Senior Web Developer

Who we are and what we do:

Astound Commerce, the world's largest privately held digital commerce agency, combines strategy, technology, creativity, insight and a proven methodology to deliver exceptional digital shopping experiences. Through a forward-thinking, results-driven approach, Astound Commerce serves leading global brands such as Adidas, L'Oreal, Under Armour, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste and Versace. Founded in San Francisco in 2000, the passionate team of some 700 dedicated, diverse industry and technology experts has decades of ecommerce experience and more than 400 implementations under their belt to address the complex challenges, advancing technologies and unique needs of global markets. To learn more, visit astoundcommerce.com

Brief description of the open position:

The Web Developer Senior will be a part of a high-performance feature driven development team responsible for building enterprise-level ecommerce platform solutions.

You will:

• Work in a web development team to develop enterprise-level ecommerce solutions by using a server-side ECMAScript-based language and common client-side JS (excluding CSS);
• Actively participate in daily project team meetings and brainstorming activities related to the project issues;
• Provide updates to effort estimates and status of assigned tasks;
• Collaborate with frontend development and QA teams;
• Write technical documentation;
• Provide recommendations to Team Lead to improve development procedures, systems and tools.

You have:

• Minimum 4 years of web development practice;
• At least 2 years of experience with any server-side language (node.js is preferred);
• Knowledge of native JavaScript and OOP;
• Software architecture design using object-oriented and modularity principles;
• Technical documentation writing skills;
• Design patterns knowledge and experience;
• Experience in refactoring and code review;
• Understanding of JSON, CSV, XML files formats;
• Experience in integrations with other systems through REST or SOAP;
• Experience with any VCS (Git is preferred);
• Intermediate English.

Good to have:

• Experience in performance optimization (server and client);
• jQuery, AngularJS, Vue.JS or any other popular JS frameworks or libraries;
• Knowledge of JS build engines like gulp or webpack;
• Knowledge of Handlebars or similar template processor.

We offer:

• Knowledgebase of the world's largest ecommerce delivery team;
• Trainings and certifications;
• A constant inflow of ecommerce projects with global outreach;
• Well set SDLC process with use of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall depending on a project;
• Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
• Internal/external engineering and business training and conferences and time for self-education;
• Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes;
• A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams, easy communications and access to clients;
• Possible international on-site visits;
• Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.