Merchstack is looking for an experienced Frontend Developer to help architect, build, and evolve our frontend operator experiences. We’re seeking developers who think about the Frontend in terms of systems, reuse, flexibility, and performance.To succeed in this role, you will need a breadth of experience working in data-rich applications, an eye for clean design, a thorough understanding of modern web architecture, excellent communication skills, and a practical, non-dogmatic approach to problem-solving.What you’ll do<ul><li>Develop new user-facing web features using React and 3rd party frameworks inside of the React eco-system.</li><li>Build highly responsive UI components using React and TailwindCSS.</li><li>Optimize our application for maximum speed and scalability.</li><li>Ensure web designs are responsive and architected in a scalable fashion.</li><li>Build engaging, easy-to-use, accessible interfaces that delight and empower users.</li><li>Work with design and product functions to implement designs.</li><li>Work with the backend engineers to ensure a seamless user experience.</li><li>Build reusable code for future use.</li><li>Provide clarity and mentorship to junior developers.</li></ul>The Stack<ul><li>React, Typescript and TailwindCSS</li><li>Apollo GraphQL with subscriptions powering client-side events.</li><li>Cloudflare as a CDN for static assets and workers caching API response data.</li><li>Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>Git via the Gitflow branching model</li></ul>What we look for<ul><li>5+ years of proven experience building stateful, data-orientated SPAs with React and tools inside of the React ecosystem.</li><li>Confident in leveraging relational data sources at scale, this includes but is not limited to a deep understanding of data cardinality, data structures and efficient client-side memory management for large datasets and fast-moving dimensions.</li><li>SASS, CSS and HTML and an understanding of CSS modules or CSS in JS</li><li>Advanced Typescript knowledge and desire to use more advanced Typescript concepts to reduce boiler-plate.</li><li>Will not write O(n!) code.</li><li>Good understanding of Internet protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket and demonstratable web performance tuning skills</li><li>Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (version control, tooling, testing, etc.)</li></ul>Bonus points<ul><li>Experience with visualization frameworks such as D3.js.</li><li>Webpack/Rollup.</li><li>Functional understanding of service-based architecture.</li><li>Packaging container-based applications with an emphasis on small footprints.</li><li>An active Github account, showcasing your own projects</li></ul>About you<ul><li>You are detail-oriented and focus on delivering seamless, reliable experiences.</li><li>You care about code quality and are committed to writing strongly typed, well-tested code.</li><li>You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe.</li><li>You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall</li><li>You approach problems with curiosity, creativity, and flexibility.</li><li>You strive to foster relationships in order ensure healthy debate.</li><li>You show gratitude and give back.</li></ul>

Senior Frontend Developer (SaaS)

