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Mid-Weight Developer
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Mid-Weight Developer
Strawberry is a well-established specialist ecommerce agency. We're looking for a mid-weight developer for our engineering team, with experience in Shopify and/or BigCommerce.
You'll design, build and deliver high-performance, accessible ecommerce stores, working with client services and creative teams to shape technical scoping, planning and the connectivity between apps that our clients' projects depend on.
We believe in empowering our people, not micromanaging them, so you're free to explore new ideas and ways to improve our clients' performance. Got a better way to do something? Tell us. Want to have a bash at something new and emerging? We want to hear about it.
This spec covers the main expectations of the role. As our clients' needs change, expect your responsibilities to shift with them.
Here’s what’s in it for you…
- We fully embrace remote working from home
- 4 day working week, with full time pay!
- Generous holiday allocation and Christmas off!
- Health scheme
- Work in a vibrant and collaborative environment
- Take ownership for your own work, no micro-managing
What we work with
We work with the market-leading SaaS retail platforms, predominantly Shopify and BigCommerce. Each has its own scripting methods, but our work always involves semantic HTML, clean CSS (Tailwind and similar frameworks), and JavaScript (vanilla, React or Vue).
We also use other technologies, often for integration layers, custom apps and our own products: PHP (Laravel), Ruby and AWS architecture.
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You'll primarily work in and around the front-end of our codebases, with the expertise to develop, maintain and support what we're building on Shopify and BigCommerce now and in future.
You'll also need:
- Familiarity with project management tools
- Familiarity with version control in both GitHub and Bitbucket
- Familiarity with testing tools such as BrowserStack and/or Sizzy
What's expected of you
Technical
- Work with client services to shape technical scoping documents, including how tasks could be approached and estimated timelines, to aid planning.
- Ask the right engineering questions at the start of a project so it runs smoothly and lands well.
- Work with the design team to check everything envisioned is possible, and flag where a design won't work as expected, fails accessibility, or goes against basic web principles.
- Explain technical information as simply as the audience needs, whether that's a developer or someone with no technical background.
- Work to deadlines. If one's at risk, say so early and keep the right people updated.
- Write clear testing plans for tickets that get handed off, and log technical documentation where it's useful for your features.
- Safely deploy work, including work that isn't yours, to live stores — finalising pull requests, confirming testing is complete, merging to main branches, and pushing to a new theme or live server.
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Team
- Be the first port of call for project-based issues within your area of the engineering team.
- Support other engineers in their work. If one of us struggles, we all end up struggling.
- Attend and contribute to client and internal meetings, speaking to the engineering side.
- Help scope projects so they're set up for efficient development.
- Share what you're excited about, whether that's new tech or ways to improve how we work.
What we're looking for
Someone with:
- Experience in ecommerce, and with Shopify and/or BigCommerce specifically
- Confidence working across the technical space each project needs
- The ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly
- An eye for detail and genuine care about the quality of their work
- The ability to solve problems independently, and some experience supporting other developers
- The ability to explain technical information simply and clearly, including to non-technical people
- A habit of keeping their own knowledge current, and sharing what they learn with the rest of us
Norton Loxley are advertising this role on behalf of We are Strawberry as their HR partner. Please note that by applying for this role, you are consenting for your data to be processed and shared with We are Strawberry who may contact you directly throughout the recruitment process. If you have any queries regarding the role, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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