Web Programmer - BigCommerce Focused

Type: Full-time, Remote
Schedule: 40 hrs per week, core overlap at least 2 to 4 hours with US Central Time
Compensation: USD $1,200 to $1,600 per month depending on experience


About Fluker Farms

We are a family company with more than 70 years serving reptile keepers, zoos, educators, and specialty retailers. Our catalog spans live feeder insects, dried diets, supplements, lighting, habitats, and care accessories. We are a fast-growing e-commerce company expanding our reach on Amazon and other marketplaces. We deliver quality products and use data to drive sourcing, pricing, and inventory decisions. We need a sharp, detail-oriented Amazon Seller Central Specialist who can own results and help scale marketplace operations.

The Role at Fluker Farms

You will own Amazon operations for a reptile and exotic pet portfolio where seasonality, temperature sensitivity, and compliance matter. You will launch new products, manage ads, keep inventory healthy, and improve content and conversion. Your scorecard is profitable growth, in-stock rate, listing health, and speed to launch, with a sharp eye on customer experience and animal welfare.

What You Will Do

**Special Projects** - Very Important

-Develop web apps or other program based projects that improve internal operations.

Platform and Theme

- Maintain and extend our BigCommerce Stencil theme using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Handlebars, YAML, and Stencil CLI
- Build reusable components for PDP, PLP, navigation, search, and cart
- Improve Core Web Vitals. Optimize LCP, CLS, INP. Image compression and lazy load. Reduce JS bloat

SEO and Content

- Own technical SEO. Clean URL structure, canonical tags, robots rules, XML sitemaps, hreflang if needed, structured data with JSON-LD
- Fix crawl errors and redirect maps. Stop soft 404s and duplicate content
- Partner with marketing on category and PDP copy, A/B tests, and on-page hygiene
- Manage blog and landing pages using Page Builder without breaking speed

Catalog and Inventory

- Keep the catalog clean. Option sets, modifiers, variants, custom fields, filters, and faceted search
- Ensure inventory accuracy and sync with 3PL or ERP through vetted apps or custom scripts
- Build import and export jobs. Validate data before it goes live

Integrations and Data

- Connect apps the right way. Payments, tax, shipping, search, reviews, merchandising, back-in-stock
- Use the BigCommerce REST and GraphQL Storefront APIs for custom needs
- Own GA4, Google Search Console, and feed health for Google Merchant Center
- Create simple dashboards for KPIs in Looker Studio or Sheets

Quality, Security, and Compliance

- Version control with Git and pull requests
- Follow accessibility guidelines WCAG 2.1 AA
- Monitor uptime and errors. Use logging and alerts. Work with CDN and DNS to keep the site fast and stable

Must Have

- 3+ years building on BigCommerce with Stencil and Storefront APIs
- Strong vanilla JavaScript plus modern tooling. You can read and refactor other people’s code
- Hands-on technical SEO wins you can show. Core Web Vitals improvements and indexation fixes
- Comfortable with data. CSV imports, regex, lookups, and basic SQL or equivalent
- Experience wiring BigCommerce to third party apps and handling edge cases
- Solid written English. You will write commit messages, docs, and short briefs

Nice to Have

- Headless experience using Next.js or similar with BigCommerce APIs
- Experience with reviews platforms, advanced search, and merchandising tools
- Basic design chops in Figma or similar for quick mocks
- Experience in pet, CPG, or multi-SKU catalogs