Technical Lead, Web Development

Who We Are ButcherBox is a certified B Corp headquartered in Boston, and honored to be celebrating our fourth year in a row on Inc.'s list of Best Workplaces. At ButcherBox, we believe in better. That’s why we deliver 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef, free-range organic chicken, pork raised crate-free, and wild-caught seafood directly to our members’ doors. All of our products are humanely raised or wild-caught and never given antibiotics or added hormones ever.   We’re working to build a world that’s better for all, and we’re inviting everyone to come along. For us, better means treating our planet with respect. It means improving the lives of animals and the livelihoods of farmers. It means never cutting corners when it comes to doing business. Ultimately, it means better meals, enjoyed together. Our team is made up of people who collaborate and support one another. We’re always looking for outstanding people to join our mission! 

About the Job

A hands-on technical leader to own the technical health and direction of Shopify storefront. You are responsible for setting standards our web developers build against, staying deep in the code, and partnering with PMs, designers, our engineering and data teams, and our external agency and partners (Shopify and Recharge) to keep the customer-facing experience fast, maintainable, and evolving with the platform. 

Fosters leadership in others. Leads cross-functional projects. Champions company culture. Models at least three core values and is working on others. Develops high-potential employees. You'll spend meaningful time in the codebase, and meaningful time making the developers around you better. 

What you'll do 

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Shopify/Liquid theme and storefront: the patterns, conventions, and structural decisions the team builds within, and the roadmap for paying down what no longer serves us. 

• Act as Tech Lead for our internal web developers: review PRs, set and enforce coding guidelines, and give clear technical direction on how work should be approached before it starts. 

• Stay hands-on. Build features yourself, take on the hardest tickets, and prototype the approach when a pattern needs proving out. Roughly a player/coach split, with the coaching never crowding out the code. 

• Manage the technical relationship with third parties, including our design and development agency partners: scoping work, setting expectations on architecture and quality, reviewing what they deliver, and making sure their output fits cleanly into our codebase. 

• Stay current with the evolution of the Shopify platform and drive internal adoption of new capabilities: so ButcherBox leans on platform functionality rather than accumulating custom implementations we then must maintain.