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Hire a Shopify Developer.

Shopify themes, apps and checkout, built and fixed.

Also called: Shopify Developers, Shopify Theme Developer, Shopify Plus Developer

From AUD $7.50 an hourAUD $7.50-33/hr

  • E-commerce
  • Shopify
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A free 15-minute call on Teams.

  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Shopify Developer gets doneSample day
  • Builds and customises Online Store 2.0 themesTheme development
  • Builds checkout UI extensions and Shopify FunctionsApps, checkout & APIs
  • Builds headless storefronts with Hydrogen and the Storefront APIHeadless & migrations
  • Audits and improves Core Web VitalsPerformance & qualityDoing
In your tools
  • Shopify Admin
  • Shopify Plus
  • Shopify CLI
  • Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome
  • Shopify GraphiQL App
  • Shopify Functions

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $12.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Shopify DeveloperAUD $12.50/hr
At least 59% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns theme features end to end with light review.

  • Custom product page with metafield-driven content
  • Full template customisation from Figma
  • App integration and conflict fixes

1-3 years; 10+ Shopify stores; comfortable with Shopify CLI and Git.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Shopify Developer

Tasks

  • Theme development

    • Builds and customises Online Store 2.0 themes
    • Writes section schema so merchandisers can reuse and edit sections
    • Implements Figma designs for home, collection, product, cart drawer
    • Models custom content with metafields and metaobjects

  • Apps, checkout & APIs

    • Builds checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions
    • Builds custom apps with Shopify CLI, the React Router app template
    • Integrates and configures third-party apps

  • Headless & migrations

    • Builds headless storefronts with Hydrogen and the Storefront API
    • Migrates products, variants, customers, orders and blog content

  • Performance & quality

    • Audits and improves Core Web Vitals
    • Lints with Theme Check and fixes accessibility issues on key templates
    • Sets up tracking through Customer Events and web pixels

  • Release management

    • Ships changes through GitHub-connected themes and preview themes
    • Runs pre-release QA and keeps a rollback theme ready
    • Prepares stores for peak periods with code freezes and pre-sale checks

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English & merchant communicationAll levels20 min
  2. Liquid & OS 2.0 debugging testAll levels45 min
  3. Custom product page buildAll levels4 hrs
  4. API & checkout challengeExpert and Specialist2 hrs
  5. Peak-day incident scenarioIntermediate and up40 min
  6. Portfolio & code reviewAll levels30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

93%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Shopify Developer is AUD $7.50 an hour, Intermediate AUD $12.50, Expert AUD $19 and Specialist AUD $33, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Theme development, apps, checkout & apis, headless & migrations and performance & quality, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English & merchant communication, liquid & OS 2.0 debugging test and custom product page build. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Shopify Developer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Shopify Developer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Shopify Developer owns theme features end to end with light review. An Expert Shopify Developer owns complex outcomes: migrations with reconciled data and redirects, checkout UI extensions. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Shopify Developer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Shopify Admin and Shopify Plus, before you meet them.

In week one: collaborator or staff account on the Shopify admin; gitHub repo access, theme connected to GitHub; and development store or unpublished theme set up for experiments. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Shopify Developers, Shopify Theme Developer and Shopify Plus Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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