Shopify Architect / Senior Developer - Red Van Workshop

Shopify Architect/Senior Developer

At Red Van, we’ve been enabling commerce-minded businesses with Salesforce technologies for more than 10 years. Working with some of the best brands in the world, we know that nothing matters more than time-to-value, conversion, and lifetime value for B2C and B2B businesses. From omni-channel retail to higher education, brands known around the world to the latest vertically integrated unicorn, Red Van’s team is the best, brightest, and most experienced system integrators in the e-commerce ecosystem.

In your role as a Shopify Architect at Red Van, your main responsibility is delivering highly converting and engaging commerce solutions (B2C, D2C, B2B, POS) to our customers.   The services and solutions delivered as a part of the engagements you lead must create value, be sustainable, scalable and integrated in the eyes of the critical stakeholders within our customer organizations  Your success is dependent on broad technical acumen, historical experiences in the  Shopify ecosystem and build upon both your successes and more challenging experiences.  Previous technical leadership with Enterprise businesses (either as a direct employee, contractor or service provider) is highly sought after.  In addition, direct, hands-on development work building, supporting and maintaining Shopify Apps is required.

Please note that  Red Van Architects take on direct development tasks (tickets), perform code reviews, share learnings and best practices while also educating and elevating the knowledge within our customers. Critical thinking, problem solving, escalation management and collaboration are occurring daily at the direction of our Architects as well.

Responsibilities - You will:
 

• Architect solutions by integrating Shopify Plus, Shopify Search, Shopify Point-of-Sale, and supporting technologies.
• Extend the Shopify platform through the development of custom apps that meet the needs of Red Van’s enterprise customers, including advanced features such as automated workflow management, content aggregation, syndication, and social media integration.
• Review, recommend and support public apps on behalf of Red Van’s customers that meet the functional requirements they specify.
• Produce excellent code while collaborating with internal development resources at the client.
• Partner with other Red Vanners for QA, Project Management, and troubleshooting development issues.
• Participate in stand-up meetings, conference calls, track your time, and work through tickets assigned to you within a Jira instance. Lots of tickets.
• Work remotely with the distributed team at Red Van as well as client resources, being available during core business hours.
• Act with urgency and professionalism when interfacing with client resources. Don’t worry, our Project Managers step in to handle the primary communication and resolve conflicts with clients.
• Serve as a Shopify subject matter expert & mentor within Red Van, offering guidance to senior developers and architects on design and implementation best practices.

Ideally you:

• Have 5 years of experience as a team lead or architect for project-based delivery to software development and systems integration work.
• Have architected and delivered at least three large-scale, global Shopify implementations.
• Have experience in design, development, and implementation of Shopify Plus Experience with MEAN Stack development (MongoDB, Angular, Node, and Express) or similar frameworks.
• Have significant experience working as part of a small, focused team as the primary technical expert and advocate.
• Appreciate web standards and accessibility (e.g. WCAG Standards, screen reader support, semantic HTML).

• Have significant experience working with designers to create and maintain style guides & CSS standards across different applications.

• Are excited to play a critical and evolving role in helping drive technical initiatives to enhance end-user and developer experiences.
• Possess analytical, problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills as well as creativity and attention to detail; familiarity with database management, development environment, program testing, and other related software.
• Ability to lead, collaborate and write code building website frameworks alongside other developers, through challenging long-term projects as the software architect.

Compensation:

• $125,000 to $175,000 USD

Red Van Workshop is a distributed company, so your geographic location within the USA is not critical: your office is your choice. Occasional travel availability to client locations may be necessary, so reasonable proximity to an airport with good commercial service is required. Most of our crew travels rarely, at most a few days per quarter.

Perks and Benefits:

• Some benefits subject to country of residence
• Work fully remote
• Comprehensive benefits and health coverage
• Eligible for bonus program
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and time off to volunteer
• Paid leave for new parents
• We invest in your future by contributing 3% of your salary to a 401(K), even if you don't
• Recurring stipend to upgrade your home office and equipment

Find out more about Red Van Workshop and what we do at www.redvanworkshop.com/careers 

Applicants must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States of America or Canada, and be fluent in written and verbal English. 

What you get from working at Red Van Workshop

• A supportive community of the most passionate and talented developers in the eCommerce industry
• Everyone gets a 1-on-1 direct tie to company leadership
• Paid time for training, studying for certifications, and opportunities to increase your skillset
• Access to our internally developed training materials and programs
• Work fully remote with a flexible schedule to fit your life
• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, volunteering, parental leave)
• Comprehensive benefits and health coverage
• Annual bonus
• We invest in your future by contributing 3% of your salary to a 401(K), even if you don't
• Recurring stipend to upgrade your home office and equipment
• Bonuses when you choose to work more than 40 hours/week

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Applicants must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States of America, and be fluent in written and verbal English.

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