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Overview
Trellis is a full-service eCommerce agency with a single mission: make commerce simple. We help growth-focused companies succeed through strategy, design, development, and performance-based marketing services. As an award-winning, remote-first organization with headquarters in Boston, weโve had the pleasure of helping some amazing brands succeed in the world of eCommerce and across industries such as apparel, beauty, manufacturing, sports, and many more.
Our clients turn to us for our technological expertise and depend on our ability to deliver comprehensive solutions to their complex problems. Our remote Tech Leads are in charge of scoping, estimating, and providing those solutions and fill a vital role in helping in architecting technical requirements, estimating tickets, performing code reviews, handling escalations, and serving as experts in all things Shopify.
Core Responsibilities:
Ready to lead a team of developers by adding technical details to tickets, architecting solutions, and estimating new or future work.
Managing a daily flow of work and delegating work to other team members appropriately.
Mentoring and teaching junior team members on topics related to Shopify development.
Handling escalations of senior to mid-level of difficulty regarding any aspect of Shopify issues and frontend issues with HTML, CSS.
Reviewing junior developers and promoting good development practices.
Weโre looking for individuals who thrive in dynamic environments, embrace process and organization, are detail-oriented, and enjoy using data to inform their decision-making. A great Tech Lead candidate will bring a blend of the following technical experience and professional skills to this opportunity:
Relevant Experience:ย
Mastery of all things Shopify, including app installation and configuration, adding custom functionality, server configuration, and custom app integration construction - Shopify 1.0 & 2.0 (ThemeKit & Shopify CLI)
A wide breadth of knowledge regarding standards-compliant HTML | CSS & Javascript - Including responsive design techniques, performance implications of CSS / CSS Animations & JavaScript.
Experience leading a development team of 4 or more people, demonstrating strong communication skills.
Knowledge of React.js is highly preferred.
Knowledge of BigCommerce is highly preferred.
Application of modern CSS concepts such as Grid CSS and Flexbox.
Background in software engineering, object-oriented programming, database management, preferably on a LAMP stack.
Ability to develop for a myriad of devices with differing screen sizes and resolutions.
Understanding of web standards and accessibility, and experience building stateful web applications with client-side technologies.
Experience using Git for version control.
Experience integrating with external web services, like SOAP, REST, or Graph QL APIs, is recommended.
Comfort using software development management tools like the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) or a similar set of applications.
Credentials:
Success as a Tech Lead at Trellis requires a mastery of JIRA and Shopify. As such, weโre looking for candidates who either already possesses or could obtain both their โJIRA Essentialsโ certification and โShopify Theme Developerโ certification within the first three months of their time at Trellis. Given the importance we place on this, we cover all costs related to training and the certification as well as offer a bonus upon obtaining the certification. While not required, a Bachelorโs Degree in Computer Science or a related field of study is preferred.
Professional Skills:
Social perceptiveness - Being aware of othersโ preferences, strengths, and weaknesses to manage expectations and distribute responsibilities.
Instruction - Developing skills and knowledge in others.
Coordination - Able to assess a situation and react quickly and appropriately with available resources.
Complex problem solving - Translating business requirements into technical requirements with efficient and creative solutions.
Persuasion - Translating expert advice on the best approach to solve a problem to clients and the development squad so everyone is in agreement and moves forward together.
Our Toolbox
Below are some of the tools that our Tech Leads use regularly:
Development
BitBucket/Git
Shopify Admin
GraphQL
Communications & Productivity
JIRA/Confluence
Slack
G-Suite
Zoom
Working at Trellis
Trellis is a fast-growing, self-funded eCommerce agency with headquarters just outside of Boston. Weโre a remote-first organization with over 2/3 of our team distributed across the US and internationally. Work/life balance is priority with a range of benefits to our employees, including:
Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Company-Paid Laptop and Home Office Equipment
12 Days Paid Holiday
20 Days Flexible PTO + Earned Seniority
25 Days Additional PTO for Parental Leave
401K with Employer Matching
Donation Matching Program
Education and Professional Development Bonuses
Performance-Based Bonuses
Benefits may vary by employee location
We structure our teams into โSquads,โ providing an opportunity to build deep connections with colleagues and longer-term relationships with clients. We aim to provide an inclusive environment that encourages a diverse group of voices to contribute to our company. This inclusion is often in the form of employee-led โLunch & Learns,โ employee-driven special interest groups, paired mentorship, and transparent career advancement policies. All of these initiatives stem from Trellis Core Principles:
Be a Source of Honesty: Communicate transparently and act honestly with our clients, teammates, and community.
