Who we are:

Were Orbit, and we create Shopify apps that help merchants push the frontiers of their online sales. At Orbit, youll be joining a fun, creative, and collaborative team that builds awesome products to empower Shopify merchants. As a remote-first company, our team is located across Canada, the US, and beyond. We offer our employees flexibility in where they work and how they work. We would be over the moon if youd join us!

About the role:

As part of our product team, our Developers work collaboratively with our development team to design and build functionality for our apps that is usable, extensible, and performant.

Our apps are embedded in the Shopify admin, and display in our customers Shopify stores. Our developers are experienced with React, Node, and Elixir (no prior Elixir experience is necessary) and contribute across the full stack.

At Orbit, we trust our developers to find the right way to build solutions that meet goals. Following the Shape Up methodology, we give our teams projects, and give them the space and autonomy to design a solution: defining their own tasks, building the solution incrementally and collaboratively, adapting an approach based on the learnings made along the way.

As a Developer, you'll:

• Contribute to all aspects of Shopify app development for our suite of apps, in React, TypeScript, Elixir, and Node.js
• Make design & planning decisions as a team, as part of a flexible agile process
• Keep up with the latest developments in our technologies and in the tools available from Shopify, identifying opportunities to leverage for our apps
• Contribute in improving our development process and practices
• Use data (analytics, instrumentation) to track outcomes and guide future work
• Grow our development teams skills through regular collaboration and mentorship

Youll bring your skills in:

• Collaboratively solving problems and sharing knowledge with others when solutions are found
• Working in an agile team environment, regularly making goal-oriented decisions and identifying the most impactful areas to focus
• Holding context on complex solutions, thinking critically about adapting architecture with new learnings, identifying opportunities to improve along the way
• Leaving things better than you found them - advocating for improvements to the teams practices, processes, and tools, to help us reliably deliver quality results
• Helping team members improve their skills & knowledge during the course of the work

Required experience:

• At least 3 years overall software development experience
• Proficiency with JavaScript/ES6, React, HTML & CSS, Git

If you have these skills that's a huge plus!

• Developing on the Shopify platform, or with Liquid
• Developing interfaces with the help of a design system, such as Shopify Polaris, and with accessibility in mind
• Developing for ecommerce on different platforms - Wordpress, BigCommerce, etc.
• Writing with TypeScript and common frontend JavaScript libraries such as Next, Vue, or Angular
• Experience with functional programming and interest in learning & writing functional code with Elixir

Feel free to include a cover letter with your application wed love to better understand your background and experiences. We value diverse perspectives and believe that skills are transferable!

Why join Orbit?

We are a company built on creativity, teamwork, and employee well-being. We trust our team members and encourage them to design their work schedules so that they can get the most out of their day. We value challenging ourselves and others to ask questions that uncover better solutions for the future, and we get joy from being around fun, communication-focused folks who want to make a difference at their work!

Some of our perks include:

• Health benefits (health, dental, EAP) (CAN & USA only)
• RRSP matching up to 4% (CAN & USA only)
• $1000 company-sponsored wellness allowance (CAN & USA only)
• $500 home office set up allowance
• $500 annual learning & development allowance
• 15 paid days off annually, plus 1 additional day for each year of employment
• Paid parental leave (CAN & USA only)
• Fully remote with a flexible work schedule
• Company-provided hardware and software
  
• Opportunity for growth as the company grows
• Exposure and learning across teams and services

Compensation

The Developer role spans a wide breadth of experience at Orbit. Our compensation bands reflect the potentially broad range of candidates and experience levels that we are open to hiring for this role.

We offer a starting salary from $80,000 -$110,000 CAD for candidates in British Columbia. The starting salary range does not reflect total compensation, which includes salary, benefits, RRSP, an annual education allowance and other perks.

We bring passion and energy to our work, and believe that work should be rewarding, interesting, and come at a sustainable pace. As long as you have a strong internet connection, youll be all set to join this dynamic team!

* Remote: 5 hours overlap with 8am-4pm Pacific Time

At Orbit, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Just as our customers come from a broad range of backgrounds, so do we! If you're interested in this role but don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may be a good fit for this position or another opportunity we have.