Shopify Developer

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

Job Description

SquareShift is a fast-growing cloud consulting company, solving cloud challenges through excellence in technology, thought leadership, and quality in execution. We are based in Singapore, with a world-class engineering team in India. 

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we are a team of tech-enthusiasts who have strong expertise in enterprise product development and cloud technologies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in building and designing SaaS based web applications.
• Proven backend development skills with experience in a language like Ruby
• Knowledge of open-source technologies such as Apache, Solr, Lucene, Elastic Search, Memcached.
• Experience working with Product Management to build and release products in an agile environment.
• You are familiar with SDLC tools like Ant, Maven, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Travis, Puppet, Ansible, Docker.
• You have some knowledge around how AWS services and deployments work.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and can explain complex problems to technical

Benefits

Why SquareShift?

We firmly believe that our growth, long term success & wellbeing as an organization are a direct outcome of the culture and teamwork. At SquareShift, you can expect,

• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment, and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and allowances for professional development 
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge

Website - squareshift.co

 Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions.

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter)
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object - oriented PHP programming

If you believe in “ First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. ”, we are looking for you. 

• Atleast 4 - 6 years of experience working Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to manage a team.
• Very good at Analysis and Design.
• Passion to write good quality code.
• Able to work in a fast paced environment.
• Able to manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment
• Team player
• Ability to balance competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills.

BoTree Technologies was incorporated in 2012 and since then we have constantly worked towards building a place to work which provides each member an opportunity to challenge herself and grow on a day to day basis.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

● Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
● Contribute to building an agile environment
● Test your code
● Engaged in all aspects of product development and will be working closely with product management, operations, client-engineering and customer success teams
● Working with an exceptional team to help scale a fast-paced business.
● Ability to work independently on challenging compound problems as well as collaborating with other team members to solve major goals
● Present complex ideas and approaches in simple communicable terms across engineering and management levels
● Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems


Required Qualifications 

● Ruby on Rails (6+ years)
● PostgreSQL or MySQL
● JavaScript and AngularJS (or other client-side frameworks like Ember, Backbone, etc)
● Test-driven development with RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine
● Git, Continuous Integration, AWS, etc
● Bonus points for SaaS experience