Shopify Developer

Due to continuing business growth at Pavers, we are now looking for a second UK based Shopify Developer to join our Ecommerce & Web Development Head Office team. The position would ideally suit someone with a creative mind, up to date knowledge of Shopify, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript with a can do problem solving attitude. We offer flexible start and end times to the working day and hybrid working or UK based remote working with occasional visits to the office, ideally quarterly.

You will join a wider team of developers who act as a companywide resource to deliver systems across the organisation. This role will have a specific slant on our customer facing eCommerce platform, utilising CMS systems including Sanity and Shopify 2.0. The successful applicant will be responsible for creating appealing visual content on our fully responsive website. This role would suit someone with CMS experience, a passion for Web Design, a creative mindset. Someone who has the ability and drive to investigate, research and solve problems through persistence and tenacity.

We will support you to learn and develop your skills. You’ll work as part of a team and individually, creating web content to make our online shopping experience a class leading user experience for our customers, always delivering projects to the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities as our Shopify Developer:

• Maintaining our current Shopify websites, fixing errors and improving the code
• Investigating and troubleshooting problems
• Creating new visually appealing web pages and sections
• Creating and modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework
• Interpreting graphic or interaction designs in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, liquid, and timber
• Programming interaction with JavaScript or utilising libraries
• Maintaining/installing plugins and integrations
• Delivering easy to use CMS customisation options for the marketing team
• Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device compatibility
• Testing for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility
• Understand, Plan, Develop, Test and Document Web implementations as part of a team
• Conducting observational user testing or reviewing designs against usability heuristics

Requirements to be our Shopify Developer:

• Be UK Based and hold Right to Work status
• 2+ years’ experience developing for commercial websites
• Up to date knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
• Experience is Content Management Systems – specifically Shopify
• Experience working with CMS themes and plugins
• Enjoy investigating and fixing problems
• Great time management and organisation skills
• Customer focused mentality
• Experience and knowledge of mobile development and optimisation including responsive methodology
• Caring Developer: you recognise that your code and work impact not only the customers, but also the rest of the team. You conduct yourself with professionalism and respect not only in meetings but also in how you structure your code and in the documentation that you write
• Team player inspiring and sharing your knowledge with others
• Independent: you are self-motivated, take initiative, and are a strong communicator. You are results-driven and willing to learn and improve yourself.

Desirable experience to be our Shopify Developer:

• Experience using Shopify 2.0 and Sanity
• Shopify integrations
• Visitor tracking, e.g. Cookies, GTM and Google Analytics
• Experience in dynamic personalisation tools, e.g. Fresh Relevance
• Exposure to JavaScript frameworks, e.g. Vue.js and Nuxt.js
• Experience using creative interface tools, e.g. Adobe XD and Figma

Pay & Benefits you will receive as our Shopify Developer:

Salary: up to £40,000 depending on experience plus;

• Generous Staff Discount
• Discretionary Bonus
• Flexible start and end times (core hours 9.30-3.30pm)
• Hybrid / UK Remote working options
• Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
• Company Contribution Pension
• Access to RetailTRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support)
• Access to RetailCURe (Financial Support)
• Access to the Pavers Academy for learning and development opportunities

About Us

We are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers. We always try and do the right thing by our people.

Pavers has been trading for over 50 years and is a highly profitable family owned-and-run retail business with a strong balance sheet, over 170 retail locations, and a rapidly expanding digital presence. We also own the Jones Bootmaker and Herring Shoes footwear businesses, remain acquisitive, and employ over 1600 people. We were recently recognised by Best Companies as one of the UK’s Top 10 Retail Employers, are Carbon Neutral, have donated more than £1m to charity in the past 3 years, are currently applying for B Corp accreditation, and are imminently undertaking a significant expansion and modernisation of our Warehouse, Head Office, and Retail estates.

We strive for diversity of thinking across the business and believe strongly in supporting our local communities. In 2018 we donated over £2.2m to establish the Pavers Foundation, with the specific purpose of providing grants for causes important to all our colleagues in the areas of health, education, and community. In terms of the environment, we are constantly seeking to reduce our impact. Since 2021 we have been fully carbon neutral, and we also have one of the largest solar arrays in the North-East of England on our warehouse generating clean energy. Because every year we give a percentage of our annual profits to our Foundation, our overarching aim is to be financially successful, but to achieve this in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Shopify Developer!