Series Eight is seeking a full-time Senior Shopify Developer to join our remote team of brand and web designers, illustrators, animators, front-end developers, project managers and founders.

We’re a close-knit, talented team of 20, working together to create brands, websites and e-commerce stores. Working mostly to a UK timezone, we’re looking for someone residing either in the UK or Europe.

You have at least five years experience in front-end development.

Great working knowledge of the Shopify and Shopify Plus platform including Shopify plugins

You have a portfolio of work that demonstrates your abilities.


You have skills in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and Git, and experience with modern JS frameworks like React/Vue or Alpine. Knowing some PHP and Tailwind CSS would be nice to have too.


You work well independently, but also collaboratively.

Ability to problem solve, creatively and technically.

You have an eye for detail and love bringing sites to life with animation.

You’re a good communicator with a friendly attitude.


Build responsive web projects from Figma on Shopify, (CraftCMS, Sanity and Contentful would be a bonus)

You’ll develop sites with accessibility in mind, and test for cross browser compatibility


Discussing a designer’s creative concepts and assessing how to make things a reality

What we consider as ‘work’ and ‘play’ aren’t always clearly defined. Our curiosity and creativity connects us and drives us. And, as far as we’re concerned, staying in your comfort zone is always a no-go.


We love to learn, especially from each other. We’re constantly honing our design, development, and copywriting skills, and mastering new platforms and features. Because the best learners are the lifelong ones.


We share honest feedback and challenge ideas, but we also focus on the common ground. We’ll challenge things for the sake of better work, but never just because. No one’s got time for that.

We spend our days building sites and building up each other. A new project means a new opportunity to connect, collaborate, and celebrate our clients and teammates. In it together, and in it for the long run.

Be part of a friendly, collaborative and positive team of people

Monthly virtual socials and annual in-person team trip

Friday 50/50s - 4 hours dedicated to growth and learning

28 days of annual holiday plus bank holidays, plus a long paid Christmas holiday

We’re serious about embracing diversity and equality, and believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better our work will be.

Whoever you are, wherever you’re based, and whatever else makes you, you - we’re here for it. If there are things we can do to support you during the interview process, then we want to know. And the same goes for the pronouns you use.


We believe in being ourselves, and we want you to be yourself, too.

Senior Shopify Developer

Series Eight is seeking a full-time Senior Front-end Developer to join our remote team of brand and web designers, illustrators, animators, front-end developers, project managers and founders.


Build responsive web projects from Figma on CraftCMS, Shopify, Sanity and Contentful

Senior Front-end Developer

We believe great work begins with happy people and ends with happy clients. If you can see yourself as part of a spirited team of worldwide people people, we're always on the lookout for more people who get us.

28 days holiday, plus bank holidays, plus long Christmas holiday

Across borders, and all on the same page

We share a passion for what we do. 

We love to learn, especially from each other. We’re constantly honing our design, development, and copywriting skills, and mastering new platforms and features. Because the best learners are the lifelong ones.

We love to learn.

We share honest feedback and challenge ideas, but we also focus on the common ground. We’ll challenge things for the sake of better work, but never just because. No one’s got time for that.


We leave egos in the background.

We build each other up. 

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Here at S8, annual leave is a biggie. Everyone gets 28 days to cash in whenever they like. Plus, local bank holidays, a long Christmas shutdown, and extra days for our team retreat. Here’s why we think more time OOO is the way to go.

As a fully remote agency, WFH is all we know. But when you work from home, it’s even more important to get that work-life balance down. Your workplace doubles as a place for downtime. And although we’re big on flexible working – and choosing when, where and how we work best – it’s still important to step away from the desk and fully disconnect. Because with regular breathers come fewer burnouts and big productivity boosts.

Different locations mean different bank holidays

The fact we’re based in different countries means we all benefit from different bank holiday dates. Although we all get roughly the same number (except for lucky Biel in Barca), having that extra annual leave means we can celebrate our home country’s traditions the way we want to. Tag extra days onto already long weekends, travel to meet family during big festivities like Easter, or (if you’re based in the UK) turn the month of May into one big holiday.

A bigger holiday allowance means more flexibility when it comes to taking time off. Instead of weighing up whether to take time off at Christmas or squeeze in a last-minute summer getaway (especially if you’re holding out for great British weather) – you can do both. Plus, more holiday to spend means more time to really disconnect (or just get over the jetlag) and come back to your desk fully refreshed on Monday.

We all know that weird period between Christmas and New Year. You have no idea what day it is – or what the heck you should be doing. But in our book, the last thing on our minds should be work. That’s why we give ourselves two wonderful weeks to switch off, hit reset, and simply celebrate the holidays however we want to. It’s the best way to reflect on the year and come back with a brand-new focus for the year ahead.

