Junior Full-Stack 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. Our projects tend to have a large Front-End component, so you will get to exercise the full breadth of your full-stack knowledge. 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.
• Identify and develop reusable patterns with component-based code.
• Research, test, and setup Shopify apps.
• Develop integrations with Shopify apps and other 3rd-party platforms.
• 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.
• Maintain build tools and automate processes

• Experience as a full-stack developer or similar role.
  
• Demonstrated understanding of modern full-stack development techniques and solutions.
• Familiarity with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Comfort working with back-end technologies like NodeJS, AWS, and databases.
• Experienced with component-based or “atomic design” principles.
• Experienced with templating languages (Liquid, Twig, or similar).
• Knowledge of source control and code management via Git.

• Agency experience
• Experience in the Shopify ecosystem: theming, CMS customization, etc.
• Experience with the Shopify APIs
• Familiarity with “headless” web development and related processes (e.g. React, Shopify Hydrogen)
• Familiarity with webhooks and serverless implementation (NodeJS)
• Familiarity with data migrations (ETL - Extract/Transform/Load), scripting and spreadsheet manipulation
• Familiarity setting up tracking pixels and integrating with analytics tools like Google Analytics, GTM
• Experience with Webpack
• Experience with CI/CD processes
• Experience with writing modern CSS including CSS Grid, Flexbox
• Experience with writing solid and well-crafted JavaScript (vanilla, ES6)
• Familiarity with developing for performance, accessibility, and technical SEO

• Strong oral and written communication skills with the confidence to ask questions and work collaboratively to resolve challenges.
• The ability to learn quickly.
• The ability to multitask. We work on multiple projects at once and you may need to jump between them.
• 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 (e.g. serverless backend via NodeJS on AWS Lambda)
• GitHub
• Slack
• Asana
• Figma
• Zoom

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