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We work in a wide range of disciplines including web apps, ecommerce platforms, and mobile applications.
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Tech Lead
United States, Canada, EMEA
With hubs in New York City, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Berlin, Half Helix is a digital agency that specializes in solving e-commerce problems for our clients. We are a developer-founded company with a strong engineering focus, marrying our engineering chops with exceptional design and production teams. We are a company that welcomes remote-first collaboration and as such, are looking for a strong Technical Lead to join our team. We are open to this position being anywhere in the world so long as working EST or PST hours are OK.
Perks
-Competitive salary and benefits
-Unlimited vacation (just make sure your projects are in good shape)
-Laid back working environment
-Annual offsite in great location (e.g. Mexico City or Isla De Mujeres)
-Summer Fridays
-New Apple gear (e.g. Macbook Pro)
-Annual home office stipend
-Education stipend
-A remote-first culture
As a Technical Lead, you'll be architecting solutions for a wide array of problems. We pride ourselves on being brave creative thinkers who are able to think outside the box to meet the needs of any business selling anything over the internet. We are not of a one-size-fits-all mindset, we learn about our clients and create solutions that meet their specific needs. Just in the last 2 months alone, we have launched large builds for Cravings by Chrissy Teigen, Peloton, and Rothys. So if you're interested in creating a Jamstack frontend using Nuxt, Tailwind, Contentful, and Netlify Functions, or extending our modular approach to Shopify theme development and collaborating on our open-source build and development tools, or creating unique selling experiences using cutting edge platforms like Swell.is, please get in touch!
Perks
-Competitive salary and benefits
-Unlimited vacation (just make sure your projects are in good shape)
-Laid back working environment
-Annual offsite in great location (e.g. Mexico City or Isla De Mujeres)
-Summer Fridays
-New Apple gear (e.g. Macbook Pro)
-Annual home office stipend
-Education stipend
-A remote-first culture
Qualifications
This is a senior level position that requires 5+ years of relevant experience. We are not dogmatic as to where this experience lies since we have members of the team that come from product companies like Shopify, and others who come from a long lineage of agency experience. Both backend and frontend skillsets are valued since we do cater to both frontend and backend challenges.
-Senior level backend or frontend technical skillsets.
-4+ years of web-based software architecture experience. Think rolling out an MVC application, integrating with third-party APIs (+ handling throttle limits), building out Jamstack frontends, creating Shopify themes from the ground up, contributing to open source packages, creating custom API interfaces.
-Knowledge of modern frameworks and coding paradigms. On the frontend, we typically work with Vue.js and React. On the backend, we typically work with RoR and Node.
-Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
-The ability to manage workload, meet deadlines and speak up when needed.
-Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
-Level-headed and positive attitude under pressure.
-A team-first mentality. Speak up when you need help and help those in need.
-Detail orientated mindset. Dive deep into the problems you are solving.
Responsibilities
-Understand client objectives, guiding intake activities like stakeholder interviews.
-Develop prototypes as we consider solutions.
-Guide teams of developers as we turn ideas into digital products.
-Build and maintain trust with clients through excellent communication.
-Promote and extend our best practices and internal tooling.
-Identify risks, oversights and needs early.
-Manage a number of consecutive projects.
Project Manager
United States, Canada, EMEA
Half Helix is a digital agency building, growing, and guiding the next generation of online companies. We work with exciting lifestyle brands such as Cravings by Chrissy Teigen, Peloton, Nike, Revlon, Mack Weldon, Soludos, Ulla Johnson, and more. We are looking for a full-time Project Manager to join our remote-first team and are open to any location in Western Europe. Our main physical hubs are in Berlin, New York, and Toronto.
Perks
-Competitive salary and benefits
-Unlimited vacation
-Laidback working environment
-Annual offsite in Mexico
-Summer Fridays
-New Apple gear (e.g. Macbook Pro)
-Annual home office stipend
-Education stipend
The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that we deliver high-quality work at a high level of service to our clients. They work closely with tech leads, designers and developers to make sure projects are completed on time and on budget. The ideal candidate has excellent organization and problem solving skills with a strong technical knowledge to anticipate issues, remove roadblocks, and manage the client's expectations.
Perks
-Competitive salary and benefits
-Unlimited vacation
-Laidback working environment
-Annual offsite in Mexico
-Summer Fridays
-New Apple gear (e.g. Macbook Pro)
-Annual home office stipend
-Education stipend
Qualifications
We value continuous growth and learning, a team-first mentality, discipline, and a positive attitude. The ideal candidate would possess:
-A passion for building digital platforms and ecommerce.
-Excellent technical skills and familiarity with the fundamentals of web development.
-Familiarity with web design and usability best practices and trends.
-Comfortable working in Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, etc), Microsoft Office Suite, and Apple Keynote.
-Able to learn other tools (Jira, Trello, Slack, Teamgantt).
-Positive Attitude: enthusiastic and able to contribute at any given stage throughout the process; actively takes the lead on a given task and can pitch in wherever help is needed.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to confidently express ideas and also knows when to listen.
-Excellent organizational and time management skills.
-And a desire to learn and grow with the agency!
Responsibilities
-Fully understand the client objectives and project goals and articulate them clearly
-Develop project plans and work with project teams to execute on plans
-Monitor day-to-day activities of project teams and ensure work is progressing as planned
-Manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverables dates are clearly communicated, understood, and executed upon
-Manage resource assignments to the project, and proactively identify resource challenges
-Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/ identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance
-Consistently identify needs that clients may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs
-Consistently manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback
-Communicate and document project status to clients, team members, and management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels
-Create and manage functional specs documentation along with project team members
-Recap and create debriefs for every completed project; facilitate discussions on lessons learned and new knowledge gained; document properly and share
-Oversee and execute on content collection and content population in Content Management Systems
Knowledge & Experience
-3-5 year prior experience working on e-Commerce website projects, either at a retailer or an agency. Preference given to candidates who have demonstrated prior experience working on Shopify and/ or WordPress projects.
-Understanding of basic HTML/ CSS
-Strong understanding of business and functional requirements
-Experience with managing digital projects, especially the design and development of websites
-Understanding of third party applications, platforms, and integrations
-Able to work at our SoHo, NY or Entertainment District, Toronto office
Competencies
-Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills
-Self-motivated, detail-oriented
-Level-headed and positive attitude under pressure
-Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines
-A passion for learning new skills
-Strong web and Mac desktop skills – we use Google Docs, and various web-based tools such as Trello, Slack, Harvest, and etc