Junior Shopify Developer

What You'll Do
We are seeking a motivated Shopify Developer to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the company's multiple Shopify Plus e-commerce websites.  The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of web development best practices and experience, while understanding the importance of a good user experience.

What You'll be Working on

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new website features
• Optimize the website for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensure compatibility with various browsers and devices
• Work cross functionally with the Product, Merchandising and Marketing teams to ensure that all websites are up to date for current product launches
• Partner with the Product team to maintain and optimize Shopify themes
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Assist with Shopify admin management for creating products and collections, maintaining and updating site content such as the home page, custom landing pages, and navigation updates, and managing Shopify Apps
• Work with external vendors and internal teams to maintain current systems and implement new features & functionality
• Troubleshoot and debug any issues that arise on the website
• Work with designers and content creators to ensure website aesthetics and content are in line with company standards
• Develop internal automation applications to improve workflow and reduce busy work
• Improve site reliability with testing, monitoring, and automation tasks
• Work with portfolio of brands to improve sites across all brands
• Develop new themes and applications to improve onboarding of new brands
• Analyzing traffic to inform website maintenance and the effectiveness of marketing strategies and site optimizations
• Continuously research, test and propose new Shopify apps or site features to improve revenue or efficiency based on data/metrics
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies

Must Haves:

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of web development best practices and experience working on a small tech team with many cross functional department leads.

• Minimum of 2 years of Shopify development experience (HTML, CSS, Liquid)
• Strong understanding of Shopify Plus, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery
• Working Understanding of JS frameworks, such as Vue, React, Hydrogen 
• Knowledge of responsive web design and development
• Comfortable using Visual Studio Code or a similar app
• Experience using a Package Manager (Webpack, Yarn, npm)
• Process oriented and able to multitask
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, working with a hybrid/remote team

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with deployment and ecommerce tech life cycle
• Familiarity with SEO best practices
• Created Shopify apps (public or private) in the past
• 2+ years of experience with a JavaScript Framework, preferably Vue
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or related field (preferred)
• Experience configuring and integrating e-commerce systems end to end
• An understanding of UX concepts and ways to improve user experience 
• Can write clean and efficient code
  A quick thinker and a strong communicator
• Not afraid to step outside of your comfort zone, can tackle projects independently
• Know when to lean on your team, and when to step up
• Strong understanding of various Ecommerce tools, such as Google Analytics, Attentive, etc

Primary Location Salary

$90,000 - $100,000