Wordpress Designer

Position Overview:

As a Shopify Developer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and customization of Shopify themes. Your expertise in HTML5, SASS/CSS3, and JavaScript, coupled with proficiency in VueJS or React, will drive the creation of dynamic and responsive web designs. Operating within EST and GMT work times, you will utilize CI/CD frameworks and pipelines to streamline development processes, emphasizing performance optimization techniques such as FCP, CLS, and LCP. Your familiarity with Shopify site architecture and integration with third-party apps like Algolia and Boost will enable you to implement custom solutions tailored to clients' needs.

Additionally, your strong grasp of Liquid code and Shopify JS APIs will facilitate troubleshooting and resolution of front-end technical challenges, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and adherence to performance budgets. Your ability to work both independently and collaboratively, coupled with a keen attention to detail and problem-solving skills, will be invaluable in driving the success of our projects. While certification and experience with Shopify Plus and API development are advantageous, your dedication to understanding technical architecture and delivering end-to-end project implementations will be key to your success in this role. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Expert in Shopify theme development and customization

• An expertise in HTML5, SASS/CSS3 and JavaScript and expertise with VueJS or React

• Willing to work on EST and GMT work time.

• Experience in CI/CD frameworks and using pipeline.

• Experience in Performance optimization, performance budget, FCP, CLS, LCP

• Experience of Shopify site Architecture and its custom integration with Third party apps like Algolia, Boost etc...

• Working knowledge in code optimization and improving site performance in shopify theme.

• Ability to understand anything that uses JSON REST/ GraphQL API.

• Proficiency in working with different Shopify JS APIs, Strong in Liquid code.

• Offering expertise in troubleshooting and resolution of front-end-related technical problems, guiding the team through complex technical challenges.

• A thorough understanding of Shopify admin/backend system and cross-browser compatibility issues

• A strong understanding of responsive web design techniques

• Should be able to do unit testing.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Required Qualifications:

• Shopify certification

• Experience with Shopify Plus store development.

• Strong in API development and customization, App Development using PHP/Laravel or any scripting language.

• Hands on experience in integrating API/web services.

• Shopify End to end project implementation.

• Ability to understand the technical architecture design of the solution

Responsibilities:

• Must have hands-on working experience in NodeJS with Typescript
• Must have experience of large size product development process
• Must have detailed knowledge of designing and developing performant REST APIs 
• Must have hands-on experience on Postgres DB and MongoDb / any NoSQL DB 
• Must be comfortable working with git and CI CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Should be able to build a new team and work with your engineers and mentor them
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency
• Should be open to learn new domain and work in fast paced environment 
• Responsible to deliver end to end module/product/project scope

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on Nodejs with TypeScript and React JavaScript
• Solid understanding of web application architecture, including RESTful API design and development
• Experience with front-end development using tailwind , bootstrap ,HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, typescript
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Technical:

• Expertise in WordPress customization, development and knowledge of plugins and API integration Should be well versed in WordPress.
• Must have knowledge to create their own theme and able to do customization in existing/premium theme.
• Must have experience of plugin customization and also aware about a new plugin development.
• Must have the Knowledge of existing WordPress’s functions, hooks, plugins.
• Experience in WordPress is mandatory, other Open Sources/frameworks experience would be considered as an added advantage.
• WordPress integration directly from PSD/AI/Sketch would be considered as an added advantage.
• Must have knowledge of basic php and MYSQL concepts.

Non-Technical:

• Interpersonal skills
• Good communication
• Decision making
• Good Team player
• Good Listener

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping to formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

Responsibilities

1-Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

2-Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

3-Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

4-Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.

Skills and Qualifications

1-Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Code igniter, Core PHP depending on your technology stack).

2-Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.

3-Understanding of MVC design patterns.

4-Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Jquery, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS3.

5-Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.

6-Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)

7-Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.

8-User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

9-Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

10-Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.

11-Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

12-Familiarity with SQL/MySQL databases and their declarative query languages