Junior Front-End Developer - Shopify

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote within Canada

Our ideal candidate is a keen web developer with a passion for the work they produce, a drive to grow their knowledge and experience, and possesses the ability to clearly communicate technical requirements and challenges. You will work closely with a team of strategists, designers, and experienced developers to create leading ecommerce experiences that are user-focused, beautiful and engaging, highly performant, and written with future reuse and maintainability in mind.

• Implement the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required to develop and maintain Shopify themes and dynamic storefront experiences.
• Write clean semantic code, emphasizing performance, usability, and accessibility.
• Leverage and develop reusable component-based code.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including developers, designers, and project managers.
• Learn from experienced developers and career growth mentors.
• Work in agile sprints and participate in daily project stand-ups (via Zoom).
• Perform cross-device QA testing to support multiple browsers and device types.

• Recent web development education and/or related work experience.
• Understanding of modern front-end development techniques and solutions.
• Experienced with development in the Shopify ecosystem.
• Knowledge of component-based or “atomic design” principles.
• Knowledge of source control and code management via Git.

• Strong oral and written communication skills with the confidence to ask questions and work collaboratively to resolve challenges.
• Comfortable presenting your knowledge and ideas in a remote working environment.
• Openly share your passion for development in both your coding ability and personality.
• Actively contribute to ways we can improve the lives of our clients and team.

• Competitive health benefits plan.
• Remote work environment.
• Remote work allowance.
• Professional development allowance.
• Career and personal growth coaching.
• Quarterly goal setting and bi-weekly 1:1s.
• Minimum 3 weeks vacation.
• Additional bonus company-wide holidays.
• Reduced “Summer hours”.
• Educational Lunch & Learns.

• Your choice of IDE (Sublime Text, VS Code, etc.)
• Webpack
• SCSS
• NPM
• Codeship (CI/CD automation)
• AWS (NodeJS via Lambda, OpsWorks hosting infrastructure)
• GitHub
• Slack
• Asana
• Figma
• Zoom

Please include a resume and cover letter that references at least 1 sample of your front-end development work (portfolio link, GitHub repo, case study of your contributions to a team project, etc.).