UI/UX Designer - Shopify

UI/UX Designer

Work Location: Woodland, CA (Remote)

Job Description:

Job Functions

• Design and wireframe new features for our eCommerce technology stack
• Build from scratch or modify existing cutting-edge features for our eCommerce technology stack
• Provide technical support or leadership in the development and continual improvement of service
• Work closely within a cross-functional team
• Contribute fully baked well tested features
• Write and develop technical solutions
• Provide estimates to the required level of accuracy for stories and tasks
• Test deliverables against a user story acceptance criteria

Create technical documentation

• Design and build theme features that are scalable across various designs and requirements
• Design features in Figma for our internal tooling as part of the eCommerce technology stack
• Build website features that are accessible and compliant with requirements across different countries
• Build performant website features utilizing best practices
• Build website features that work across various browsers
• Build themes that utilize the latest Shopify technology including section and theme blocks and utilizing Section Rendering API and core search discovery and filtering capabilities
• Designing and building features into preexisting structures while adhering to current UI/UX designs
• Demonstrate ability to write clear concise and well documented code
• Turn feature requests and user stories into wireframes designs in Figma with the understanding that it needs to be adaptable to various website designs
• Improve design fundamentals and user experience of the Shopify Theme
• Build UI Extensions for Checkout Extensibility and Customer Accounts
• Build dataLayer events to push to GTM

Skills & Abilities

• 8 years of work experience in software design and development and hands-on experience in building UI heavy experiences
• Strong proficiency in modern design patterns and development languages including JavaScript, Typescript, React, HTML, and CSS Liquid
• Strong proficiency in Figma and design principles
• Experienced with writing custom Web Components
• Experience working in large-scale international eCommerce teams
• Solid grounding with common design patterns and development best practices
• Ability to problem solve and execute tasks with accuracy in a high-pressure fast-paced agile environment
• Customer-first mentality with ability to empathize and create customer loyalty
• Capable of learning new technologies and platforms quickly and able to apply them to solve complex problems
• Experience with version control systems Bitbucket/GitHub
• Experience working within an agile team

Nice to have

• Experience with unit testing and Playwright
• Ability to write unit tests when implementing user stories Develop code for testability
• Knowledge and understanding of how Shopify Pixel and tracking in Checkout Extensibility works
• Experience with Shopify Checkout UI Extensions
• Experience using Section Rendering API to update parts of a page without reloading the full page
• Experience with CICD tools including Github Actions