BAO is a globally award-winning Shopify Plus eCommerce agency based in the UK. We work explicitly with Shopify Plus merchants in the fashion, cosmetics, and luxury goods sectors for brands all over the world. Our team is committed to exceptional standards in eCommerce and is on a mission to work with the world's most ambitious eCommerce brands. We offer a smart, open, fast-paced, fun, and rewarding environment for our team members, with opportunities for remote work and clear career progression paths. Every staff member at BAO is climate positive, with the company contributing to planting trees around the world on behalf of its team.
We are looking for a talented, conscientious, and ambitious Frontend Web Developer to work on exciting eCommerce projects for global brands. The ideal candidate should have hands-on technical experience with an e-Commerce platform, a good understanding of JavaScript and modern JavaScript frameworks, and the ability to write well-structured semantic & accessible HTML. They should also be conscious of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements, have solid web development principles, and extensive knowledge of front-end performance practices. Bonus points for experience with a common back-end language or framework, working in an agency or creative studio environment, and a deep understanding of specific client-side areas like animation, performance, or accessibility. We offer a highly competitive salary, annual leave, Christmas bonus scheme, training budget, high-spec Apple machine, interesting clients, remote working options, social events, and clear career progression paths. Join our Carbon Positive workforce and become part of a globally award-winning agency committed to exceptional standards in eCommerce.
Responsibilities:
- Hands-on technical experience with an e-Commerce platform - Shopify, Magento, Big Commerce, etc.
- A minimum of 2 years experience working on active projects
- A good understanding of JavaScript and working knowledge of one or more modern JavaScript frameworks (like Vue, or React)
- Can write well-structured semantic & accessible HTML
- Comfortable writing framework agnostic and performance focused JavaScript
- Conscious of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements and follows progressive enhancement methodologies
- Solid web development principles and extensive knowledge of front-end performance practices
- Building complex interactions in a performant way, with a high degree of polish
- Strong technology generalist with a positive, problem-solving attitude
- Working with modern web stacks (transpilers, linters, build and CI tools, etc.)
- Solid understanding of Git and version control and working on a team of multiple developers
