Senior Front-End Developer

• Employment Type: Full-time
  
• Location: Remote within Canada
• Salary: CAD$90-110K

iamota is a leading Shopify Plus Design and Development Agency Partner. We are looking for our next Senior Front-End Developer to join us on our journey to becoming the top boutique Shopify Plus agency in North America.

What we're looking for

Our ideal candidate is an experienced senior developer with a deep understanding of JavaScript and Shopify Plus, plus the ability to clearly communicate technical requirements and challenges.

As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will define development tasks and approach, explore solutions, and write code for complex ecommerce projects. You will maintain a detailed technical understanding of any projects you’re assigned to and stay on top of the latest digital and ecommerce technologies and techniques. You will work collaboratively with other Functional Teams and present work and possible solutions directly to clients as needed.

What you’ll do

• Write clean and semantic code, emphasizing performance, usability, and accessibility.
  
• Craft technical requirements, write acceptance criteria, and identify risk areas and technical complexities.
• Investigate high-level technical solutions necessary to fully define requirements and create technical design documentation.
• Lead technical aspects of gathering requirements and defining project scope.
• Present work and solutions to clients, explaining technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Share your experience and knowledge with team members on topics related to Shopify development.
• Identify and develop reusable patterns with component-based code that is clearly documented.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including developers, designers, strategists, and project managers.
• Stay up-to-date and make recommendations regarding new web development technologies.
• Work in agile sprints and participate in daily project stand-ups (via Zoom).
• Perform cross-device QA testing to support multiple browsers and device types.

Who we're looking for

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• 3+ years of Shopify Plus development experience and latest related technologies:
  • Shopify APIs (e.g. Ajax, GraphQL, Section Rendering APIs)
  • Liquid templating
• 3+ years of experience with modern development practices
  • Modern JavaScript (ES6, Web components, etc.)
  • Modern CSS (CSS Grid, CSS Variables, etc.)
• Must have agency experience.
  
• 2+ years proven experience in gathering technical requirements and writing detailed technical specifications for projects.
• 1+ years demonstrable experience in integrating and working with third-party APIs.
• 2+ years of experience implementing best practices for web performance optimization, accessibility standards, and technical SEO.
• 1+ years of experience participating in agile working sprints and daily project stand-ups.
• Hands-on experience with Checkout Extensibility
• Experience developing with Shopify CLI and Themekit.
• Proficiency in version control and collaborative development using Git (GitHub).
• Experience using third-party animation and 3D libraries (Greensock, three.js, etc).

SOFT SKILLS

• Experience translating complex technical requirements into digestible summaries for less technical team members and clients.
  
• Able to strategize rapidly and comfortable presenting your knowledge and ideas to others.
• Confident in negotiating compromises between requirements, budget, user experience, and best practices.
• Able to collaborate with other Functional Teams including Design, Strategy, and Project Management.
• Interested in openly sharing your passion for development in both your coding ability and personality.
• Interested and able to contribute to ways we can improve the lives of our clients and team.

PERKS & BENEFITS

• Competitive health benefits plan
• Progressive parental leave policy
• Remote work environment
• Monthly remote work allowance
• Professional development allowance
• Career and professional growth planning
• Bi-annual goal setting and bi-weekly 1:1s
• MacBook (and related peripherals) for business use
• Minimum three (3) weeks vacation
• Additional bonus agency-wide holidays
• Reduced summer hours schedule

OUR PRIMARY TOOL STACK

• VS Code (or preferred IDE)
• Webpack
• SCSS
• NPM
• Codeship (CI/CD automation)
• AWS (e.g. serverless backend via NodeJS on AWS Lambda)
• GitHub
• LambdaTest
• Slack
• Asana
• Figma
• Zoom
• Harvest Time Tracking

Application Process

Please include in your cover letter specific references to your Shopify Plus experience and a project where you played a significant role in solutioning and leading the execution. Please also include at least 3 samples of projects showcasing different technical challenges that you've solved (portfolio link, GitHub repo, reference to your contributions to a team project, etc.).