Shopify Technical Lead

Corra, a Publicis Sapient company, is the global commerce consultancy and SI that helps brands and organizations grow by evaluating, building, and optimizing their digital commerce ecosystems. 

As Publicis Sapient's Commerce Center of Excellence, we are not just strategic thinkers, accomplished engineers, and award-winning experience designers. We are also firm believers that outstanding customer experiences are the result of a perfect blend of flawless technology and beautiful, human-centered design. With 20+ years of experience in commerce technology, we understand that customer expectations are constantly evolving. That's why we've committed to building future-proof solutions and refining an agile execution process, ensuring our clients can achieve more with less.

Winner of multiple Best Places to Work awards, we offer exciting and challenging projects with industry leading companies, competitive health benefits, flexible work arrangements, ongoing career development, company outings, and many other bonuses.

Corra is looking for a Shopify Plus Technical Lead to join our team. The Technical Lead will work with our project and support teams to provide our clients with high quality development services. They will work with the team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the projects. In addition, they will maintain and enhance existing Shopify Plus ecommerce websites while adhering to best practices. Preferably an experienced ecommerce professional, the Technical Lead will have a passion for researching and learning the latest digital technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the Corra team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the completed project
• Maintain and enhance existing Shopify Plus ecommerce websites while adhering to best practices
• Play a significant role in the requirements gathering, working with Solution Strategists and Delivery Managers by providing technical suggestions.
• Partake in Scrum and Sprint planning calls and provide technical input (approach, estimate)
• Create high level technical design documentation
• Perform code review before deployment and provide technical review/ feedback to engineers
• Have a detailed technical understanding on work happening in assigned projects
• Have technical ownership of groups of projects

REQUIREMENTS

• Shopify Plus experience required
• Expert in Shopify Liquid template language
• Expert in Shopify APIs and its usage
• REST API working knowledge
• GraphQL expertise 
• Working knowledge in Custom Shopify APP development
• Experience in Shopify Theme development
• Proven knowledge with Admin API and Storefront API
• Background in Product modeling and configuration via Shopify Admin
• Understanding of Product, Discount, Inventory, Fulfillment, Order APIs and customizations using the APIs
• Awareness of the Marketing Events, Discounts, Gift Cards and their configurations in Shopify
• Experience with Shopify instance management and configuration
• Knowledge in data migration and synchronization between Shopify instances
• Experience with code version/ branching tools like Git/SVN
• Good knowledge in AJAX/JQuery
• Prior experience with product/Customer/Order import Export management
• Experience integrating with backend systems such as ERPs, WMS, OMS, etc.
• Solid knowledge of performance Improvement best practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of ecommerce web development experience.
• 3 or more Shopify Plus project implementation experience
• PHP Experience is nice to have
• Experience/Knowledge of steps involved in migration of an existing commerce site running on a different platform to Shopify Platform (eg: Magento to Shopify)
• Comfortable researching and adopting new web technologies.
• Familiar with SEO / SEM best practices
• Prior experience with React / Node / NoSQL stacks is nice to have 
• Prior experience with Shopify theme frameworks such as Slate and/or Timber is nice to have 

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