Merchstack is hiring for a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Southeast Asia to help us build the future of commerce. We're leading the development of an open source commerce platform owned by one of the most significant and recognizable technology companies in the United States. This is a hands on role in a small team. You’ll have the opportunity to help shape the fastest growing open-source commerce platform in the world. We’re looking for people who are highly communicative, self-directed, with well-developed critical thinking skills.You’ll be responsible for solving problems, developing product features, squashing bugs, scaling services, writing great documentation, and maintaining the core codebase. You’ll play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into reliable, well-tested software.ResponsibilitiesHere is a list of the type of work that you’ll be spending the majority of your time on:<ul><li>Develop and ship product features and services</li><li>Develop, support, and improve our GraphQL API</li><li>Write automated unit and integration tests</li><li>Enhance the extensibility of the core codebase</li><li>Identify and implement improvements to the developer experience around our product</li><li>Develop internal systems to make shipping products easier and faster</li><li>Create integrations with 3rd-party partners to extend the overall functionality of the platform</li><li>Work with frontend developers to improve the way that client applications interact with the APIs</li><li>Keep the system up-to-date by integrating changes from upstream packages</li><li>Actively communicate status of tasks and projects to peers</li><li>Write clear, effective developer documentation</li><li>Write blog posts about interesting ways to extend the product</li></ul>About YouWe're flexible on most of the points below. They are less requirements than they are ideals. We're looking for the right person to work with, not to tick off checkboxes.<ul><li>You have experience taking high quality projects from start to finish and are confident in your ability to deliver visible results in a remote environment with limited supervision.</li><li>You have developed and supported distributed, scalable, and highly automated software systems in a production environment.</li><li>You are deeply familiar with Node.js and its best practices.</li><li>You have extensive experience designing web-based APIs in REST or GraphQL.</li><li>You’re willing to put your project on hold to help a teammate via pairing or teaching concepts and patterns.</li><li>You enjoy collaborating with designers, infrastructure engineers, and product owners.</li><li>You have worked in a professional software environment building and shipping products for at least five years.</li><li>You’re a proficient communicator and have excellent written and verbal English.</li><li>You have a passion for Open Source, eCommerce, or both!</li><li>You’re comfortable working remotely.</li></ul>About Our Stack<ul><li>NodeJS, Apollo, GraphQL, MongoDB</li><li>Docker and Kubernetes </li></ul>Why work with us? 🚀<ul><li>Ability to take real ownership of major parts of an open source commerce platform.</li><li>Opportunity to build a product and a framework, not just a website.</li><li>Top caliber team with deep engineering, design, and product expertise.</li><li>Work remotely within a distributed team environment.</li><li>Unlimited PTO that you can really take.</li><li>Flexible working schedule.</li></ul>About MerchstackMerchstack partners with companies on their journey to build, launch, and scale modern eCommerce stores. We work with market-leading technologies and our own internal products to help our customers achieve ambitious digital experiences and unlock new growth opportunities. We are a remote-only company with employees all over the world, including the Philippines, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We are a small team with big ambitions and value people who are driven towards delivery and thrive on autonomy and trust.Salary Range: $60k to $80k US DollarsPosition Type: Full-timeLocation: Preferably in South or Southeast Asia but must overlap +/- 4 hours of GMT+8 every day

Senior NodeJS Developer

Job DescriptionMerchstack is looking for an experienced Frontend Developer to help architect, build, and evolve our frontend operator experiences. We’re seeking developers who think about the Frontend in terms of systems, reuse, flexibility, and performance.
To succeed in this role, you will need a breadth of experience working in data-rich applications, an eye for clean design, a thorough understanding of modern web architecture, excellent communication skills, and a practical, non-dogmatic approach to problem-solving.
What you’ll do
<ul>
<li>Develop new user-facing web features using React and 3rd party frameworks inside of the React eco-system.</li>
<li>Build highly responsive UI components using React and TailwindCSS.</li>
<li>Optimize our application for maximum speed and scalability.</li>
<li>Ensure web designs are responsive and architected in a scalable fashion.</li>
<li>Build engaging, easy-to-use, accessible interfaces that delight and empower users.</li>
<li>Work with design and product functions to implement designs.</li>
<li>Work with the backend engineers to ensure a seamless user experience.</li>
<li>Build reusable code for future use.</li>
<li>Provide clarity and mentorship to junior developers.</li>
</ul>
The Stack
<ul>
<li>React, Typescript and TailwindCSS</li>
<li>Apollo GraphQL with subscriptions powering client-side events.</li>
<li>Cloudflare as a CDN for static assets and workers caching API response data.</li>
<li>Docker and Kubernetes</li>
<li>Git via the Gitflow branching model</li>
</ul>
What we look for
<ul>
<li>5+ years of proven experience building stateful, data-orientated SPAs with React and tools inside of the React ecosystem.</li>
<li>Confident in leveraging relational data sources at scale, this includes but is not limited to a deep understanding of data cardinality, data structures and efficient client-side memory management for large datasets and fast-moving dimensions.</li>
<li>SASS, CSS and HTML and an understanding of CSS modules or CSS in JS</li>
<li>Advanced Typescript knowledge and desire to use more advanced Typescript concepts to reduce boiler-plate.</li>
<li>Will not write O(n!) code.</li>
<li>Good understanding of Internet protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket and demonstratable web performance tuning skills</li>
<li>Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (version control, tooling, testing, etc.)</li>
</ul>
Bonus points
<ul>
<li>Experience with visualization frameworks such as D3.js.</li>
<li>Webpack/Rollup.</li>
<li>Functional understanding of service-based architecture.</li>
<li>Packaging container-based applications with an emphasis on small footprints.</li>
<li>An active Github account, showcasing your own projects</li>
</ul>
About you
<ul>
<li>You are detail-oriented and focus on delivering seamless, reliable experiences.</li>
<li>You care about code quality and are committed to writing strongly typed, well-tested code.</li>
<li>You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe.</li>
<li>You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall</li>
<li>You approach problems with curiosity, creativity, and flexibility.</li>
<li>You strive to foster relationships in order ensure healthy debate.</li>
<li>You show gratitude and give back.</li>
</ul>

