Developer - Shopify

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About Us

Very Great is a New York-based company launch platform, building next-generation consumer brands. Founded in 2016 by Eric Prum and Josh Williams, Very Great empowers passionate entrepreneurs with best-in-class creative, manufacturing, sales and marketing infrastructure to rapidly develop, launch and scale digitally-native consumer product brands. The current family of brands include W&P, Courant and Wild One, with future brand launches under development.

About the Role

Very Great is looking for a talented Senior Front End Developer to join our Web Services team and lead in creating best in class web experiences for our brands across mobile and desktop. As a Senior Front End Developer you will help build, user-test, iterate and maintain high quality code and user features on our Shopify and WordPress websites. You’ll have a desire to mentor and develop junior team members and will establish best coding standards and practices. You are constantly curious, passionate about user experience, a strategic and solutions-oriented problem solver and you thrive working in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.

This is a full time role based in-house in New York City and reports into the Director of Web Services. 

Responsibilities

  • Develop, user-test, iterate and maintain clean and functional code on our Shopify and WordPress websites

  • Effectively translate website wireframes or mockups that align, optimize and elevate our customers user experience with our products

  • Optimize web features for maximum performance across a wide range of web-enabled devices and browsers

  • Identify, translate and structure the breakdown of project workflow for your own work, team members and brand team timelines

  • Mentor, train and develop team members on current websites, project work and on the latest relevant technology advancements

  • Drive and improve coding quality across the Web Services team

  • Proactively and consistently identify areas of improvement across our websites

  • Test and optimize sites for cross-browser and cross-device compatibility

  • Work collaboratively across brand and creative teams to assist with strategy and development of new websites, features and campaigns

About You

  • 5+ years experience. At least two years in a Senior Front End Developer position

  • E-commerce experience required

  • Domain expertise in React.js, Shopify and WordPress

  • Skilled at integrating latest front end technologies (React, Vue.js) with Shopify

  • Strong design instincts and enjoys working collaboratively with a team of designers

  • Highly detailed oriented and thrives in a fast paced environment

  • Savvy at managing multiple, concurrent running projects 

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Effective problem solving, analytical and debugging skills

  • Working knowledge and experience with the following technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, Shopify or WordPress, Ruby, AJAX, JSON, React.js, and Web Animation (CSS transitions, @keyframe animations, JavaScript animations)

  • Familiarity with Headless Website development and architecture

*This role will begin working remotely and move onsite when our office reopens.

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Location

875 Washington Street, New York, NY 10014

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