[NDK] Web Developer

Due to the continued growth, Nidecker Group is looking for a web developer to join its Digital department. Nidecker Group is located in Rolle Switzerland on the Swiss-French Riviera, close to the Alps and Lake Geneva.

The Group manages some of the best snowboarding brands in the world, such as Nidecker, Jones, Yes, Now and Flow and works with 60+ distributors in 40+ countries.

As Web Developer, you will be responsible for developping creative, innovative and fully responsive websites for several of the Nidecker Group’s brands, such as Nidecker and Jones.

From a prototype made on Figma by the design team, you will define the best way to develop a best-in-class responsive website in close collaboration with our in-house team : the brand manager, the graphic designers and the web developer.

You are comfortable working in a Prestashop and / or PHP MVC Framework and architecting maintainable, testable, clean solutions using industry best practices and modern design patterns.

We can offer an interesting challenge for those who have an awareness of current trends in web development, are able to handle multiple projects at once and work at a fast pace.

Tasks

Engaged in developing, debugging, and issue resolution in test-driven development environment

to deliver high-quality code

• Comfortable working with LAMP / LEMP stack setups
• Ability to write high-performance, scalable, reusable code
• Adhere to and support the Agile Software Development Methodology
• Provide for both backend / frontend functionality and site performance for the UI experience
• Work closely with the Product Management for setting tasks estimations, scoping decisions and manage multiple work requests
• Partner with the Web Design team to create and maintain the digital style guidelines
• Strong collaboration skills within IT team and also able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Good written and spoken English
• Promote an innovative mindset concerning new technologies, languages, and techniques to problem solve large-scale technical opportunities
• Strong attention to detail and quality of deliverables

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge on PHP
• Experience with Ecom platforms (e.g. Prestashop, Magento 1 / 2, BigCommerce, or similar)
• 5+ years of responsive web development, focused on authoring HTML, CSS preprocessing tools like LESS and SASS and JavaScript in a scalable Ecom environment.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g. jQuery or jQuery UI)
• Experience debugging (e.g. Xdebug) and benchmarking (e.g. Ab)
• Experience with modern toolkit like Bootstrap
• Experience implementing 3rd party SOAP and / or REST APIs
• Experience with Apache and MySQL, MariaDB or Postgres SQL
• Experience with working in a distributed version control environment, Git / GitFlow
• Comfortable working with workflow and communication tools like JIRA, GitLab / GitHub
• Capable of collaborative iteration in a fast paced environment with short product life cycles

Bonus Points :

• Experience with Symfony, Laravel or Drupal
• Experience with package managers, build tools, and task managers (e.g. npm / yarn, webpack or gulp)
• Understanding of the impacts of semantic markup and its effects on SEO
• Experience with performance testing, load testing, security testing, and automated testing
• Experience with template engine like Smarty or Twig
• Experience in A / B testing set-up and strategies
• Experience with UI Tests and / or Unit tests
• Knowledge of Doctrine ORM
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (especially MongoDB)
• Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. OPcache, Memcached, Redis, etc)
• Server management experience with Linux and Nginx;
• Develop and maintain CI / CD Pipeline

The Nidecker Group is home to the most innovative and inspirational action sports brands : Nidecker, Yes., Jones, Now, Flow.

We create, operate, and accelerate industry-leading brands internationally with one goal : to inspire and enable athletes to lead the progression of their sport.

Founded in 1887 in the Swiss Alps and one hundred percent family owned, every generation has been fuelled by a passion for innovation and action sports.

We began our story as master craftsmen, making wooden wheels and tables before moving on to sleds and cross-country skis.

In 1912 we started manufacturing alpine skis, then water skis, monoskis and finally snowboards in 1984. Today, we are the oldest action sports company in the world and have built highly successful brands, which have played an integral role in the evolution of every industry in which we’ve been involved for over five generations.