Chalhoub Group Hiring for SFCC – Front End Developer at Dubai Full Time

Job Summary

• Work on flagship websites for globally recognised brands, whilst meeting the demanding challenges on usability, resilience, performance, scalability and security.
• Build cross-browser, cross-device compatible pages adhering to industry best practices
• Develop templates and content slots using ISML, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX and integrate with Pipelines/Controllers on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) platform
• Responsible for architecting and defining the Front-end framework to solve complex designs and interactions that reflect the user experience and creative proposition
• Mentoring and guiding all project activities on multiple small to medium sized projects or one large project
• Shift between a creative and a technical focus depending on the project need and/or the type of project
• Participate in developing supporting proposal materials for projects
• Participate in scoping and planning work
• Write technical documentation (admin guides), white papers, presentations, contributes to determining internal processes
• Be a thought leader in the Front-end technologies and space
• Assist in recruiting of new Front-end employees

What you’ll need to succeed

• A first experience working in an SFCC / Demandware Platform as a Frontend developer.
• Sound knowledge and experience on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) SiteGenesis/SFRA framework, Services framework and other platform capabilities.
• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with front-end application architecture and development
• Experience with coding modular object-oriented JavaScript
• Knowledge and understanding about JavaScript design patterns (Factory Pattern, Strategy
• Pattern, Module Pattern, Reveal Pattern, Facade Pattern, Asynchronous Module Definition etc.)
• Well versed with jQuery framework and patterns used. Should be able to write custom plugins for jQuery
• Knowledge about JavaScript MV* frameworks
• Hands-on experience with AngularJS framework and its constructs like custom directives, services etc.
• Hands-on experience with CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS, STYLUS)
• Understanding and hand-on experience with writing modular CSS using SMACSS and Object Oriented CSS methodologies
• Understanding of front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, Semantic-UI and Foundation
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Experience and understanding with writing JavaScript unit tests (Jasmine + Karma)
• Experienced with front-end tooling able to write custom automation tasks for Grunt
• Experienced with architecture and development of front-end tailored for various Content Management Systems in the likes of Sharepoint, Umbraco, Episerver, Sitefinity and Sitecore
• Should maintain and extend front-end development Guidelines and boilerplate that is currently being used as a starting point for projects executed by both internal and offshore front-end development teams
• Should be able to incorporate and understand HTML5 semantic elements and understand the SEO benefits of Microdata and Google Rich snippets for inpage SEO
• University Degree in Information Systems/ Computer Science
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

What we can offer you

We will help shape your journey with us through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility.

Our Group offers the opportunity to support careers that may span different teams, different job roles, different categories and even different countries. We offer diverse career paths for those who show drive and passion as well as the desire to learn and grow.

Amazing benefits

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, life insurance, child education contribution, remote and flexible working as well as exclusive employee discounts.