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Tech Lead - E-Commerce / Agency

Job description

About the company

Our client is a leading Australasian E-commerce Web development agency. With offices based in Auckland & Sydney, their teams made of bunch of extremely passionate creatives who specialise in Shopify and BigCommerce. They focus on delivering creative, analytics based digital commerce and omni channel strategies to their clients and they're proud to be partnering with some of the most reputable organisations across ANZ.

This is somewhere you will be presented endless opportunities to advance your career within the business. They genuinely care about their people and have a vibrant, collaborative and empowering work environment. 

About the role 

To be successful in this role, you will be a leader who is passionate about web
technologies, has an interest in eCommerce and is excited to grow their business while contributing to the success of their partners. They're looking for someone that is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for their clients. You will be a strong advocate of excellent development practices and always look to improve our standards and technical documentation. As a subject matter expert, you will be comfortable being that go-to person and you will have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, feeling very comfortable talking through work with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities 

  • Be the go-to technical expert for Shopify and BigCommerce technical capabilities as well as the broader ecosystem of eCommerce applications
  • Work closely with your Development Team to optimise the applications to ensure best experience and to provide high quality solutions ensuring robustness, usability and general reliability by following best practices including well documented code to ensure maintainability.
  • Continually discover, evaluate and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.
  • Provide escalation support, coaching and mentoring to other team members, individually and collectively to improve their skills, understand the strategy, refine ways of working, and set internal customer expectations.
  • Be accountable for the accuracy of developer time and cost estimates and contribute to solutions
What you need?
  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of Shopify and BigCommerce SaaS platforms including building and launching stores, configuring third-party apps and migrating data.
  • Min of 5 years of similar experience ideally in agency space.
  • Have excellent organisational, communication, and written skills. You must be able to talk about technology intelligently and passionately to all levels of an organisation including Developers, Architects, and senior management (technical and non-technical)
  • 5 years experience in web development using PHP, Python or Java 
  • MySQL database experience
  • HTML, CSS, jQuery, DHTML/JavaScript development experience
  • Jira and Agile development methodology
What's in it for you?
  • An opportunity to join ANZ's leading E-Commerce agency, surround yourself with the best in the business!
  • Clear, well defined and achievable career development
  • Located in Takapuna, probably the best office space in the country
  • Supportive, collaborative, and caring team
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual social events, awards etc.
  • EAP programme with funded sessions
Keen to hear more? Please contact Yaman on yaman@84recruitment.co.nz