Full Stack Engineer

About GiddyUp:

GiddyUp is an end-to-end DTC commercialization platform. Our mission is to help the best products win by connecting brands and shoppers worldwide. 

We are disrupting the commercialization model - traditionally, growth starts with funding and brands need large marketing budgets in marketing, creative, media, and agencies to have a high-growth go-to-market strategy. GiddyUp democratizes commercialization - our large network of marketing partners bring innovative products to shoppers through our proprietary performance commerce platform and the market decides the growth trajectory of the products. 

Having already generated over $1 billion in sales – GiddyUp’s Partner Commerce platform enables brands to develop, launch, and profitably scale partner marketing campaigns across every online channel and international market – on a 100% performance-only basis.

About The Role

GiddyUp’s Full Stack Engineer is responsible for building and working on our frontend stack (vue js + php YII based backend) and for leading the production, modification, and maintenance of websites and web application user interfaces. This person will be a senior member of our established web design team and will turn creative designs into working websites. The person in this role will also work closely with developers to implement their server-side code in order to develop complex, interactive, content managed, and database driven websites. This UI/UX focused front-end engineer will work closely with the Development team in a full stack role across frontend and the backend supporting it. The person in this role should combine exceptional coding skills with leading-edge design chops and has the moxie to meet this challenge. This person should have both a talent and a passion  for building beautiful, lightning-fast user-focused content, and doesn’t mind innovating along the way. GiddyUp's engineers are expected to have a  high degree of leadership and expertise in their daily work, strongly hold defensible ideas, and advocate for what they believe is right. At the same time, they need to eagerly hear differing opinions and sometimes be proven wrong, constantly evaluate tradeoffs and alternate routes to success, and walk through fire to help out other members of the team.  

Ultimately, the person in this role will be responsible for translating our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications and ensuring great user experience. This person must be curious about new digital technologies and aspire to combine usability with visual design.

What You'll Do:

• Build  beautiful content using JavaScript / HTML5 / Tailwind CSS
• Work on backend system design and troubleshoot. Experience with any PHP framework e.g. YII or Laravel is a huge plus. Experience with Craft CMS is ideal.
• Support production flows
• Responsible for coding and resolving technical issues with web pages, funnels and branded sites
• Perform code reviews, as needed
• Teach developers new frameworks and languages to support front end applications
• Collaborate with various departments on optimization efforts to drive more revenue
• Be part of an on-call schedule for issues out of work hours
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Move fast in a high-paced environment, keep an eye on the fine details, keep what you build running at scale
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork: works collaboratively with managers, colleagues, and external stakeholders to achieve identified goals and objectives; works to create alignment across teams; is consistent, predictable, and easy to work with
• Communication: conveys information in a clear, accurate, and appropriate way in verbal and written communications; considers tone, attitude, and intention when communicating with a coworker, group or external stakeholder; acknowledges that one’s experience and opinion is one’s own
• Ownership: takes ownership of work, projects, challenges and outcomes; fulfills commitments and addresses blockers; is self-directed and consistent in meeting job requirements and objectives
• Technological Fluency: is proficient in the use of work-related software, technology, and tools required to perform one or more of the responsibilities related to one’s role; stays up to speed on new technologies and leverages technology to increase productivity and efficiency
• Adaptability: Ability to meet the changing technical landscape, continually evolve skills, learn knew technologies, and embrace new development processes
• Software Development: The ability  to plan, design, create, amend, verify, test and document new and amended software components in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders
• Velocity: Ability to meet the velocity needs of the business, measured by the the number of story points an employee achieves each sprint

Tools & Technology:

• HTML5
• CSS3/Sass
• JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Vue js
• Heavily customized PHP based Craft CMS backend
• GitHub actions / Terraform deployment pipeline
• Rest API design

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, visual, design or related field or experience
• 5+ years of development experience with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• A portfolio of Web design work you’ve done
• Experience with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Deep understanding of layout aesthetics
• Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator and content management systems
• Knowledge of relational database design
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of design patterns
• Experience with test driven development

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Experience with PHP backend systems, Laravel or YII
• Experience with a CMS, ideally on both the user side and with plugins and internals
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, visual, design or related field or experience
• Experience working at a startup
• Experience working in the e-commerce industry