Position Details: Web Developer

Overall Purpose of the Role:

• You take initiative and are always up to date on E-commerce design and best practice, and you perform continuous testing and improvements.

• New builds, change requests and general bug fixes on a multilingual, global Shopify Plus platform.

• Translation of UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features

• Optimising applications for maximum speed

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs

• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability

• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end

• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Stay up to date on emerging technologies

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years experience in a similar role, with a proficient understanding of web mark-up, including HTML5, CSS3

• Experience in building complex user interface

• Experience from API integrations or similar

• Knowledge and experience of CRO

• 2 years minimum experience in Shopify & Liquid is required.

• 5 years experience on server-side CSS pre-processing tools, such as LESS and SASS

• 5 years experience on client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.

• Good knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. (I.e. Photoshop/illustrator).

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.

• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.