Because there’s a whole world out there

We love what we do – partly because of what it enables us to do. Visit new places, experience new things, tackle house renovations, or just go hard on our hobbies. Those extra days of annual leave mean we can take time out for what’s really important. Plus, it means more travel/foodie/DIY tips for the rest of us.

Why our holiday allowance is hefty

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Shopify's Summer '23 Editions is here – and there’s some pretty major announcements on the development front. Our Lead Dev, Alistair, outlines the biggest and best of this latest feature drop.

Bundles have always been something that is annoying to do on Shopify. We could build the functionality ourselves, but it took a surprisingly large amount of work. The alternative? Pay for a third-party app which adds additional dependencies and complexity to the site.

Now Shopify has implemented its own 'official' bundle system. It's only 'fixed' bundles at the moment, which means store owners need to specify exactly which products are in the bundle. But we're hoping that 'flexible' bundles — where a customer can pick which products they'd like — are added soon!

This one is huge! We've been working with subscriptions apps for a long time and the addition of an official integration will really shake the scene. Subscriptions are a core part of loads of businesses and we're all really excited to see how this could streamline and simplify subscription management.

The official app looks pretty simple compared to the big apps – and for a really well-optimised or custom setup, they'll still be the best option for a long time at least. But, for simple setups, Shopify’s new app looks ideal and will definitely open up subscriptions to more stores.

'Duplicating' a store has previously been pretty hard. We actually built our own internal tools to make it easier to spin up a staging store or to create a new store for a multi-currency setup.

Now when you create a new store, you have the option to copy your product catalogue, files and themes to the new store. Super handy for development and if you need multiple stores that are similar!

This is a really interesting and easy way to sell products from other brands in your store  – or, become a supplier yourself. You can choose a product from another company, add it to your store, and when someone purchases it, they handle the order, shipping and process for you!

Most exciting for me though is that you can do both! I love the idea of a group of stores with similar products 'teaming up' as suppliers and retailers to give customers the best possible purchasing experience.

So this might sound like the most boring sounding feature to come out of this Editions, but it's actually got us developers jumping for joy.

The previous limit of 100 variants sounds high, but it’s actually easily reached. I once built a clothing store that sold a specific jumper in Loose and Slim fit, in 6 different sizes and 10 different colours. That’s 120 variants.

So, the upcoming increase to 250 variants will make it much easier to build products with lots of options.

Customising content across B2B and Markets

Only a few weeks ago, a couple of our developers were wishing for this exact feature! Clearly someone at Shopify somehow got the message!

Shopify has added a 'context switcher' to the theme customiser, allowing store owners to change the content of the site depending on the customer’s Market (based on their location) or if they're a B2B/Wholesaler. You had a bit of control previously using Localisation, but it was pretty difficult to use, particularly with sections and blocks. Now if you need to change the content, images, products on display or anything else in the customiser per country or currency, it's as simple as going to that dropdown.

It'll be interesting to dig into how this feels to use, as it looks like it might be pretty easy to get confused about which context you're editing. Hopefully it's really clear and Shopify adds features to sync changes to make it easier to manage.

During the Shopify Editions Winter '23, I voiced our concerns about the deprecation of checkout.liquid and how Checkout Extensions didn't have all the functionality we needed. This is a definite step in the right direction from Shopify, giving a clear route forward for upsells and recommendations on the checkout page which were uncertain until now.

Similar to upsells, there were features we'd been relying on checkout.liquid for that there were no clear replacements for. Shopify has made it easier for developers to add or change the validation rules within the checkout. A regular request we get for the checkout is preventing users from shipping to PO boxes. Until now, the best we could do was add a warning banner above the address input for all users –  but still allow orders to PO boxes anyway. With these new validation rules, we can prevent checking out with a PO box and give the user more direct feedback that their address is invalid.

The editor experience on Shopify has been a constant bugbear of ours. It's not bad, but when you have a large site with lots of flexible JSON templates and sections, it can get really confusing. On some of those projects we've even gone to the extent of creating a 'cheatsheet' of screenshots of each section to help.

From a first look, Section previews looks like it will make managing sections a lot easier. There hasn't been much detail over how it actually works, is it automatically-generated? Or do we upload screenshots when we make our sections like we have to with other CMSs? It'll be interesting to see when it rolls out.

Flex sections look like they could be a huge addition, allowing editors to drag+drop blocks in a page more easily. The real proof will be when we can see how it's implemented – plus, how useful it is for third-party themes that aren't based on Dawn.

Sidekick seems really powerful and a great time-saver – particularly for store admins that just want to get the information they need and move on. In terms of finding information about your store and Shopify, it seems super handy.

