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Build your career as an Ecommerce Developer
Projects where the store is yours top to bottom: which platform holds it, which checkout collects and who answers when the campaign arrives. Shakers connects you with teams that arrive with a store to decide, not with a list of technologies.
Going independent with online stores starts in an English marketplace, in someone else's rate guide or in the Reddit thread asking whether to charge by hour or by project. None tells you how project collaboration works with scope closed and an identifiable company.
This is not a study route: it is what gets touched on a real brief, what you must prove and where your territory ends.
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- More continuity between projects
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Join ShakersThe decisions an Ecommerce Developer makes every week
An Ecommerce Developer builds and maintains online stores: they choose the platform with the business (Shopify and its Liquid, PrestaShop with PHP and Symfony, WooCommerce on WordPress) and develop what the template does not ship: the checkout, the gateway with Stripe or Redsys, the ERP and the marketplace. The craft reaches migration and maintenance, with the technical SEO of the product page. The boundary: visual design is the UX family's; the web with no store, the WordPress Developer; server logic, the backend.
You decide which platform holds the store (Shopify with Liquid, PrestaShop with Symfony, WooCommerce on WordPress), what is custom versus template and how payment enters with Stripe or Redsys. You also decide what the store rejects: a checkout untested on staging does not ship. The product belongs to the team; the store that takes payments is yours.
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What an Ecommerce Developer delivers on a Shakers project
The brief arrives with the store
The business opening its first store, the migration from PrestaShop 1.7 or the checkout that does not convert: a store problem, not a list of technologies.
Stores that hold themselves up
Documented theme, custom module and payment tested on staging: the business maintains what you deliver when the milestone closes, with technical SEO intact.
The platform is the craft
Liquid for Shopify, PHP and Symfony for PrestaShop, WooCommerce on WordPress, with Odoo on the ERP and Stripe or Redsys on the gateway.
Stores that shipped, not mockups
Having taken stores to production and knowing how to tell them: which platform, what you migrated and what held up through the sales campaign.
What is custom and what is not
Choosing between template, custom theme or off-the-shelf module by maintenance cost, not fashion. Sometimes the template wins, and defending it.
Where your brief ends
You build and maintain the store; you do not design the brand nor run the marketplaces. If it asks for the web with no store or UX, you say so at kickoff.
Frequently asked questions
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What does an Ecommerce Developer do on a real project?
Stores approved on real data, checkouts that take payments and migrations that lose nothing from the catalogue. One week you touch Liquid, another a PrestaShop module: the whole store is yours.
Can you make a living building online stores?
Yes, and it gets measured by platform: 196 active job ads in Spain mention Shopify, 52 WooCommerce and 37 PrestaShop (n=31,557). Selling the craft by project, not bidding against the world.
How much does an Ecommerce Developer earn by project?
The market and the scope set it: which platform, how much is custom versus template and whether migration and maintenance come in. At Shakers you agree the budget per project before accepting.
Should you specialise in a single platform?
Enter through one, Shopify, PrestaShop or WooCommerce, and the market asks for the second: selling several platforms is the norm in the Spanish SERP. Certification filters you by the one you master.
By the hour or by project as an Ecommerce Developer?
It is the question of every forum thread. The project route closes scope before kickoff: which platform, which deliverables and which maintenance. You charge per defined engagement, not for presence.
How do you join Shakers as a certified Ecommerce Developer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 percent make it. Then you choose which online stores you take on.
The daily shape of the craft
The module that ships today, the payment tested on staging and the migration that lands Friday. Less fighting templates, more store that the business maintains.
The tools are the craft
196 active tech job ads in Spain mention Shopify, 52 WooCommerce and 37 PrestaShop (Shakers market analysis, n=31,557, September 2026). The market titles by platform: the double PrestaShop / WordPress post is a real job.
How people get here
Two doors: the PHP Developer landing on PrestaShop or WooCommerce, and the frontend developer entering via Shopify themes. The umbrella is the norm: whoever sells stores sells several platforms.
What this role is not
You do not design the brand nor administer the marketplaces. Your product is the store itself: its code and its continuity. If the engagement asks for the web with no store or the server in depth, you say so at kickoff.
Who you share a store project with
A store that sells is not held up alone: whoever holds the web with no store, whoever shares the PHP engine and whoever polishes the screen.
WordPress Developer
WooCommerce lives on WordPress: when the engagement is the whole website with its store, themes and plugins included, the project passes to their row.
PHP Developer
PrestaShop is PHP with Symfony: you buy the store, they hold the engine. The migrations to Laravel and the legacy with no platform cross both rows.
Backend Developer
When integration weighs more than the store: ERP in depth, queues and APIs with no platform in between, server logic passes to their repository.
Full Stack Developer
The cross-sectional job ad titles store fullstack: when the project brings web, app and data from the same trade, they cover both layers of the system.
Frontend Developer
The Liquid theme reaches as far as it reaches: when the store asks for a fine custom interface, the visible layer passes to their repository.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
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Want to sign stores that take payments?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which online stores your craft builds.
