Senior shopify development talent and rates in Recruitment & HR Tech
Senior shopify development engineers serving recruitment & hr tech run roughly $95–$150/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Workday + Greenhouse + LinkedIn API + Checkr + HiBob — common integrations: Workday + Greenhouse + Lever ATS, LinkedIn Talent Solutions API, Checkr + Sterling background checks. Standard ecommerce data flows tuned to this industry's compliance + integration realities.
What shopify development actually requires in 2026
Modern Shopify stack: Hydrogen (React) for headless storefronts on Oxygen, Liquid for traditional themes, custom apps in Remix or Node + GraphQL Admin API, and a checkout-extensibility ramp now mandatory (Plus accounts must migrate off checkout.liquid by Aug 2025). Shopify devs who only ship theme tweaks via Theme Customizer cannot deliver headless or custom-app work. The senior tier writes GraphQL queries, manages app proxies, and debugs Liquid → JSON template inheritance. Pay accordingly — the gap between tiers is real.