Senior Shopify Engineer

The role

A senior Shopify front-end engineer will build high-performing, accessible, and responsive Shopify themes and reusable components. You will collaborate with design, marketing, and technology stakeholders to turn complex requirements into user experiences that boost conversions.

What you will do

• Creating high quality production-ready front-end code with Shopify
• Creating reusable Shopify components and theme areas
• Driving quality in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, and code reviews
• Ensuring smooth connection with Marketing Tools, Platform APIs, and Shopify Apps
• Contributing to Agile workstreams including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and estimates
• Building modular layouts, reusable code, and libraries
• Representing front-end in a client-facing capacity
• Working with design teams to create optimal front-end user experiences
• Collaborating with colleagues to escalate issues and highlight areas for team action
• Providing full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, including maintenance and scaling

Required qualifications

• Mastery of semantic HTML5, CSS3 (SASS or LESS) and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodology
• Extensive experience with the Shopify platform and the Liquid templating engine
• Expertise in all aspects of the Shopify ECommerce platform
• Extensive testing and debugging abilities using the browser console and other tools
• Knowledge of front-end architecture, performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, security and usability
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficient understanding of fluid responsive layouts, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility
• Commercial experience of unit testing, End to end testing, and regression testing
• Experience implementing and debugging third-party Shopify apps
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Grunt and webpack

Nice to have

• Commercial experience in building headless solutions e.g. SPA and/or PWA applications
• Experience in building rapid prototypes
• Experience with a Type Checking language such as Flow or TypeScript
• Experience of working on Java/Node/C#/PHP projects
• Experience of mentoring junior members of the team

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with exciting brands
• Prioritised career development
• Help to grow your skills

About the company

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates growth systems for competitive businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.