AddressWe are searching for a visionary Senior Lead Engineer to spearhead the Blaze Commerce project, a groundbreaking e-commerce solution designed to overcome the intrinsic limitations of WordPress and WooCommerce. This role is pivotal in leading the technical development and execution of Blaze Commerce, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like React and Next.js to deliver a state-of-the-art ecommerce experience.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership and Project Management: Lead the technical development of the Blaze Commerce platform, ensuring it harnesses the latest in React, Next.js, and JavaScript libraries. Proficient in hosting effective meetings and adept at project management to ensure seamless coordination and successful execution.
- Feature Implementation Leadership: Spearhead feature implementation, grooming tasks by evaluating the size of work, setting sprint points, and delegating to peers. Provide daily and weekly updates on managed projects, ensuring alignment with project timelines and goals.
- Design Alignment: Ensure project implementation aligns with the Figma design layout project file, maintaining fidelity to the envisioned user experience.
- Mentorship: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior developers, fostering their professional growth and development within the team.
- Automation and Process Improvement: Automate processes and build procedures for existing and new projects, enhancing efficiency and reliability.
- Solution Engineering: Offer optimal solutions to complex problems, driving innovation and excellence in project outcomes.
- Code Quality Assurance: Ship clean, testable code that facilitates easy onboarding for developers across teams. Conduct thorough code reviews for recently submitted pull requests to maintain high standards of code quality and consistency.
Required Skills
- Core Technologies: Proficiency in ReactJS, NodeJS, TypeScript, webpack, and package managers such as Yarn or Npm is essential. Experience with React storybook, Jest, Ghost Inspector, or similar tools is also required.
- Framework Expertise: Strong experience with NextJS and Vercel. A deep understanding of HTML, CSS, Sass, TailwindCSS, and Sass.
- State Management: Experience with React Redux, Context API, or MobX.
API Integration: Solid experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and integrating with backend systems. - Core Technologies: Expertise in PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress theming and plugin development, with a solid understanding of action and filter hooks.
- Development Tools: Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines for streamlined development and deployment processes.
- Debugging and Standards: Exceptional debugging and code tracing skills, with a strict adherence to coding standards.
Why Join Us?
We are an ecommerce development agency that works exclusively with headless WooCommerce stores. We know that a great user experience is key to online success, so we focus on creating beautiful and intuitive stores that are easy for customers to use.
We are based in Australia, with a growing team of talented and skilled team members internationally. Our team loves working with Blaze Commerce because they get to work from home but are still part of a great team and company that's constantly improving their skills and learning new ones. Plus we offer attractive compensation.
In today's rapidly evolving business environment, it is crucial for employees to constantly update their skills and knowledge in order to stay competitive. At our company, we prioritize ongoing learning and development for our employees by offering mentoring opportunities and providing access to online learning. We believe that investing in the growth of our employees not only benefits them personally and professionally but also helps drive the success of our organization as a whole.
Working Hours
This role requires adherence to business hours based in Melbourne, Australia. Regardless of their geographical location, candidates must be able to align their work schedule to Melbourne's local time zone. This alignment is crucial to ensure effective collaboration with our team and stakeholders in Melbourne.
Apply Now
If you're a forward-thinking engineer eager to lead in the ecommerce domain, we invite you to apply. Lead the charge with Blaze Commerce and help shape the future of online shopping.
3,000.00 USD - 4,000.00 USD per month.
