Sr. Software Engineer/Lead

JOB TITLE - SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Roles and Responsibilities

·      Developing Content Management System.

·      Designing and building the website front-end.

·      You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress themes and plugins as well as site integration and security updates.

·      Building wireframes and designs for website before execution.

·      Ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience, Able to interact with team and understand functional requirements and create design documents for new features.

·      To work in teams alongside back-end developers, graphic designers, and user experience designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent.

·      Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages for e.g., HTML, CSS, JS

·      Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team.

·      Troubleshooting content issues.

·      Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end

·      Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

·      Conducting website performance tests.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

·      Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.

·      Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.

·      Experience designing and developing responsive design websites.

·      Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.

·      Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, and SVN.

·      Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.

·      Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.

·      Excellent communication and teamwork skills

·      Great attention to detail

·      Organizational skills

·      An analytical mind

KEY RESULT AREAS FOR THE ROLE

·      Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.

·      Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages.

·      Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

·      Accessibility and performance optimizations of websites across devices.

·      Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

• Work with design and marketing team to improve website conversion rate for different sign up processes
• Work with the marketing team to improve main website KPIs - New users, average time on page, session duration are the main ones
• Write automation scripts to help automate redundant manual processes of other marketing functions– SEO, Outbound, Content, Product Marketing
• Work on our Shopify demo store to showcase new product releases and features. This is pretty interesting as you’ll get to play around with Shopify backend (the most popular eCommerce platform in the world)
• Work on building integrations and workflows between different marketing automation platforms. Our current marketing tech stack involves Salesforce, HubSpot, Reply, Similarweb and more.
• Web scraping for new growth initiatives

SUMMARY:

Seeking individuals with demonstrated experience in Back-End Web Development

responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your

primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the

central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the

front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements of our AI SaaS

application modules and solve revenue-growth problems, at the intersection of demand and

supply, which are faced by the Fortune 1000 CPG/FMCG companies.

Frontend Engineer - (6-10 years’ experience)

As a Front End Web Engineer you will be responsible for building the next generation of user experiences. We need a highly motivated and skillful engineer to work with HTML, Typescript/JavaScript, and CSS/Sass and related tooling, frameworks, and libraries. Attention to detail and a dedication to deliver a high-quality, stable delivery is essential.

If you want to be part of this amazing team, this position is for you.

Key Skills:

• Proficient in at least one JavaScript framework like Angular, React, VueJS, or equivalent
• Proficient in Typescript, HTML, CSS3 usage in building large scale applications
• Expertise in front-end design and JavaScript libraries such as AngularJS, ReactJS, jQuery, and VueJS
• Passion for building a rich and innovative user experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and problem solving
• Experience in Single Page Application architecture

Description:

• Build pixel-perfect, robust and, accessible user interfaces on the web
• Drive independently a project from inception to production deployment with a strong focus on performance and robustness
• Follow our software development process including writing unit tests, perform code reviews etc.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to develop features
• Provide support for production deployments
• Demonstrate ability to deliver results on time with high quality
• Experience handling distributed vendor resources

Who we are

Jivox is transforming the way the world experiences digital marketing. We connect brands with their audiences in the most personalized way: using big data, AI/machine learning, Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), customer journey optimization, and identity technologies to deliver omni-channel precision marketing.

Recognized as a leader in creative advertising technologies by Forrester Research, Jivox delivers 1:1 messaging throughout the customer journey, seamlessly linking paid and owned media. Our portfolio of global clients includes the likes of Marriott, Mazda, Unilever, Nestle, IBM, Vodafone, and Heineken.

A Powerful Dynamic Creative Personalization platform serves millions of ad impressions a day and evaluates 30 billion+ rules / day. Our proprietary machine learning technology, powers personalization in real-time, creates personalized experiences across all channels including display, video, native and social.

Experience: 2 to 5 years of experience

Relevant experience in Javascript: Min 1 year

Must Have

• Hands-on in HTML5 and CSS3 and JavaScript
• Knowledge of jQuery, GreenSock, JSON and XML
• Good to have cross-browser / Cross-platform compatibility knowledge.
• Unit testing skills
• Debugging skills
• Know how to slice and dice images using Photoshop
• Should able to write the code using the mentioned technologies and should be able to debug over multiple OS across browsers

Good to Have

• Experience in PHP, MySQL
• Knowledge of Adobe Animate (Canvas)
• Knowledge of Adobe Edge
• Knowledge of Google Web Designer (GWD)
• Knowledge in Digital Marketing

Soft Skills requirement:

• Excellent and effective communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Be flexible and approachable at all times.

Education: Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field.

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.

• 3 to 5 years of experience in UI Development and hands on experience on Angular2 or Angular 2+, Node etc.
• Exposure to cross browser compatibility issues, SCSS as the CSS macro-processor, sprites etc.
• Experience with Jira, SVN, Git will be added advantage
• Passionate and eager to learn new technologies
• Intimately knowledgeable about all things web and mobile
• Demo able portfolio on website or GitHub will be given preference
• Must have knowledge on Java script, jQuery, ECMAScript
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript
• Familiarities with modern JavaScript tools, like npm and webpack
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience building JavaScript/CSS Frameworks or shared component libraries used in large scale production websites.
• Understands frontend software design patterns (e.g. asynchronicity, data binding, modules, objects, promises).
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns

Requirements

• Convert design to Angular 5 components
• Use SCSS as the CSS macroprocessor
• Integrate the Angular services with APIs from the backend team
• Implement UI development best practices to write optimized and non-buggy code
• Work in Agile environment with sprint releases ranging from 2 to 4 weeks
• Feasibility study of requirement and suggest multiple approaches for a problem after sufficient RnD
• Keep abreast with trending recent UI tools, technologies, plugins and software in the industry
• “Roll-up your sleeves” attitude to get things done
• Test your screens using a tool for all browsers and resolution compatibility
• Handle and track tasks assigned using Agile methodology
• Strong commitment towards quality and schedule.
• Cross team coordination

What you need to have:

Experience: 2 to 7 years