BigCommerce Developer
Support BigCommerce stores during migration discovery and help map their native features and apps onto the right Shopify equivalent.
BigCommerce migrations are different from most: both platforms are fully hosted, so the work is less about untangling infrastructure and more about mapping functionality correctly. As a BigCommerce Developer at UVT, you'll understand what a client's current store does natively versus through an app, so the Shopify rebuild doesn't miss anything or duplicate effort.
What You'll Do
- Audit a client's BigCommerce store during migration discovery: native features in use, installed apps, and any custom storefront API work.
- Map BigCommerce-native functionality (multi-currency, product filtering, some B2B tools) to its correct Shopify equivalent, native feature, app, or custom build, rather than assuming a like-for-like match exists.
- Flag checkout customization that was possible on BigCommerce's standard checkout but needs Shopify Plus Checkout Extensibility to replicate.
- Perform direct BigCommerce maintenance for clients still running their current site during a transition period.
- Work alongside the Shopify development team as the BigCommerce-side expert on each migration.
What We're Looking For
- Real, hands-on BigCommerce development experience: Stencil theme development, the BigCommerce Storefront API, and app/webhook configuration.
- Comfortable auditing a live store and documenting its functionality clearly for a team that doesn't know BigCommerce.
- Enough familiarity with Shopify's data model to map features between the two platforms conceptually, even without deep Shopify development experience.
- Clear written communication, since a lot of this role is translating one platform's functionality into terms a Shopify-focused team can act on.
Nice to have: experience with a prior BigCommerce-to-Shopify migration specifically, headless BigCommerce experience, multi-storefront BigCommerce setups.
What We Offer
Remote-first work, and specialist standing on a platform most agencies don't have deep bench strength in, which means your expertise gets used, not duplicated across a large team.
How to Apply
Use the form on this page. Tell us about a BigCommerce store you've worked on and what was genuinely custom about it.
