UI Developer

Job description

Suntek.ai is at the forefront of helping eCommerce businesses optimize their operations through advanced AI solutions and comprehensive eCommerce store management. Our goal is to empower online retailers with state-of-the-art technology that enhances efficiency and drives growth role

Overview: We are seeking a talented Frontend Shopify Developer to join our team. In this role, you will focus on creating seamless and visually appealing Shopify storefronts while optimizing the user experience. You will collaborate with designers, developers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality eCommerce solutions that drive engagement and sales.

Key Responsibilities• Design, develop, and implement custom Shopify themes and templates.

• Optimize the user experience for Shopify storefronts using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Shopify’s Liquid templating language.

• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to ensure the visual and functional integrity of Shopify stores.

• Ensure Shopify stores are mobile-responsive, cross-browser compatible, and SEO-friendly.

• Integrate and customize third-party Shopify apps to meet client requirements.

• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve front-end issues for existing Shopify stores.

• Stay up-to-date with Shopify platform updates, tools, and best practices in front-end development.

Requirements•

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• • Experience: 1-2 years of experience working as a Frontend Developer with Shopify.
• • Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript , and Shopify’s Liquid templating language.
• • Experience working with Shopify’s theme development environment and Shopify CLI.
• • Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for Shopify storefronts.
• • Basic understanding of SEO principles and web accessibility standards.
• • Proficiency with version control tools like Git.
• - Knowledge of Shopify theme architecture
• - use of Metafield, Metaobject and their differences
• - Template creation with dynamic sections and blocks
• - Theme/Liquid code customization
• - Cart drawer/mini cart implement through liquid & JS
• - QuickView implementation
• - Third party API implementation in Liquid
• - GTM & GA integration with events
• - Shopify pixels (Customer events)
• - Checkout customization
• - Knowledge of Checkout ExtensionSkills should have - Shopify, Shopify plus, JS, JS Dom manipulation, API integration, Git, Shopify CLI.
• • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Nice-to-Have Skills
• • Knowledge of animations and transitions for enhanced user interactions.
• • Familiarity with back-end basics for collaboration with full-stack developers.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary

• Remote work flexibility with a supportive and collaborative team culture.

• Opportunities to work on innovative eCommerce projects with a global impact.

• Support for professional growth through training and development programs.

• Exposure to cutting-edge technology in the eCommerce domain.

Experience  4-6 yrs (Sr developer ) 6-8 yrs (Lead)

Responsibilities

• Interact closely with design, product, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules and maintainability of the code.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• Review and Optimize application usage, by monitoring key metrics, for maximum speed and scalability
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, Angular Developer or front-end engineer.
• Sound knowledge in HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system
• Proficient with Typescript (Angular 2 & above)
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system.
• Passionate to create good design and usability
• A team player with excellent communication skills

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.

Position: React JS Developer

Location: Chennai/Bangalore

Experience: 3-5 Years

Job Responsibilities:

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using React concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following React.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborating with other team members.
• Supporting software deployment and provide post production support (as and when needed)
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience developing and implementing software applications.
• Previous experience working as a React.js Developer.
• Knowledge in e-Commerce domain will be a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
• Experience with REST API's 
• In-depth understanding of Javascript, the DOM, and relevant concepts.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token. 
• Experience with user interface design.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Github.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

• 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

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

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

Role and Responsibilities

• Making technology work for small holder farmers is the primary function of this team, the individual joining this team should be self-driven towards creating impact.
• A keen listener and has a pro-active approach to problem solving.
• Should understand the role of digital transformation in a company’s journey.
• An individual who follows technological advancements closely and thinks of new and innovative use cases that such technology can solve.
• Having previous experience in product management and/or platform development projects is a plus.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and software configuration management tools preferred.
• The candidate should demonstrate high bias-for-action and should drive results that matter to the function and to the entire organisation.
• Build from ground up, a scalable server infrastructure and client applications.
• Design, develop and deploy features and consume APIs with high quality standards.
• Manage the infrastructure hosted in the cloud.
• Contribute significantly in reviewing code, design & test-cases authored by peers.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• 2-6 years experience of design and development experience building scalable & distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from reputed institutes.

SKILLS

• Agile Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle and Software Configuration Management
• Excellent coding, debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience on the following tech stacks:
  ReactJs, NodeJs, TypeScript, PostgresSQL/MongoDB, Nginx, Pm2, Redis, Bootstrap, CSS
• Knowledge of Microservices and REST APIs.
• Must have: Experience with managing server infra in hybrid cloud AWS & GCP.
• Must Have: Very good understanding of OOPS and design patterns.
• Nice to have: Hands-on-experience with analytics using ELK stack/ Mixpanel.

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.