Frontend Developer

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled Shopify App Developer with experience in React/Remix and a strong foundation in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining custom Shopify applications, enhancing user interfaces, and ensuring seamless e-commerce experiences for our clients. This role requires a strong understanding of Shopify’s ecosystem, combined with frontend development skills to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• React Develop, test, and maintain custom Shopify apps to enhance store functionality.
• Collaborate with the design and product teams to implement responsive and user-friendly UI/UX features.
• Utilize React and Remix frameworks to build dynamic, interactive web applications.
• Write clean, modular, and scalable code using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Integrate third-party APIs and manage data securely within Shopify.
• Optimize applications for speed and scalability across various devices and browsers.
• Stay updated on Shopify platform updates, best practices, and industry trends.
• Develop, test, and maintain custom Shopify apps to enhance store functionality.
• Collaborate with the design and product teams to implement responsive and user-friendly UI/UX features.
• Utilize React and Remix frameworks to build dynamic, interactive web applications.
• Write clean, modular, and scalable code using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Integrate third-party APIs and manage data securely within Shopify.
• Optimize applications for speed and scalability across various devices and browsers.
• Stay updated on Shopify platform updates, best practices, and industry trends.

● Developing new user-facing features using React.js

● Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

● Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code

● Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

● A knack for benchmarking and optimization

● Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

• Build fast and efficient next-generation web applications
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones
• Collaborate with Designers to iterate on the design
• Work closely with Backend Engineers to integrate APIs and other services
•  Find and address performance issues
• Identify and communicate front-end best practices
• Customer-focused, whether responding to support queries or developing new features and functionality.
• Able to provide constructive feedback and effectively review code, guiding other UI engineers in the right direction

• 3+ years of experience in UI/frontend development.
• Hands-on experience using React as a front-end development framework.
• Sound knowledge of front-end development languages, tools and methodologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and associated technologies and toolsets (e.g. jQuery, Sass)
• Able to write front-end code that is cross-browser and cross-device friendly, through responsive or adaptive techniques is essential.
• Working knowledge of AWS for product development and deployment is preferred
• Experience using Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) systems for development and deployment.
• Proven knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Design and code features for the website application as per the specifications provided by the Product and Design teams.
• Ship features in fast-moving agile sprints.
• Work closely with Backend, Product Design, and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion

Must have:

• Good understanding of Javascript and Clean architecture.
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, callback, and closures.
• Strong experience with Javascript frontend framework/libraries like ReactJS
• Understanding of stateless application
• Good knowledge of CSS and its pre-processors like SASS/LESS
• Good understanding of server-side templates.
• Experience with creating cross-browser compatible web apps
• Should be Strong in MySql / Postgres database.
• Stronghold in Data structure and processing JSON

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of CI, CD
• Intermediate knowledge in any cloud services(AWS, GCP)
• Familiar with testing frameworks like Mocha, Cypress

https://polyglots.io">Polyglots is a young and innovative software development agency located in Pune, India. Our expertise is to build highly scalable applications and infrastructure solutions for our partners and budding startups.

We provide end-to-end solutions ranging from cloud architecture to backend services and modern frontend development. We leverage agile methodologies, software life cycle best practices and cutting edge technology to deliver perfect solutions reflecting our passion for software development.

We care about our company culture and invest in people to create the best teams of highly skilled developers. 

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
  
  

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript. Familiarity with ES6 or Typescript would be a plus.

• Good understanding of Angular or React.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and Rest APIs.
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN.
• Working knowledge of server side technologies is a plus