Position
Our Front-End Engineers help build and maintain interactive ecommerce stores for our clients and their customers. They work with our Project Managers and other engineers to deliver quality websites on the BigCommerce platform. They bring their platform expertise to solve challenging client challenges on a daily basis. We’re looking for individuals who thrive in dynamic environments, embrace processes and organization, are detail-oriented, and enjoy using data to inform their decision-making.
Responsibilities and duties
- Properly submits pull requests with code fulfilling a ticket’s acceptance criteria.
- Communicate any blockers, progress, and statuses regarding a ticket.
- Uses best practices regarding accessibility, site performance, & SEO.
- Uses HTML, CSS, JS to create BigCommerce web elements matching client-approved designs and functionality.
- Creates test cases for completed work to pass on to QA.
Qualifications and skills
- Possesses a wide breadth of knowledge regarding standards-compliant HTML, CSS & Javascript, including responsive design techniques, performance implications of CSS / CSS Animations & JavaScript.
- Has done stencil template development on 3 or more prior projects and can submit a small portfolio of recent work and/or a code sample as proof.
- Knowledgeable of modern CSS concepts such as Grid CSS and Flexbox. Experience with Vue.js or React.js is a plus.
- Has an understanding of web standards and accessibility
- Experienced in integrating external web services, such as SOAP, REST, or Graph QL APIs, is recommended.
- Comfortable using software development management tools like the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) or a similar set of applications.
- Familiarity with using Git to create branches and push new code changes and can create pull requests for the technical lead to code review.
- Demonstrates a proven track record of following through with deadlines and keeping on top of new tasks.
What we offer
- A decent salary level which allows you to think about our mutual success and not about tomorrow.
- Flexible working hours. You create your own schedule. Important part though: most of our clients are from US, so be ready for occasional evening calls.
- Possibility to work remotely. You prefer home office or traveling around? Easy, that's exactly how we operate.
