Senior Full Stack Web Developer

The Company

Collective Shift is on a mission to help the everyday investor navigate the world of cryptocurrency through community and education. We are a growing scale-up company with individuals located in multiple regions across the globe but predominantly Melbourne, Australia.

In October 2020 we launched our education & research platform that now hosts over 3,000 members. We’re looking to rapidly scale up our company to deliver our platform on a global scale.

We’re focused, and demand excellence, but there’s laughter in every meeting because we thoroughly enjoy the work we do and the impact it has. We’re constantly growing, learning, adapting, and trying new things. Choc-chip biscuits, caramel pudding and coffee are a few of our favourite things.

The Role

We are looking for a talented web developer (particularly WordPress) that has a focus on user experience and continual product improvement. We have an existing platform that went live in October and has a team of agency web developers working on it plus a lead developer in house. We now need additional technical expertise to add to our internal development team.

As the successful applicant, you will be reporting directly to the Lead Developer and you’ll be working with our content, product and member success teams to iterate on our product and deliver value based on market feedback. Every day we come to work and think ‘how can we deliver more value to customers and make things better’.

You will have 3+ years of experience as a web developer and be comfortable collaborating in a team and developing innovative solutions to facilitate value for members.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop technical and functional aspects of the platform
• Responsible for enhancements, bug fixes and quality improvement to the platform
• Taking development tasks from initial ideas through to building, testing, completion and deployment
• Share technical solutions and product ideas through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions
• Advocate and champion modern best practices techniques
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or an extensive web portfolio
• Excellent understanding of website development in WordPress including HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL
• WooCommerce experience
• Excellent problem solving and investigative skills (using MySQL, PHP error logs, etc)
• Git familiarity & understanding
• Experience with membership platforms
• VPS optimisation, management & configuration (e.g. Ubuntu, AWS, Azure - highly regarded)
• Excellent communication and task management skills
• Experience working in multidisciplinary team environments. Ideally with a mix of internal and external designers, content writers, developers and testers

Highly Desirable:

• A keen eye for data – we love metrics to drive product decisions
• Atlassian Bitbucket & pipeline deployments (or similar)
• Server side JS, React, SASS
• A strong passion or interest for Cryptocurrency and Finance

The Good stuff (what we offer you!)

• Be located anywhere in the world!
• Company laptop and home office equipment provided.
• Flexible hours and location to fit in with your lifestyle.
• Professional training courses as required to meet your personal and the organization’s goals.

How to Apply

Please submit your application with a Resume and Cover Letter outlining your experience in web development and why you believe you are suitable for the role.

Links:

• Life At Collective Shift
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• Website