Shopify Technical Lead

Tryzens Limited is a fast-growing IT solutions consultancy head with headquarters based in London and a proven development centre in Trivandrum, India, a near shore office in Sofia, Bulgaria and in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney Australia and in Indianapolis, USA. Our areas of expertise include delivery of digital solutions (eCommerce and Non commerce), multi-channel retail solutions and project management amongst others. We provide best of breed solutions and services to several blue-chip clients primarily within retail, financial services, and other industries. We have built our delivery focused reputation upon technical innovation, in-depth business knowledge, and creative vision, all of which supports our objective of helping clients to gain true value from digital solutions. We have a platform-neutral independent approach working with the world’s leading technology partners Shopify, Salesforce, SAP Commerce, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Commercetools and Middleware. Tryzens has been awarded Salesforce Commerce Cloud’s EMEA delivery partner of 2017!

You will be part of our rapidly growing Shopify practice helping to shape and deliver the right outcomes for our clients. You will operate across the project lifecycle from discovery through to development, test, training, and post-implementation support.

The core responsibilities are:

Development of client solutions

• Participate in the discovery phase and provide an estimation of the business requirements.
• Planning and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project execution as per technical and functional specifications.
• Reviewing technical requirements and adapting those into Shopify.
• Communicating with client business to fully understand client expectations.
• Participating in and leading code-review sessions to identify potential project bottlenecks and suggest solutions.
• Engagement in technical design discussions, requirement analysis, coding, testing, implementation and maintenance of Shopify and associated software applications.
• Managing technical delivery of integrations and custom extensions.
• Providing hands-on support in software/application architecture, development, design, independent analysis, and problem resolution.
• Shopify setup, configuration, customization, data Migration, and deployment of applications to Shopify and associated platforms.
• Providing guidance to clients and developers over technology, processes, and applications while updating them on regular project-related developments.
• Effectively troubleshoot production issues and do root cause analysis.
• Train and integrate new team members and proactively support the continued
  development of existing team members.
• Build and promote a positive working environment for the team.
• Effectively work with team members in line with company policy and procedures,
  including performance, development, disciplinary and conflict resolution with
  effective feedback
• Excellent communication skills
  
  Commercial
• Supporting Presales during development of new business with new or existing clients
• General
• Participate in recruitment activities where necessary.
• Maintain certification in Shopify

Requirements

Essential Skills & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Team player with excellent collaboration skills, with a fantastic can-do attitude.

• Self-driven, with an aptitude to learn and keep up with the latest in Shopify.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A minimum 4 years’ experience developing on the Shopify including:
• Experience in implementing applications in cloud using server less functions, services etc.
• Experience in implementing unit tests for NodeJS or PHP
• Experience in performance tuning of Nodejs or PHP applications and writing high performance code
• Experience in addressing quality/security issues in Nodejs/PHP code
• Good exposure towards test-driven development while using the industry best practices with an ability to write new test suites
• Produce code that is easy to read and maintain.
• Proven track record in software development environments and experiences of end-to-end project lifecycles.
• Proficient in co-coordinating with teams and clients across different time zones.
• Familiar with JIRA, Confluence, MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and Project
• Overall, 7 to 12 Years of IT experience.
• Knowledge in other ecommerce platform like Magento, BigCommerce, Commercetools will be preferred.
• Knowledge in technologies such as Vue.js, React.js, Ruby language (Ruby on Rails framework) for creating apps or scheduler jobs.

• Good understanding of functionalities and features provided by Shopify.
• Experience with custom apps and integrations available in Shopify.
• Strong knowledge of Liquid template language
• Strong hands-on experience in customizing Shopify themes.
• Knowledge in technologies such as NodeJS OR PHP framework like Laravel, ExpressJs HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/Jquery.
• Experience with implementing/debugging Shopify apps as well as creating custom extensions.
• Experience with Shopify's object/properties, REST API, webhooks and Meta fields
• Clear Understanding on Shopify concepts

Desirable Experience & Knowledge

• Shopify Certification

Benefits

• Extremely competitive remuneration package
• Technical training and certification
• Flexible working hours
• Food and gift vouchers
• Work in a team of bright, friendly and cooperative people
• Health insurance and Term insurance
• Great work-life balance and 35 days annual leave
• Interest free salary loans
• Fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• Regular team events
• A positive and fun environment