Shopify Developer for Social Gallery + Beauty Store
Budget: $250 – $750 USD
**Shopify App Developer — Build a Custom Social Gallery + Sephora-style Beauty Store**
We run Femme Lux Beauty, a growing prestige beauty retailer (~52 brands, physical stores + warehouses). Our Shopify store is live but needs a strong developer to take it to a Sephora-level experience. **The centerpiece is a custom Shopify app that powers a social Gallery** — so app development is required, not theme-only work.
**THE GALLERY (flagship deliverable):** An Instagram-style social feature, built as a custom Shopify app:
- Logged-in customers upload photos/videos with captions
- Like, comment, and follow other users
- User profiles (username, avatar, posts, followers/following)
- Tag Femme Lux products in each post
- Tagged posts auto-appear on those product pages under "See it in Real Life" (shoppable UGC)
- Admin moderation queue (approve before public), report/ban, image moderation
- Notifications on likes/comments/follows
This is real social functionality with a backend and database — NOT a third-party UGC widget. If you can't build that, this role isn't a fit.
**Plus the rest of the store build (full spec to share):**
- Theme cleanup (links, menu hierarchy, SEO, content)
- Reviews & Q&A with skin-type/tone/concern filters + photo reviews
- Advanced filtering & search; wishlist ("Loves"); personalized recommendations
- Loyalty/points program with tiers; shade/foundation finder quiz
- Store pickup (BOPIS), store locator with inventory, in-store service & event booking
**Must-haves:**
- Senior Shopify **app development** (Shopify CLI, App Bridge, Admin & Storefront APIs, app proxy, theme app extensions, webhooks)
- Full-stack: backend + database, auth, media uploads, image moderation
- Strong theme dev (Liquid, metafields/metaobjects)
- Portfolio of live Shopify stores AND custom apps
**Reply with:**
1. A custom Shopify app you've built (link/repo/listing) — ideally with social or user-generated content
2. Have you built a feature with user uploads + likes + comments + follows? Show it.
3. Briefly: how would you architect the Gallery app described above (data model, auth, where posts live, how product tagging surfaces on product pages)?
4. Links to 2–3 Shopify stores you've built
5. Estimate broken down by phase, your rate, and availability
We move fast and value quality.
We run Femme Lux Beauty, a growing prestige beauty retailer (~52 brands, physical stores + warehouses). Our Shopify store is live but needs a strong developer to take it to a Sephora-level experience. **The centerpiece is a custom Shopify app that powers a social Gallery** — so app development is required, not theme-only work.
**THE GALLERY (flagship deliverable):** An Instagram-style social feature, built as a custom Shopify app:
- Logged-in customers upload photos/videos with captions
- Like, comment, and follow other users
- User profiles (username, avatar, posts, followers/following)
- Tag Femme Lux products in each post
- Tagged posts auto-appear on those product pages under "See it in Real Life" (shoppable UGC)
- Admin moderation queue (approve before public), report/ban, image moderation
- Notifications on likes/comments/follows
This is real social functionality with a backend and database — NOT a third-party UGC widget. If you can't build that, this role isn't a fit.
**Plus the rest of the store build (full spec to share):**
- Theme cleanup (links, menu hierarchy, SEO, content)
- Reviews & Q&A with skin-type/tone/concern filters + photo reviews
- Advanced filtering & search; wishlist ("Loves"); personalized recommendations
- Loyalty/points program with tiers; shade/foundation finder quiz
- Store pickup (BOPIS), store locator with inventory, in-store service & event booking
**Must-haves:**
- Senior Shopify **app development** (Shopify CLI, App Bridge, Admin & Storefront APIs, app proxy, theme app extensions, webhooks)
- Full-stack: backend + database, auth, media uploads, image moderation
- Strong theme dev (Liquid, metafields/metaobjects)
- Portfolio of live Shopify stores AND custom apps
**Reply with:**
1. A custom Shopify app you've built (link/repo/listing) — ideally with social or user-generated content
2. Have you built a feature with user uploads + likes + comments + follows? Show it.
3. Briefly: how would you architect the Gallery app described above (data model, auth, where posts live, how product tagging surfaces on product pages)?
4. Links to 2–3 Shopify stores you've built
5. Estimate broken down by phase, your rate, and availability
We move fast and value quality.