Lead Shopify Engineer/Architect

Globant’s Commerce Studio helps organizations create best-in-class commerce-enabled experiences, with engineering and design at its core. The goal is to meet the demands of tomorrow's customers, leveraging long-standing expertise with large and complex commerce transformations in both B2B, B2C and D2C domains.

As an award-winning partner of enterprise-class platforms: Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Magento Commerce, and other API first, Headless Commerce surround solutions, we help clients create a competitive advantage with commerce at its core.

Our mission is to empower companies to succeed and thrive in the ever-changing digital landscape by building best-in-class future-ready digital commerce solutions globally.

As a Lead Shopify Developer, you will translate client requirements into technical development, design schemas, and integrate with content management solutions and search engines, unlocking the business value of new technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a great Digital Consumer experience based on a foundation of Shopify.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on all website preparation and all site updates
• Assist with requirements definition, specifications, vendor selections, design, development, and timelines for key initiatives
• Ensure a smooth connection with Marketing Tools, Platform APIs, and Shopify Apps to optimise the shop for overall efficiency and functionality
• Assist with code reviews and pull requests
• Diagnose and solve technical problems related to commerce implementation
• Define best practices to implement non-functional requirements like performance and scalability of the e-commerce solution
• As Senior specialist, mentor and train Junior/Middle developers

• You have at least 5 years of web development experience;
• Broad shop construction, launch, and maintenance expertise, as well as a general understanding of the admin system;
• Previous experience implementing/debugging third-party Shopify apps, as well as building unique solutions if needed. Working knowledge of third-party services and APIs, as well as Shopify plugins
• In-depth knowledge and expertise with vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, ES2015/ES6, and current JavaScript frameworks;
• Working experience with Docker, Varnish, Redis, ElasticSearch or Solr.
• HTML 5, CSS 3 - would be considered as an advantage
• Working knowledge of Shopify's object/properties, AJAX API, and Meta fields
• Good English, both, written and spoken
• Any DEV-oriented certification is an advantage
• Client-facing experience is a huge plus.

• Make an impact. Work in large-scale projects globally.
• Develop your career in our Studios. Each Studio represents deep pockets of expertise on the latest technologies and trends and delivers tailored solutions focused on specific challenges.
• Develop your career within an industry or multiple industries.
• Work in the city you want, and be nourished by cultural exchanges.
• Be empowered to choose your career path: we have more than 600 simultaneous projects, so you can choose where and how to work.
• Be part of an agile pod. Driven by a culture of self-regulated teamwork, each team -or POD- works directly with our customers with a full maturity path that evolves as they increase speed, quality and autonomy.