Work will include a variety of tasks from ongoing maintenance tasks, bug fixing, making performance improvements, to planning and developing enhancements and new features, QA testing, and documentation, with the ultimate goal of improving our customer experience.
You will also collaborate with and provide technical support to our team of designers to help spec out new, or improved features and designs.The role will require working with BigCommerce and third party APIs, while coordinating with our ERP team and third party suppliers.
Role Responsibilities:
- Develop new user-facing features.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
- Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Evaluating requirements, specifications, and code - analysis, problem definition & solution.
- Development.
- Code reviewing & initial QA of peers work.
- Develop new custom internal features.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Optimise applications for resource consumption (rate limits etc).
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders, technical and non-technical.
- Evaluating requirements, specifications, and code - analysis, problem definition & solution.
- System configuration.
- Data export.
- Code reviewing & initial QA of peers work.
- Investigation and bug fixing.
Essential Skills
- Experience with BigCommerce, including API use (REST/GraphQL).
- General API experience, including authentication mechanisms.
- Appropriate scripting language experience (e.g. JS, PHP, Python).
- OOP & functional programming.
- Version control (Git).
- Ability to work with legacy outputs (e.g. csv) any apply data munging/transformation.
- RDBMS experience.
- Linux CLI.
Desirable Skills
- Experience using Stencil and Handlebars.
- Experience with Google Analytics and Google Ads/Merchant centre.
- Experience using GCP / AWS environments.
- Experience with Klevu.
- Markup and styling languages, templating systems, Javascript including libraries/frameworks.
- Experience with Docker.
- Exclusive access to various holiday homes around the UK and Europe, at a generously subsidised rate.
- Colleague discount on products, including friends and family discount.
- 1 extra day of holiday for your birthday per year!
- Long-service awards.
- Suggestions scheme with monetary awards.
- We are an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) whereby the colleagues own 60% of the business, receiving a share of the profits (after 12 months service).
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave.
- Contribution towards Benenden private healthcare.
- Various company contribution schemes including gym memberships and exercise classes, eye tests and glasses, dental, hearing tests and shoulder/ back massages.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Cash incentive for colleagues who stop smoking.
- 50% towards the subscription to Headspace and mental health applications.
- Extra day off to take a child to their 1st day at primary/secondary school.
- Sickness benefit scheme.
- Contribution to course or exam fees relevant to the job.
- Low interest loans.
- Take your pet to work scheme (Restrictions apply).
Please note, some of the benefits are only available to our colleagues after 6 or 12 months of service.