A brilliant opportunity to develop a career in ecommerce within a vibrant and industry-leading ecommerce agency.
As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be expected to problem-solve independently, adapt quickly, and actively contribute to delivering exceptional results for our clients without the need for support or supervision.
Responsibilities
You'll be expected to:
- Provide innovative and adaptable approaches to problems
- Build and maintain ecommerce websites on Shopify
- Occasionally scope and create bespoke Shopify applications for clients
- Be able to adapt quickly and overcome challenges you may encounter while working on development tasks
- Effectively communicate the status of tasks with other team members including our design, marketing and operations teams.
- Promote consistency of work across all web development clients
- Support with migrating data from existing ecommerce platforms to Shopify
Must haves
- Strong understanding of HTTP and client side and server side interactions
- Good understanding of relational databases such as MySQL, MariaDB etc.
- Experience with third party integrations using GraphQL API's
- Ability to effectively write database queries with and without the aid of query builder tools.
- A desire to advance your knowledge and a general willingness to learn new technologies / programming languages with minimal support
- Good understanding of Shopify's Liquid templating language for Shopify theme development
Good to have
- Familiarity with managing Linux based web servers using SSH
- Experience writing one-use scripts to automate tasks
- Experience managing AWS EC2 instances and S3 storage
- Understanding of Wordpress development
- Experience with modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel
- Experience with CSS preprocessors such as SCSS
- Previous experience working with balancing projects simultaneously
Culturally
- Professional and well organised
- Passionate about the online world
- Good Communication & team skills
- Motivated to learn and improve themselves and those around them
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to help us grow our development team and to be involved in a number of exciting projects.