Frontend Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the marketing team to build high conversion landing pages. Maintain and improve our marketing codebase
• Contribute ideas and efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of the marketing workflows
• Write code using agile methods and tools. Plan, create, and execute (manual and automated) frontend tests.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting-edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors

Required Skills:

• Minimum 2-4 years of experience in Front-end development.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Good knowledge of Node.js and Rest APIs
• Experience in page speed optimization 
• Experience in writing responsive and cross-browser compatible frontend code
• Good understanding of the modern frontend ecosystem.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• You are a self-starter, capable of working independently.
• True love for technology and what you do. 
• Maniacal attention to detail. 

Good to have:

• Experience in WordPress theme development
• Understanding of basic technical SEO principles
• Knowledge of a frontend framework like Angular

• Designing and developing user interfaces using angular best practices.
• Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies.
• Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Developing product analysis tasks.
• Making complex technical and design decisions for Angular projects-

• Your Role and Responsibilities

1. Your main job involves creating new features on the visible parts of a website using React.js.
2. You'll be building reusable components that can be used again in the future, saving time and effort.
3. Designs for the website will be given to you, and you'll convert them into actual working and visually appealing website elements.
4. You'll ensure that the website works smoothly on various devices like phones, tablets, and computers.

• Skills and Traits We're Seeking

1. You have a strong understanding of React.js and its workings.
2. You're skilled in a JavaScript
3. Experience with common React.js workflows like Flux or Redux is important.
4. You're familiar with RESTful APIs.
5. Knowledge of modern security measures like JSON Web Token is important.
6. You're comfortable using tools that streamline the process of building website elements, such as Babel, Webpack, and NPM.
7. Translating business requirements into technical plans for the website comes naturally to you.
8. You've used version control tools like Git or SVN to manage and track changes in code.

• Expected Experience

1. You should have accumulated 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in this field.

As a Mid Level Front-End Developer, you will:

Create well-designed, documented, and tested front end solutions using modern JavaScript frameworks, such as React and Redux, CSS-in-JS, Styled Components, etc.

Collaborate with clients, project managers, UX designers, and other developers to gain a thorough understanding of project requirements within agreed-upon scope and architecture designs

Translate wireframes into fully functional user interfaces and proactively address edge case scenarios

Collaborate with back-end developers to design REST APIs and request/response schemas

Perform code reviews with constructive feedback

Promote clean code, best practices, and consistent design patterns across the team

Write infrastructure as code and automated deployment scripts for customer delivery

Provide development estimates from granular tasks to comprehensive projects/applications

Lead and present technical discussions to clients, including knowledge transfers

Take on additional responsibilities over time and become a key contributor for scaling team size

About Yellow Riddle:

Yellow Riddle is a young, fast-growing, bootstrapped and fun startup with a partly remote team. The founders have both been an active part of the Shopify ecosystem for over two years now consulting over 100+ DTC brands across the globe. We solve complex solutions for our merchants and build best-in-class Shopify websites. Most of our clients are based in the UK, Germany, USA & India.

Check out our website, especially our case studies:

www.yellowriddle.com

About the Role: 

Yellow Riddle is looking for an experienced Front-end Shopify Developer to join our growing team with our increasing volume of Shopify work. Work would be spread across theme customisations, development and more complex migration projects from other CMS platforms to Shopify. One could also expect to be involved in maintenance and iterative site improvements. The key objective of the role is to be able to work on complex project requirements and be able to work across multiple projects.

You'll be a great fit!... if:

• You have strong knowledge in templating languages, and additionally Shopify Templates(Liquid), debugging and front-end skills.
• You know how to set up custom layout/content editors for our clients in Shopify.
• You have hands-on experience with Shopify, including at least two or more large-scale projects.
• You write clean theme code and can add and debug JS.
• You excel working in a remote environment, meaning you’re autonomous, self-driven, responsive, transparent, and self-organised.

Critical Requirements (Must-Haves):

• Minimum 3 years of work experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to demonstrate strong analytical skills & problem solving mindset
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS.
• Knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery
• Ability to develop responsive designs from PSDs, Invision or Adobe XD
• Shopify knowledge & ability to work on theme-kit

Preferred Requirements (Nice to Haves):

• Experience of working on Shopify Plus projects

Candidate Attribute (Culture Fit):

• Willingness to learn.