UX Developer (Toronto)

Localised is local-first ecommerce. We have reimagined how brands and shoppers transact across borders, languages, currencies and cultures. With our own all-inclusive global ecommerce platform, we rapidly design, build, operate, optimize and market highly localised country-specific ecommerce sites in foreign markets for coveted brands. We help brands go global by being local. We are based in Toronto, New York, London, Warsaw, Bucharest and Hong Kong, and are proud to have our clients include Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, American Eagle Outfitters, ASOS, Saks Fifth Avenue and more. We are what brands expanding globally do next.

We're looking for a UX Developer. You'll help manage the timely deployment of content and UX innovation across a fleet of fashion, beauty and lifestyle ecommerce sites, help us develop and manage a library of content components that allow us to realize and tweak any UX vision, and help us launch new websites for new clients.

More specifically, you will:

• Design and develop websites and UI components using a template engine that can be styled and optimized for different clients, countries, events, promotions and campaigns
• Be the technical lead for content updates across our fleet of sites - banners, copy, styling, layouts and more - using our headless CMS
• Collaborate with Content Coordinator on the timely deployment of new content
• Oversee, QA and troubleshoot Content deployments from a technical perspective
• Collaborate with Client Success and Creative leads on the deployment of new features and designs that improve the usability of our websites
• Lead design and launch of new websites for new clients
• Collaborate with Product and Development on content tooling improvements, content management best practices, deployment best practices, content deployment scaling, component design, template management

We would love to hear from you if you:

• You have 3 years experience building and styling ecommerce websites using CSS, SASS, HTML, and JavaScript
• You have experience building UX components and content using a headless CMS system such as Strapi
• You have experience using a template engine or theme creator
• Experience with React.js or other SPA framework is a bonus but not required
• Experience working in a design/fashion led e-commerce environment is a bonus but not required
• You have experience building and realizing thoughtful, responsive and accessible UX
• You love clean coding and have a good understanding of coding best practices
• You have strong communication & collaboration skills
• You are highly self-motivated, resourceful and get things done in a fast-paced and fluid environment
• You are positive, highly curious and a fast-learner
• You care deeply about the customer experience and have a customer-first mentality

What we value:

• We seek the truth. We are empathetic. We listen intently. We do not pretend to know when we don't. We ask questions. We are objective. We are open-minded.
• We speak the truth. We are transparent. Opacity takes too much work. We have a point of view. We share our point of view. We say what we mean. We mean what we say.
• We optimize for outcomes. We celebrate results. We do things that make a difference. We hold ourselves and each other accountable. We are driven. We know what we need to do. We got this.
• We innovate together. We are collaborative. We accomplish more together. Our broad perspective is a superpower. We are clever and resourceful. We solve hard problems in clever ways. We are strength in numbers.
• We are brave. We are bold and ambitious. We are adventurous. We choose paths not travelled. We choose the hardest problems. We are the ones in the arena. We are the ones who knock.