Expected duration: Ongoing Job Type: Hourly, Using Time Doctor Tracking
Experience level: Intermediate
Role: Shopify Expert, Front-End
Time zone required: Near US/EST (Please, Western Hemisphere only)
Job description and a little about us
We are looking for a talented developer to join our team at Prater Media, who can take our service to the next level as we scale up our business. We build and maintain Shopify stores for firms in a wide range of industries.
We strive to use the best developing practices using updated & proper development language and processes. Shopify/Liquid, JS, CSS/SCSS.
Shopify stores and feature updates tend to be urgent, so we focus on giving our clients a responsive turnaround time on same day or next day on average for more critical work.
Our goal is to give clients high-quality, dependable work. Our websites are to be optimized, modern & fast, mobile-ready, and pass audits and speed tests. Designers are on staff, but experience with proper, current web design standards is preferred.
Requirements
Flexible availability Monday to Friday between 8 am - 6 pm Eastern Time [Western Hemisphere is highly preferred due to time zones.] (Currently have part-time work, moving towards full-time in the future) Conversational or better in English Solo freelancer, no agencies, outsourcing, or teams of people. Strong in Shopify/Liquid Backend Modern web development experience, writes easy-to-understand, clean written code/markup/css. Minimize overwriting css (ex. !important) Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills of conversion issues, noting areas of improvement on client sites. The ability to work independently or in close collaboration with our internal team. Please let me know you read the requirements by telling me your favorite thing to do when you are not working. Due to volume, I will discard all applications that do not include this.
Responsibilities
Creative and design-oriented, with easy-to-understand, clearly written code. Have a careful mind on the work you do, create backups, add notes where needed, proper development processes. Independent, ideally you have solid remote work habits. Collaborative, adaptable, with good communication skills. Trustworthy (NDA will be required). Great design eye. Ability to self-assess work completed. Ability to learn & apply WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards Shopify speed optimization skills Here to stay and grow with the company, we're only a year and a half old and growing! Deliver high-quality work for our clients, including proper quality code and CSS standards with best practices for modern design. Update and repair Shopify sites and themes; we often add new features to Shopify themes. Edit or create blocks for themes. Design and development changes to pre-built sites. Full theme development and customizations using a pre-built theme (usually Out of The Sandbox Themes for Shopify and Oxygen builder for WordPress). Note/comment where you added custom code or changed code for simple updates in the future. We are looking for a long-term teammate and developer with a great skill set to complement the fantastic team we have.
Prater Media (me) is a very employee/contractor oriented business; I will always try to ensure you are happy working at Prater Media. There is a lot of time to continue to grow and improve here. I am excited to see what the future holds.
