Description
E-commerce Front End Developer
Inside IR35 - Remote or Hybrid working available
Our client, a global media organisation is in the process f migrating from a Legacy platform to Shopify and are looking for an experienced E-commerce Front End Developer to join on an initial 12-month contract. Using your eComm UX & design skills you will build out mobile first eComm experiences for customers and retail brands that help to deliver engaging Front End experiences that help eCommerce conversions.
Skills required:
- Excellent HTML/CSS/JS (or similar) knowledge
- Strong proficiency in modern design patterns
- Implementing mobile first, responsive web design principles
- Able to work with the team to research requirements and if required write specifications for technical implementation and support UAT
- General code and feature maintenance - Issue tracking and improvements to existing store features
- Experience creating and editing themes
- Comfortable with version control, issue trackers and project management tools
- Liaise and build good working relationships with all internal and external contacts including Store Managers, Developers, Labels and as appropriate artist management
- Provide support and training to store managers/stakeholders on store building procedures and advice on best practice and develop relevant documentation resources as required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to understand, explain and communicate technical concepts to various business units
- Customer-first mentality with ability to empathise and create customer loyalty
- Support the store operations team in production launches and daily troubleshooting
- Solid grounding on common Front End design & development patterns and best practices
- Collaborate with store manager/developer and develop performance optimizations, improve UX and accessibility
- Experience creating and editing themes and/or sites for platforms like Shopify with a good knowledge of webstore CMS (or similar) and actions
- Experience of using a CSS style editor (or similar) to theme template or handling code updates with store and template code.
Desirable skills;
- Knowledge of Shopify and its templating language (Liquid) to design and build E-comm themes, build new feature sets and interfaces ( or similar)
- Knowledge of APIs, webhooks, and general data transfer approaches
- Demonstrable eCommerce platform Front End experience
- A good understanding of SEO and page optimisation
- Understanding of DNS, being able to support senior devs with managing store domain operations (DNS updates, SSL orders and installation or similar)
- Working knowledge of E-commerce technology landscape and associated stacks (shopping cart, API integrations, OMS, IMS, WMS, credit card processing, digital distribution etc)
- Commercial experience coding modern HTML, CSS & Javascript ( or similar) and good understanding of modern design patterns
- Experience with version control systems (Bitbucket/GitHub), issue trackers and project management tools
- Shopify theme development & liquid templating language
- Project mgmt tool experience and working in an agile way with Kanban method/framework
E-commerce Front End Developer
Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.
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