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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, BCs native Page Builder, as well as other third party apps including Shogun and Klevu.
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
Who we are looking for:
Essential Skills
- Experience with BigCommerce, including Stencil.
- Good understanding of HTML, XML, including styling using CSS, Sass / SCSS.
- Good working knowledge of Handlebars.js.
- Previous experience with dynamic, responsive sites.
- Strong understanding of JavaScript.
- Good understanding of debugging techniques, browser rendering behaviour and performance.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Google Analytics and Google Ads.
- Competent using PHP.
- Working knowledge of libraries / toolkits such as JQuery, JQuery UI, Require.js, Grunt and Gulp.js
- OOP & functional programming.
- Asynchronous control flow, partial page updates, AJAX.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (Git)
- Experience using JSON and REST/GraphQL APIs.
- Experience using GCP / AWS environments.
What can we offer you?
- 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.