Remote Senior Frontend Developer (SaaS)

Job DescriptionMerchstack is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help architect, build, and evolve our SaaS product on the backend. We’re seeking engineers who think about UI/UX in terms of systems, reuse, flexibility, and performance.
To succeed in this role, you will need a breadth of experience working in modelling data structures for data-rich applications, a passion for object-oriented design patterns and an unparalleled ability to think about individual work items, holistically across the design of the entire application.
We are looking for candidates in the UK/EU, India or Africa. All candidates MUST be able to overlap most of your day with leadership in the UK.
Salary Range: $60 - $80k
What you’ll do
<ul>
<li>Design and implement new GraphQL queries and mutations to either meet customer demand or UI/UX requirements.</li>
<li>Contribute to the overall stability and performance of our application.</li>
<li>Optimize our application for maximum speed and scalability.</li>
<li>Build new data providers for Merchstack in the form of composable plugins.</li>
<li>Take ownership of dependencies in our code base i.e. ensuring that we are reasonably patched.</li>
<li>Work with the VP of Engineering to plan out new prospective pieces of work ahead of time, such as architectural design and infrastructure requirements.</li>
<li>Work with DevOps / DBA functions to ensure that new and existing features are being backed and observed by appropriate hardware/infrastructure.</li>
</ul>
The Stack
<ul>
<li>Typescript, NestJS</li>
<li>SQL / TypeORM</li>
<li>Apollo GraphQL</li>
<li>ElasticSearch</li>
<li>Redis</li>
<li>AWS / Elastic Kubernetes Service</li>
</ul>
What we look for
<ul>
<li>4+ years building object-oriented data-driven applications at scale.</li>
<li>Confident in leveraging relational data sources at scale, this includes but is not limited to a deep understanding of data cardinality, data structures and efficient client-side memory management for large datasets and fast-moving dimensions.</li>
<li>Experience leveraging IoC containers for dependency injection, with a full understanding of the 3 main dependency injection lifecycles.</li>
<li>Advanced Typescript knowledge and desire to use more advanced Typescript concepts to reduce boiler-plate.</li>
<li>Will not write O(n!) code.</li>
<li>Good understanding of Internet protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket and demonstratable web performance tuning skills</li>
<li>Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (version control, tooling, testing, etc.)</li>
<li>An active Github account, showcasing your own projects</li>
<li>Deep experience leveraging ORMs for data modelling and data access concerns. Should understand both the pros and cons of using an ORM vs. raw queries.</li>
<li>Has worked with one or all of the following: NestJS, TypeORM, Apollo GraphQL</li>
</ul>
Bonus points
<ol>
<li>Any experience in another exclusively OOP C-like language, for instance: C# or Java.</li>
<li>Elasticsearch</li>
<li>Functional understanding of service-based architecture.</li>
<li>Packaging container-based applications with an emphasis on small footprints.</li>
</ol>
About you
<ul>
<li>You are detail-oriented and focus on delivering seamless, reliable experiences.</li>
<li>You care about code quality and are committed to writing strongly typed, well-tested code.</li>
<li>You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe.</li>
<li>You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall</li>
<li>You approach problems with curiosity, creativity, and flexibility.</li>
<li>You strive to foster relationships in order to ensure healthy debate.</li>
<li>You show gratitude and give back.</li>
</ul>
About Merchstack
Merchstack partners with companies on their journey to build, launch, and scale modern eCommerce stores. We work with market-leading technologies and our own internal products to help our customers achieve ambitious digital experiences and unlock new growth opportunities. We are a remote-only company with employees all over the world, including the Philippines, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We are a small team with big ambitions and value people who are driven towards delivery and thrive on autonomy and trust.