Like many AI tools however, make sure you keep an eye on its output. We've seen Sidekick returning information about Shopify that is completely incorrect, and breaking themes when instructed to make code changes. Hopefully these will be ironed out, but it's worth being a little cautious with this one!

Shopify Flow is an automation tool that allows you to automate actions in your store with simple If-This-Then-That style rules. It's been available for a long time on Shopify Plus, but now it's available on all plans. Nice!

Metaobjects were the big star of Editions Winter ‘23, and we've been loving them since their release. Metaobjects make it so much easier to build advanced CMS setups that are still really easy to manage and edit. During our first development call after their announcement, we talked about our disappointment that they could only be used on existing pages and products, not be given their own URLs and Templates.

Once again Shopify listened! Metaobjects can now have their own URLs, allowing us to take that same advanced CMS setup onto the frontend of the site like many other full-on CMSs. Previously for a site with an event system, we'd be building that part on a different platform or by re-using blogs. But now we can build that system right into metaobjects in a way that makes more sense, works better for SEO and is so much easier to manage!

I'm really excited about this feature and looking forward to seeing what our team can do with it!

Klaviyo is a standard recommendation for our stores, providing really helpful and advanced email+SMS flows. We use them to help engage with customers and do effective email marketing. It’s the bread and butter of our sister agency Parallel 9.

That's why we're really interested in Shopify stepping up their digital marketing game with Marketing Tools, providing flows and templates that might just rival Klaviyo's at some point. They currently seem a little simple. But, for smaller stores with less complex marketing needs, they could do the job and keep everything nicely within the Shopify platform. Definitely one we've got our eye on!

Shopify Summer ‘23 Editions: first impressions and best additions

We’re rounding off our 5-part accessibility in design series with 

: how best to approach movement and animation on your website – and what not to do if you want to make sure it passes the WCAG’s AA accessibility testing.

First up, is motion bad for accessibility?

Believe it or not, a video background is actually a lot more accessible than a static image. Why? Because the motion allows users with accessibility needs to clearly differentiate the static content from the moving content – and that, friends, makes it much more legible.

You see this kind of format on common streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, ITVX and iPlayer. The sites play trailers in the background of the hero – sometimes with shadows and overlays to help the text stand out more. For a refresher on colour contrasts and backgrounds, visit our 

How to make your movement and motion accessible

On the average website, motion makes up 20% of the user experience. It’s known to  increase interactions and sales on some sites, but that doesn’t mean everything should move. Overdoing it can result in really bad drop-offs and just frustrate users – so approach it with caution.

Guidance from the WCAG states that anything with motion on a website, whether it be a simple transition, video content or a gif, should never flash more than three times. Not only is it pretty distracting, but too much flashing can be harmful to users with accessibility needs.

Some accessible users might experience anxiety as well as vision impairments. This is why it’s so important not to bombard your users by causing everything to move at once. Time things intelligently – and don’t trigger anything too crazy at a point where they might be reading some important copy.

Accessibility in design - Motion

In this blog series, we’re unpacking all the vital areas of accessibility in design. It’s been a legal requirement since 2017 for websites to meet the AA criteria outlined by W3C – the global community that believes in a web for all of us – on anything.

 – something that’s super important not just from an accessibility standpoint, but for general usability, too.

We all know how important first impressions are. But put this in the context of a user’s first interaction with your brand, and the stakes just got higher. And that just goes for those that don’t have accessibility needs.

The snap decisions that a user makes could be the difference between them trusting, buying or even engaging with you or not. And when you strip away all the other elements of your brand and are left with just the plain-text format of a screen reader, you can see why it’s so essential for your content to be structured as intelligently and logically as possible.

Let’s take product descriptions, for example. The goal is to draw your readers in, build trust, and encourage them to convert. Do we talk about features first? Or should we start with product names? Navigating a page with a screen reader means your content will be presented in the order it’s positioned, so it’s important to get it right.

If they’re using a screen reader, the user will see the name of the product first. This means they may not know what they’re looking at.

A screen reader would tell this user what the product is before talking about its features. Visually, it feels much more desirable to non-accessible users, too.

Your path to purchase should be suitable for all users – both the skimmers and the in-depth readers. And the fact that this is your primary CTA should also be reflected in your content hierarchy.

But we’re not just talking preheadings, headings, and sections on the page. Your button hierarchy is important, too. Think about users that could be browsing through your site and trying to quickly find a contact or “buy” button – only to find all the CTAs look the same.

As a general rule of thumb, make sure no two CTAs in the same port follow the same styling. This makes navigating your content, and committing to a call to action, much easier for the user.

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