About the Role
Build shopping experiences that bring beauty to life at tarte, a global beauty brand with the entrepreneurial spirit of a founder-led business. We’re looking for a hands-on Shopify developer who brings fresh ideas and enjoys solving problems, with work spanning product launches, influencer activations, and everyday shopping.
You’ll partner across Engineering, Design, Product, Merchandising, Marketing, and Operations to take features from idea to launch and see your work directly shape the customer experience. We value curiosity and knowledge sharing, including helping non-technical teammates build the skills and confidence to do more in Shopify admin and our backend tools.
We move quickly, stay close to our customers, and adapt as new opportunities emerge. You’ll thrive here if you communicate openly, ask thoughtful questions, and enjoy turning business needs into practical solutions.
This role is hybrid and based in New York City, with two days per week in office required
What You’ll Own
Storefront Development & Custom Experiences
Writing code is a core part of this role. You’ll build and maintain custom Shopify themes, templates, sections, and interactive components using Liquid, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You’ll support key shopping experiences across PDPs, collection pages, cart, and customer accounts.
Feature Development & Delivery
You’ll take ownership of assigned features from technical requirements through development, testing, and release. You’ll solve problems proactively and work with the team to deliver high-quality solutions.
Promotions & Ecommerce Functionality
You’ll develop and enhance custom promotional features, including gift-with-purchase (GWP), bundles, discounts, product merchandising, and other conversion-driving shopping experiences.
Search & Product Discovery
You’ll support on-site Shopify search, filtering, collection merchandising, and product discovery enhancements that improve the customer shopping journey.
Performance & Optimization
Site performance, accessibility (WCAG 2.2), and the overall customer experience will remain top of mind. You’ll improve site speed, Core Web Vitals, mobile responsiveness, and overall storefront performance.
Shopify Integrations
You’ll implement and maintain third-party applications, Shopify APIs, and custom integrations that support our merchandising, marketing, and customer experiences.
Testing & Technical Quality
You’ll troubleshoot production issues, participate in code reviews and deployments, and partner with QA to identify regressions and ensure reliable, high-quality releases.
AI-First Development
We’re actively exploring how AI can make the way we build, test, and deploy our ecommerce experiences even smarter. You’ll use AI-powered development tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, code quality, and workflow efficiency, and you’ll look for new ways AI can enhance the shopping experience. You bring a practical and curious perspective on where AI can create meaningful value.
What You Bring
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of Shopify development experience , preferably with Shopify Plus and a direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce brand
- Strong proficiency in Shopify Liquid, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
- Experience with Shopify Online Store 2.0, metafields, metaobjects, theme customization, and the Shopify Admin/Storefront APIs (GraphQL)
- Ability to build reusable frontend components, implement complex shopping logic, and integrate third-party services using REST or GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Git, pull requests, code reviews, debugging, and release workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners
What Will Make You Stand Out:
- Experience with React or other modern frontend frameworks
- Familiarity with Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, or customer account extensions
- Experience with AWS/serverless infrastructure, webhooks, or custom backend integrations
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex or Claude Code
- Experience working within founder-led, DTC, beauty, fashion, or lifestyle brands
Our Perks
- Salary range: $100,000-120,000 (Compensation will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill level, relevant work experience & education)
- Medical, dental, vision, 401K plan & access to health & wellness programs
- Paid vacation, holidays, summer Fridays, birthdays off, volunteer time & more
- Makeup gratis, employee discount on tarte.com, team give back initiatives
- Friendly, fun, creative & collaborative work environment
Tarte is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of Shopify development experience
- Experience with Shopify Plus and direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands
- Strong proficiency in Shopify Liquid, HTML5, CSS3 or SCSS, and modern JavaScript ES6+
- Experience with Shopify Online Store 2.0, metafields, metaobjects, theme customization, and Shopify Admin or Storefront APIs using GraphQL
- Ability to build reusable frontend components and implement complex shopping logic
- Experience integrating third-party services using REST or GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Git, pull requests, code reviews, debugging, and release workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners
- Experience with React or other modern frontend frameworks
- Familiarity with Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, or customer account extensions
- Experience with AWS, serverless infrastructure, webhooks, or custom backend integrations
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex or Claude Code
- Experience with founder-led, direct-to-consumer, beauty, fashion, or lifestyle brands
What We Do
tarte™ is the pioneer of high-performance naturals™ & one of the fastest growing cosmetic companies in the U.S. Over 20 years ago, founder & CEO Maureen Kelly set out to create a cruelty-free line of easy-to-use, life-proof products packed with good-for-you ingredients that deliver real results without compromise. tartelettes around the world – including beauty editors, makeup artists, content creators & celebrities alike – obsess over the full assortment of award-winning, highly-pigmented, & longwearing cosmetics. Each item is developed without the icky, bad stuff (like parabens, mineral oil, phthalates, & more) & with the best naturally-derived ingredients Mother Nature has to offer. The brand is 85% vegan (with 100% vegan skincare!) & further extended their philosophy of “good-for-you glamour” by launching sister brands Awake by tarte™ & sugar rush™. tarte™ is committed to sharing its passion for skinvigorating™ ingredients with the world: it has in-store presence in over 20 countries & online at tarte.com, shipping to over 70 countries worldwide! But tarte™ doesn’t stop there. Giving back has always been a part of the brand’s DNA. In 2017, tarte™ founded heart to tarte™, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to help support causes like anti-cyberbullying, environmental conservancy, animal rescue, disaster relief & women’s & children’s health initiatives. tarte also sustainably sources ingredients directly from cooperatives, & in 2019 helped fund the creation of an all-female maracuja cooperative in the Rainforest.
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