Engage with Problem Solvers: Recruit and retain high-quality creative and technical employees that love solving problems and are empowered to do fantastic work.
Support Growth: Encourage and support the growth of our clients and teammates, even when weโve made mistakes.
Demonstrate through Results: Use results as the ultimate way to sell our ideas and capabilities.
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Salary and compensation
$100,000 — $120,000/year
Benefits
๐ฆท Dental insurance
Location
Worldwide
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**Staff Software Engineer โ Back End, Mobile, or Front End Development (Remote, Americas)**\n\n**Company Description**\n\nShopifyโs mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.\n\nHaving a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchantโs experience. This is why we are all here.\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt Shopify, Staff Engineers use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a Staff Engineer, youโll help drive your teamโs vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. Youโll also be hands-on in our code and will contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.\n\nIntrigued? Weโre recruiting Staff Software Engineers to join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!โจโจ\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nBack End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. Weโre talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds โ a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. Weโre constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.\n\n**Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)**\n\nOur Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. Youโll work on large-scale apps that are ever-changing, enabling entrepreneurship for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. Our Android engineers use Kotlin and our iOS engineers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! \n\n**Front End Development**\n\nOur Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also engineer-facing tools. Youโll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. Youโll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopifyโs impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.\n\n**Qualifications\nWhat youโll do as a Staff Engineers at Shopify:**\n\n* Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better\n* Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API\n* Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items\n* Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best experiences for our merchants\n\n**Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:**\n\n* A proven track record of success in leading software development teams โ strong technical mentorship is a must\n* Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data\n* A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships across UX, Product Management, Product Marketing, Data, and SEO teams distributed across multiple time zones\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results\n* Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too\n* Experience with relational databases and SQL\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (๐๐ป) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. ๐ ๐\n\n*At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our 2019 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments.*\n\n#LI-KO3 #LI-REMOTE #LI-AH1\n \n\n**Interested, but not ready to apply?**\n\nJoin the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021 \n\nPlease mention the words **MATERIAL UNVEIL VACANT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States, Canada
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**Company Description**\n\nShopifyโs mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.\n\nHaving a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchantโs experience. This is why we are all here.\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt Shopify, Senior Staff Engineers use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a Senior Staff Engineer, youโll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. Youโll also be hands-on in our code and will contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.\n\n**Intrigued? Weโre recruiting Senior Staff Software Engineers to join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!โจโจ**\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nBack End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. Weโre talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds โ a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. Weโre constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.\n\n**Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)**\n\nOur Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. Youโll work on large-scale apps that are ever-changing, enabling entrepreneurship for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. Our Android engineers use Kotlin and our iOS engineers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! \n\n**Front End Development**\n\nOur Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also engineer-facing tools. Youโll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. Youโll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopifyโs impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.\n\n**Qualifications\nWhat youโll do as a Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify:**\n\n* Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better\n* Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API\n* Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items\n* Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants\n\n**Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:**\n\n* A proven track record of strong technical mentorship\n* Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data\n* A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results\n* Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too\n* Proficiency in systems thinking and systems design concepts like transactions, atomicity, idempotency, etc.\n* Raise the quality and speed (team efficiency) bar and move the platform into a position of maximum leverage\n* Use the right tool for the job, fix problems are the right level of abstraction and optimize to meet both functional and non-functional goals\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (๐๐ป) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. ๐ ๐\n\nAt Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our 2019 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments. \n\nPlease mention the words **REAL EPISODE INTACT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States, Canada
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The VOLT Marketing Agency is a comprehensive leader in the direct-to-consumer eCommerce industry that focuses on scaling international brands to 8 figures of revenue. With a combined focus on performance marketing and full-stack development, VOLT presents a unique & compatible service offering that fosters sustainable growth.\nAs a Senior Frontend Engineer at Volt, you will be tasked with delivering pixel-perfect renditions of static design assets while implementing best practices. Furthermore, youโll be responsible for identifying any foreseeable bottlenecks in project timelines before they surface. Youโll be reporting to your department head who will be hands-on in supporting your development efforts.\n\n**Requirements:**\n\n- Uses best practice in all circumstances\n- Experience with Git\n- Comfortable using CLI\n- Ability to write ES6 compatible JS\n- Experience using CSS/JS Preprocessors\n- Experience using CSS/JS Linters\n- Familiar with Jira, Asana, or related platforms\n- Ability to work autonomously\n\n**Nice to have:**\n\n- Experience with VueJS\n- Experience with Shopify and other e-commerce platforms\n- Familiar with code review processes\n- Understanding of different licenses \n\nPlease mention the words **CULTURE DECREASE RECIPE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$100,000 — $140,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States
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