AddressYou form a key part of a team of developers helping build custom functionality on top of our SaaS eCommerce platforms.
Here’s how your week may look:
You start your day in a team Stand Up discussing progress you made yesterday, listening to your team members describe their current issues and dropping some knowledge bombs on how you “solved this last time”. You’re working from home today, so you pay the pet tax and encourage your four-legged-friend wave to the camera before logging off.
First on your agenda is a pair-programming session with a Junior Developer on your team to guide them through a complex frontend component they've been tackling. With your seasoned guidance, they've been making steady progress and are blossoming into a valuable asset to the team.
After lunch you’ll set your Slack status and turn on Do Not Disturb for a couple of hours while you debug a weird issue with a customer’s site. There’s been a change to the out of stock logic recently to support multiple warehouses. You update your unit test suite to cover this unexpected scenario and tell the Project Manager the good news! You push your feature branch to Bitbucket and watch Bitbucket Pipelines build your artifact and prove that your tests pass.
Your JIRA issue has automatically transitioned to “In Code Review” and you open your pull request, studying your diff carefully before assigning it to your team mate for a sanity check.
Tomorrow (assuming all is well!) you’ll merge your pull request into a release branch and let Pipelines deploy it to Staging where it will be regression tested by the QA Team and their bank of automated tests. It should be out to Production by the end of the week, providing we can get through the testing and get client sign off by 2pm on Thursday.
If you read this and it sounds like your ideal job — we want you on the team!
What You’ll Be Doing
The following should give you an idea of how you’ll be expected to typically be spending your time. It’s not set in stone and it may change from week-to-week, but it gives an idea of what is expected from the role.
Software Development (80%)
The majority of your time will be spent working with your team to deliver software that meets the needs of our customers. This isn’t time that you’ll spend entirely in your editor, there’s stand up, sprint planning, scoping, architecting and designing that you’ll take part in to make sure we’re building exactly what we need in the right way.
Process and Tooling Improvements (10%)
Making sure that we don’t sit still and keep evolving the way we build and deliver software is a critical investment of time, particularly from a team member with your experience. Use this time to try that tool you read about and see if it’s worthy of being a part of our toolchain.
Personal Development (10%)
Keeping up with new software releases, development practices, horror stories and post-mortems are an essential part of any Software Developer’s time! Use this time to push forward your objectives and research tools and techniques you need to stay productive.
Who You Are
Here’s an idea of the type of experience you’ve got along with an idea of what we think would be useful to also know:
Essential
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and SCSS
- Knowledge of back-end technologies such as NodeJS, Express or Koa
- Strong Client-side & Server-side JavaScript skills
- Typescript
- Experience with FaaS platforms (e.g Cloud Functions, Lambda)
- Working with third-party REST and GraphQL APIs
- Experience of the full software lifecycle
- Advanced experience working with Git
- Advanced experience working with Git
Knowledge and Experience
- At least 2 years of development experience working in a development team within a commercial environment
- Experience dealing directly with non-technical stakeholders
- Highly motivated with demonstrable technical and analytical skills
- Desire to further technical skills and knowledge
- Attention to detail, commitment and desire to complete a consistently high standard of work
- Advanced time management skills with the ability to manage own tasks to agreed timelines with limited supervision
- Able to clearly communicate complex design and development decisions
- Knowledge of best practice and architecture for complex web applications
- Able to articulate complex technical solutions with minimal assistance
- Able to design and build complex technical solutions with minimal assistance
- Strong communication skills
Desirable
Technical Skills
- Experience on the BigCommerce platform, or other SaaS ecommerce platforms
- Experience with one or more cloud platform (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool
- Experience integrating with relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL)
Knowledge and Experience
- At least 1 years software development experience on a SaaS ecommerce platform
- Managing tasks and timelines of a development team, within a commercial environment
Your Responsibilities
The following are the types of tasks that you may be required to perform as part of your role.
- Build Software
- Interpret business requirements and technical specification documents, to deliver an appropriate technical solution to agreed quality and timelines.
- Write software to an agreed set of coding standards
- Create, document, and implement automated test scenarios
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Set up and maintain deployment systems
- Participate in manual testing of work in progress
- Maintain Software
- Perform maintenance development
- Investigate, analyse and document defects
- Correct identified defects
- Support customers out-of-hours as part of an on-call rota
- Communicate with Team
- Provide progress reports on tasks and projects
- Assist in Planning
- Participate in project planning meetings
- Create business requirement and technical specification documents
- Share Knowledge and Ideas
- Proactively suggest improvements in customer programmes of work
- Actively support and mentor less senior members of the development team
- Perform related duties as assigned.
