Jobs - Senior Developer

 

Who We Are

Coldsmoke Creative is a leading eCommerce design and development agency. An accredited Shopify Plus Partner and Shopify Experts since 2017, Coldsmoke Creative has helped hundreds of brands on Shopify and Shopify Plus grow their business and get the most out of the platform. We work with some of the most exciting brands on Shopify Plus like Bodega, ILIA Beauty, and BYLT Basics, and we’re expanding our team to help us to continue to deliver high-quality and high-performing capabilities to our clients.

What We Value

  • Honor Commitments: we do what we say we're going to do.
  • Challenge Assumptions: we don’t do things just because that’s how they’ve always been done.
  • Display Transparency: we share both good and bad updates with full context and information.
  • Growth: whether you work with us as a client or a team member, it will result in growth.
  • Provide Certainty: we aim to reduce uncertainty for internal and external stakeholders through timely updates and constant communication.

Position Overview

As a Sr. Developer at Coldsmoke, your role combines hands-on coding and site-building with problem-solving and mentorship. When not directly building amazing websites for our clients, you will help with sales scoping, maintain and improve our team’s technical acumen, and mentor more junior developers. 

Responsibilities and Duties

Direct Development (68%):

  • Use your knowledge of Shopify and headless technologies to build Shopify stores, features, and functions for our clients. 
  • Work closely with project managers and designers to estimate the level of effort for site enhancements and maintenance needs/requests. 
  • Work with Discovery project teams to identify specific solutions, such as apps and custom build needs.
  • Take ownership of all build tasks at all levels of difficulty assigned to you. From minor bug fixes to major feature development, no task is too big or beneath you to take on.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives. 

Technical Leadership & Mentorship (25%):

  • Assist developers in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and guidance to ensure code quality and adherence to standards.
  • Engage in paired programming sessions, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among team members.
  • Act as a technical resource for developers, offering assistance and troubleshooting expertise to overcome challenges and drive projects forward.
    Recommend and implement best practices.
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our development practices and recommending adoption where appropriate.
  • Hold weekly 30-minute 1:1 with development team members to ensure team growth, proper workloads, and evaluate training needs.

Technical Architecture (7%):

  • Work with the sales team to develop large-scale project estimates based on prospects’ needs and budgets.
  • As needed, join sales calls to discuss unique/non-standard functionality required by a client. Examples include things like sales attribution methods, custom integrations, etc.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with Shopify Theme Development (Liquid, CSS, HTML, JavaScript).
  • Expertise with multiple backend programming languages and frontend frameworks.
  • Experience with Shopify Headless, Composable Commerce, or technically similar architectures across other projects.
  • Experience with other e-commerce platforms is nice to have.
  • Experience establishing coding standards, performing code reviews, peer programming, and mentoring developers.
  • Proven experience in a leadership role within a development team, with a demonstrated ability to take ownership of tasks and provide support across the development lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with modern development practices and tools, with a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.
  • Excellent communication skills are necessary for this role.
  • Willingness to collaborate with a small, yet eager team with the common goal of growth to help the company scale.
  • Able to respond to Slack and email within a timely manner, with full availability Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm EST.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Fully remote
  • Unlimited PTO time
  • Health, Dental, and Vision benefits available
  • 401K plan available
  • Opportunities for progression within a fast-growing agency

We’re an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Apply Here