Senior Backend Engineer

Merchstack is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help architect, build, and evolve our SaaS product on the backend. We’re seeking engineers who think about the backend in terms of systems, reuse, flexibility, and performance.To succeed in this role, you will need a breadth of experience working in modelling data structures for data-rich applications, a passion for object-oriented design patterns and an unparalleled ability to think about individual work items, holistically across the design of the entire application.What you’ll do<ul><li>Design and implement new GraphQL queries and mutations to either meet customer demand or UI/UX requirements.</li><li>Contribute to the overall stability and performance of our application.</li><li>Optimize our application for maximum speed and scalability.</li><li>Build new data providers for Merchstack in the form of composable plugins.</li><li>Take ownership of dependencies in our code base i.e. ensuring that we are reasonably patched.</li><li>Work with the VP of Engineering to plan out new prospective pieces of work ahead of time, such as architectural design and infrastructure requirements.</li><li>Work with DevOps / DBA functions to ensure that new and existing features are being backed and observed by appropriate hardware/infrastructure.</li></ul>The Stack<ul><li>Typescript, NestJS</li><li>SQL / TypeORM</li><li>Apollo GraphQL</li><li>ElasticSearch</li><li>Redis</li><li>AWS / Elastic Kubernetes Service</li></ul>What we look for<ul><li>4+ years building object-oriented data-driven applications at scale.</li><li>Confident in leveraging relational data sources at scale, this includes but is not limited to a deep understanding of data cardinality, data structures and efficient client-side memory management for large datasets and fast-moving dimensions.</li><li>Experience leveraging IoC containers for dependency injection, with a full understanding of the 3 main dependency injection lifecycles.</li><li>Advanced Typescript knowledge and desire to use more advanced Typescript concepts to reduce boiler-plate.</li><li>Will not write O(n!) code.</li><li>Good understanding of Internet protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket and demonstratable web performance tuning skills</li><li>Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (version control, tooling, testing, etc.)</li><li>An active Github account, showcasing your own projects</li><li>Deep experience leveraging ORMs for data modelling and data access concerns. Should understand both the pros and cons of using an ORM vs. raw queries.</li><li>Has worked with one or all of the following: NestJS, TypeORM, Apollo GraphQL</li></ul>Bonus points<ul><li>Any experience in another exclusively OOP C-like language, for instance: C# or Java.</li><li>Elasticsearch</li><li>Functional understanding of service-based architecture.</li><li>Packaging container-based applications with an emphasis on small footprints.</li></ul>About you<ul><li>You are detail-oriented and focus on delivering seamless, reliable experiences.</li><li>You care about code quality and are committed to writing strongly typed, well-tested code.</li><li>You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe.</li><li>You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall</li><li>You approach problems with curiosity, creativity, and flexibility.</li><li>You strive to foster relationships in order ensure healthy debate.</li><li>You show gratitude and give back.</li></ul>Salary and compensation$50,000 — $90,000/year

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