Shopify Developer

Wordpress:

Should have hands-on experience in WordPress & HOOKS concepts.

Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins.

- Knowledge of Customization of themes & plugins

- Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level.

- Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.

- Theme Template integration.

- Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.

- Experience in developing E-Commerce websites

Shopify:

Should have hands-on experience in Shopify API & APP concepts.

Extensive knowledge and experience of building custom stores.

- Knowledge of Customization of themes & apps

- Experience working with Shopify API's

- Knowledge of existing inbuilt Shopify system.

- Theme Template integration.

- Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues

6+ years of experience developing on Shopify’s eCommerce platform including customization of various themes using Liquid

● 6+ years of experience in front-end technologies including JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and GraphQL.

● Superb troubleshooting & debugging skills.

● Interest in staying current and applying the most current best practices.

● Able to work effectively in a fluid, fast-paced environment. ● Experience working with many cross functional partners to drive complex projects forward. ● Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in a dynamic and disruptive environment.

● A disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.

● Positive Attitude, high energy, and love for broadening web development skill set. ● Proficient in co-coordinating with teams and clients across different time zones. ● Familiar with JIRA, ConfluenceKnowledge in other ecommerce platforms such as BigCommerce orCommercetools is big plus

Responsibilities :

- Assist in requirements gathering and technical planning to design solutions that meet client needs

- Create clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code with an eye towards performance optimization

- Actively troubleshoot and support applications in production-- critical environments

- Implement and maintain Shopify development standards and best practices

- Tracks the work against plan and reports the status on agreed time without fail.

- Interface with the clients to understand and document their needs.

Primary Technical Skills:

Shopify and Shopify Plus

PHP

OOPS

JavaScript

XML

JSON

Basic Knowledge in React JS

Soft Skills

• Good oral and written communication.

Required Skills:

- 3 to 5 years of experience in working with Shopify and Shopify Plus stores

- Good  knowledge of frontend development and liquid programming language

- Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.

- Basic experience in writing Ruby scripts to run promotions

- Experience in integrating external API’s

- Experience in 3^rd party integrations like ERP- Netsuite, SAP, Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Epicor etc.
- Experience in Implementing Shopify Ajax API, Admin APIs and configuring third party apps

- Knowledge of building custom, private and embedded apps

- Experience working with the following technologies: JavaScript (JQuery), XML, JSON, SQL, PHP, CSS3

- Knowledge in other ecommerce platforms like Magento, woocommerce, BigCommerce will be preferred.

- Experience with OOP PHP (2+ years)

- Familiarity with GIT

- Demonstrated ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience levels

- Ability to work with minimal direction with a focus on customer satisfaction

- Good written and verbal communication skills

• Collaborating with the UX and UI design teams to produce seamless, robust and innovative front-end user experiences
• Working closely with Project Managers to deploy project requirements
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously and be able to address their specific needs and requirements at a moment's notice
• Understanding business needs that drive project features and functions and provide internal consultation

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Programming or a similar field
• 2+ years of experience developing within the Shopify and Shopify Plus platforms
• 2+ years of experience in front-end technologies including, but not limited to, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, SASS, XML
• Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Interest in staying current and applying the most current best practices
• Ability to work effectively in a fluid, fast-paced environment
• A true passion for design and technology
• A disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Positive attitude, high energy, and love for broadening web development skill set    

• Creating a WordPress plugin with WordPress coding standard and themes, contributed plugins over wordpress.org is a big plus.
  

• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).
  

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial.
  

• Strong Knowledge in Woo commerce, Yost SEO, ACF.
  

• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.  
  

We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer/Shopify App Developer who has experience working with the Shopify platform and is able to work on a Shopify app.

Your Daily Challenges

When we welcome you aboard we’ll introduce you to your Team, which consists of a front-end developer, a Shopify App Marketer who grew 2 apps to million dollar annual revenue, and a product manager.

These are the people you’ll work closely with on Product development day-to-day. Once you get settled in and learn more about the team, your day to day activities will look something like this:

1. Own the end-to-end development cycle for the Shopify app you’ll be working on.
2. Coordinate with fellow developers to get things done on time. 
3. Implement high quality code in an agile, test driven development environment
4. Review exception reports to identify and fix bugs
5. Development of new apps and features
6. Maintenance of existing features
7. Collaboration with cross-functional teams
8. Contributions of ideas to improve the product

Your Experience

1. 3-5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with Shopify app development
3. Familiar with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL
4. Good understanding of HTML and CSS (positioning and styling)
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Takes pride in writing clean, organized, efficient code
7. An eye for detail
8. Experience with vanilla JavaScript and React a plus
9. Experience working in an entrepreneurial/startup environment

Your Compensation

1. The compensation range for this role is INR 14-18 LPA (~25K USD) + up to 5% equity.
2. The compensation varies with experience and qualifications. 
3. This is a full-time remote/work from home position.

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