forward and make a real impact. At Hiebing, we foster a culture of curiosity, support and continues learning - where developers are encouraged to grow, collaborate and have fun along the way!

Responsibilities

• Build, customize and maintain Shopify storefronts with modern theme architecture, including reusable sections/blocks, JSON templates, app extensions and metafields to empower marketers and merchandisers.

• Develop and maintain WordPress websites using modern approaches (block editor, block themes / Site Editor), including custom blocks, theme customization and plugin integrations.

• Implement conversion-focused marketing enhancements: landing pages, forms, tracking, structured content and SEO-friendly patterns.

• Create scalable component patterns that balance design fidelity with maintainability and reusability.

• Participate in Git-based code reviews, providing constructive feedback and collaborating on solutions.

• Follow established workflows and best practices for commits, branching, pull requests, releases, and documentation.

• Work with QA and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, debug and resolve issues, including browser/device inconsistencies and third-party integration conflicts.

• Optimize for performance and Core Web Vitals (e.g. preloading, lazy loading, image optimization, fonts, layout shift).

• Maintain a strong baseline of security-minded development.

• Stay current with platform changes and industry trends (e.g. Shopify checkout customization and WordPress Gutenberg block improvements).

• 3-4 years of professional web development experience, ideally within an agency or multi-client environment.

• Shopify development experience, including:

• Liquid templating, theme development, and modern Shopify concepts (sections everywhere, JSON templates, metafields, app blocks).
• Shopify CLI + theme workflows, environment management, and deployment/release practices.

• WordPress development experience, including:

• Building with the block editor, and comfort extending the editor via custom blocks, structured patterns, or Advanced Custom Fields.
• Theme customization and/or theme development.
• Strong PHP development fundamentals.
• Plugin integration and site configuration for typical marketing stacks (forms, analytics, SEO, caching, consent management).

• Experience working in a team-oriented setting with the belief that teams outperform individuals.
• Strong debugging skills across browser devtools, apps/plugin conflicts, and third-party scripts.
• Experience working closely with marketing strategists and UX/design teams to ship campaign work quickly and reliably.
• This position is hybrid located in Madison, WI. You must be able to be on-site Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday weekly. Working from home is an option each week on Thursday and Friday.
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice-to-have skills and qualifications

Shopify (nice-to-have)

• Experience building or migrating to Checkout Extensibility and understanding the shift away from checkout liquid customization.

• Building reusable Shopify Functions and UI extensions.

• Familiarity with Shopify Storefront API / GraphQL, customer/account flows, and integrating external services.

• Ecommerce UX patterns: merchandising, collections filtering, search, product discovery, and performance tuning for large catalogs.

WordPress (nice-to-have)

• WooCommerce experience (checkout optimizations, payment/shipping plugins, catalog organization).
• Comfort with WP-CLI, Composer, deployment automation, and modern WordPress build pipelines.
• Experience implementing WordPress hardening practices (secure configuration, plugin governance, least privilege).
• Experience working within WPEngine hosting.

Modern marketing tech (nice-to-have)

• Familiarity with analytics/tagging and marketing integrations (GA4/GTM, consent tools, A/B testing, email providers, CDPs).

• Accessibility awareness (WCAG fundamentals) and experience implementing accessible UI patterns.

• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to improve velocity while maintaining quality.