full-stack engineer

Arkade has developed a flexible and powerful headless solution that delivers a great experience to customers, generates sales through high performing and more relevant shopping journeys, and most importantly, clients and developers love to work on.

Working with community-first and performance-driven platforms like Shopify Plus, Omneo CX Suite, Google Cloud Platform, Prismic CMS, Zendesk, Sumo, Formstack, Zeit to deliver a truly headless and customer-centric eCommerce experience.

You'll be working on an exciting platform that offers:

• Completely headless e-commerce storefront built on a modern JavaScript stack of React, GraphQL, and Next JS.
• Supports both server-side and front-end rendering.
• Google Cloud serverless functions for serving up data-heavy frontend requests, making use of the recent stale-while-revalidate cache control for performance
• An integrated error logging platform captures exceptions and alerts for debugging purposes.
• A growing Prismic content library can be used to build highly customised Homepages, landing pages and rich product pages.
• Supports multi-device / multi-platform with responsive design. Including Progressive Web Apps (or PWAs)
• Shopify Plus Storefront API for all e-commerce functions such as cart/checkout
• Shopify Plus Notifications for all commerce related emails.
• Shopify Plus Multipass to maintain login across Website, Shopify checkout and other connected experiences.

What do you think? Sounds exciting to you? If you think you have the grit and capabilities to join our great team of devs to optimise this solution for our existing and new clients, hit apply now

Some of the Key Selection Criteria you need to know

Core Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5 years development experience in PHP using the Laravel Framework
• Frontend experience with Javascript frameworks and/or React)
• Experience writing unit tests (PHPUnit)
• Extensive experience in designing, developing and maintaining RESTful APIs and applications
• Ecommerce & ERP integration experience
• Experience with AWS especially RDS, SQS, EB, EC2 is a bonus
• Laravel,
• MySql, Postgres

Front End

• JavaScript/ES6
• React/React Native/Mobile Development
• Shopify (Liquid)
• JS Tooling Webpack/Yarn/NPM

General

• Experience in project analysis and estimation
• Strong communication skills; effectively communicate during stand-ups on progress/ blockers, ability to articulate solutions to clients and non-technical stakeholders
• Test features and requirements, refine as required
• Good understanding and knowledge of UX and Customer Experience
• Continuous Integration/CI

The Team and Studio

Arkade is a diverse team of designers, developers, and strategists that work across several agile teams to create products for a select group of long term clients. We value learning and multidisciplinary talent. Everyone gets the opportunity to work across different clients and product teams over their time at Arkade to ensure that they can grow their skills and experience new challenges.

We also have our own product: that you will get the opportunity to work with.

Perks

• Design and build things that are considered leading edge in the field of retail CX
• A team invested in your personal and professional development
• Staff referral program
• Shared agency Uber for Business account
• Fully stocked breakfast and snacks pantry
• Coffee machine
• Bicycle racks and lockers
• Sparkling tap water
• Latest model of Macbook PRO laptop and other tech tools you want
• Access to GCP certification
• Flexible working and WFH arrangement on offer
• Weekly (Friday) deliveroo snacks delivered for everyone
• Stocked up beer fridge
• Stand up desks
• If you need to work during lunch to hit your deadlines, we are happy to get you lunch of your choice
• If you are serious about your music, you will be opinionated and fight to DJ our sonos system in this place