Position: Senior Shopify Engineer - USA
Company: Simplify
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

About us

We’re a creative team of marketers, designers, developers, and copywriters, who are focused on solving business problems by making simple, but effective websites & mobile apps.

Our job is to eliminate barriers, misunderstandings, and unawareness between a product and a consumer. We make their ways to each other simple.

Simplify. Your way to Greatness.

About customer & project:

We have a request from our potential client in the USA.  The customer is looking for a Senior Shopify Dev with good spoken English. Below, we propose to consider detailed requirements and a description of the client's company:

The Role:‍

We are looking for a Front-end Engineer to work in a very friendly and relaxed environment and be part of a well-motivated, talented, and growing team. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of work experience developing in Shopify/Shopify Plus. This is an opportunity to have direct input into the creation of foundational processes and systems that shape the future of the business and scale our e-commerce platform globally.

Technology:

We're on a mission to build the technology that powers the global platform for cycling apparel brands and independent bike shops. We operate a modular end-to-end technology platform to connect the cycling industry ecosystem worldwide, addressing complex challenges and enjoying it.

Skills required: 

- Shopify — 5+ years of professional experience
- Strong proficiency with Shopify+
- Professional API experience
- Solid grasp of web design (pixel perfect)
- Proficient with ruby, php, java
- Proficient with Shopify’s Liquid, HTML/CSS
- Experience with Webflow (preferred)

What we look for:

Good written and verbal communications
- Strong analytical and critical thinking
- Experience working with agile / scrum / kanban methodologies 
- Skills to work in a dynamic and team oriented environment
- Experience working in an agile startup enviorment
- Good project and time-management skills
- Keen eye for aesthetic design
- Exceptional attention to detail

1.Do we have any deadlines here?

We’re ready start as soon as possible. Our only deadline for the short-term is to launch our MVP by the end of the month. The design and functionality is already built on Webflow (https://webflow.com/) but would need to be migrated to Shopify. 

2. What is the approximate project duration?

We’re talking about an ongoing project so essentially we’re looking to build our tech team, starting with 1 developer for the first 2 months and then add more developers to the team as we enter the next phases of the product.


3. Could you please share some more information on the type of tasks and set of responsibilities for the developer. 

As mentioned above, most of the work in the first phase of the product launch is to migrate all Webflow pages to Shopify. Most of the work and tasks requires front-end development in a Shopify environment. It will also require to write scripts in Java and PHP and build integration between the different tools we use with REST API (Shopify+).

Interview process:
- Internal tech interview 
- 1 call with Nave - tech questions
- Tech test - very quick and simple - 20/30 minutes - online
Team at Customer side: ideally by the end of the year - dedicated team of 4-5 people + PM/PO

Team structure at Client side: no tech team - all project was done by Nave

Duration:  6-12 months