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Whitespectre: Experienced Frontend React/Shopify Developer, Headquarters: Remote URL: Whitespectre is a product-centric, technology consultancy for both VC funded start-ups and large, established companies across the US and Europe. We’re also a product incubator with our own applications and B2B SaaS platform. As long-term partners to our clients, we’ve played a critical role in their growth- both through the products we co-create and the expertise and processes we bring. Proudly remote first since 2013, we’re a close-knit team of 75, working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and drive real business impact. What's it like to be an Engineer at Whitespectre? All of our engineers are sharp technical experts with the ability to think like product owners - being able to advocate for code quality as a long-term strategic investment while knowing when to adapt a more start-up mentality to deliver rapid business value. They work with the team to make architecture and implementation decisions, and stay up to date with the latest technologies and approaches. Our Frontend engineers live and breathe pixel perfect design, highly performant frontend implementations and are always implementing for multiple devices. Whitespectre projects use a fully-modern tech stack- toolset includes Node.js/Express, ReactJS, Typescript, Webpack, Shopify, REST/GraphQL, Rails, Postgres, Elastic, CI/CD with Docker, Heroku/AWS, etc. Working smartly is important to us; automation, dynamic environments spin up with new feature branches and slack bot integrations control our production releases. The majority of our projects involve building greenfield applications and our delivery teams typically own products end to end - your thinking and contribution make a big impact!  You can read more about life in our engineering team in this blog post by our Senior Engineer, Eneko. Benefits Competitive salaries, with payment in USD Annual Performance & Salary Reviews, with structured, supported & proactive career management 20 Days PTO & 3 Charity Days annually Funded face-to-face meet ups in Barcelona, as well as South America and Asia Assisted Relocation package up to $5k Flexible working hours for efficient teaming in a 100% remote environment (proudly remote-first for 9 years!) Free English classes & educational expenses support Generous Employee Referral Plan Team Fitness and Charity Initiatives Cultural benefits In addition to the above benefits, we foster an inclusive working environment that provides: Great company environment - check out Glassdoor On-going career guidance & support with your Capability Leader and Mentor working with you to achieve your goals Personalized onboardings Opportunity to contribute to company-level initiatives Work with a broad range of best-in-class technologies Cross-company knowledge groups - improve your expertise, share your learnings and work with different technologies and tools Regular brown bag learning sessions An emphasis on work-life balance    This is the right position for you if want- To build frontends on Shopify or other headless commerce platforms The challenge of collaborating with business stakeholders and Product Managers to advocate for technology solutions while bearing in mind the tradeoffs for business results The responsibility of designing new architectures and being confident to justify your technology decisions. (Plus debating and recognizing when a colleague has an even better idea!) The opportunity to go outside your core expertise and strengthen skills with other technologies and learn more An environment where excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are valued and honed. A culture where people from different backgrounds interact, collaborate and reach a shared goal The “check the box” Requirements 3+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of HTML/CSS/animation/ Javascript) experience Have worked on Shopify projects with multiple developers on the team Experience contributing to technical decision-making within a team Can work full-time with a significant crossover with the core hours: 11 am - 7 pm Central European Time Live outside of the US. Please, no recruitment agencies. Interested in applying? Apply by completing the form below - and we’ll get back to you. Candidates enjoy meeting our FE Technical Leads, and discussing interesting coding challenges as part of our updated selection process. Or email us with any questions on frontend-jobs@whitespectre.com. Our process includes the following: A 30 minute video call with our Talent Acquisition team to understand your experience & expectations A 60 minute technical interview including a live code working sessions with a lead engineer to explore your technical capabilities Final interview(s) with the company leadership to confirm fit & finalize your offer  To apply:

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