Web Developer

About By Association Only (BAO)

BAO is a globally award-winning Shopify Plus eCommerce agency based in the UK. We’re a senior team of designers, developers and marketers that are committed to exceptional standards in eCommerce. We work explicitly with Shopify Plus merchants - generally in the fashion, cosmetics and luxury goods sectors for brands all over the world in competitive global markets.

We work in a studio where independence, autonomy and doing the right thing is at the centre of everything we do. As an agency we’re on a mission to work with the world's most ambitious eCommerce brands and we do this in an environment that is smart, open, fast-paced, fun and rewarding.

Although we're headquartered in Cambridge, we are staffed by around 70% permanently remote employees that are located all over the UK. All of our team members are full time employees.

Job Summary

We’re looking for talented, conscientious, and ambitious developers who want to work on exciting e-Commerce projects for global brands. We’re drawn to people who are naturally curious, enjoy problem solving, and share our ambition to build a global agency with a reputation for excellence in both product and service.

Skills / Experience

We feel passionately that the role will excite the right individual due to the opportunity to work with some fantastic brands, from ambitious funded startups through to large enterprise merchants across a wide variety of market sectors. 

• Hands-on experience working with an e-Commerce platform such as Shopify, Magento, or BigCommerce
• At least 2 years experience contributing to active projects/websites
• Ability to write well-structured, semantic, and accessible HTML and CSS
• An excellent understanding of JavaScript, with strong knowledge of Web Components
• Solid understanding of core web development principles and front-end performance best practices
• Building complex interactions in a performant way, with a high degree of polish
• Strong awareness of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements
• Experience working with modern web stacks including build tools, transpilers, linters, build and CI tools
• Solid understanding of Git and version control and working within a team of multiple developers
  

Bonus Points for:

• Working in an agency or creative studio environment delivering websites for a variety of clients
• Hands-on technical experience with an e-Commerce platform
• A deep understanding of one or more specific client-side areas like animation, performance, or accessibility for example
• Experience with a common back-end language or framework, preferably Ruby or Node

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary DOE
• 20 days of annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• + 1 extra day per year served
• + 3/4 'BAO Thank You' Days (additional annual leave) each year around the Xmas period
• High-spec computer equipment issued from day 1
• Training budget for courses or online training relevant to your role
  
• Interesting, high-profile clients
• No micro-management culture
• Flexible remote working or office based or a combination of the two - depending on your location and preference
• Social events throughout the year
• Clear career progression paths with a Banding structure specific to all Web Developer roles

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Become part of our Carbon Positive workforce

Every one of our staff members are climate positive. BAO contributes a monthly payment per employee, planting trees around the world on behalf of its team. This means as an employee of BAO you’ll be offsetting your entire carbon footprint, including emissions from your home, personal travel, holidays, food, hobbies and more.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE - SERIOUSLY!