Last update:
January 21, 2025
Skills Required for VC Developers¶
Virto Commerce Developers design, build, test, and maintain E-commerce solutions, such as Virto Commerce Frontend Applications and Virto Commerce Platform modules, partnering with solution architects, administrators, and clients to implement and integrate these solutions as part of the client e-commerce ecosystem.
The following skills are important for working with Virto Commerce:
Common skills¶
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing solutions with Visual Studio 2022 (Visual Studio Code)
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- E2E testing
- Debugging
- Rest API Principles and Swagger schema
- GitFlow
- Design Patterns (as used by Virto Commerce Platform)
- SOLID principles (as used by Virto Commerce Platform)
eCommerce common skills¶
- E-Commerce principles, UX/UI and best practices
- Catalog browsing process
- Checkout flow
- SEO principles (Shema.org, JSON-LD)
Virto Commerce developers skills¶
Virto Commerce developer skills include:
- Backend developer skills
- Frontend developer skills, or
- Fullstack developer skills, i.e. a senior backend developer who can also build and maintain frontend applications
Backend developer skills¶
Microsoft .NET 8¶
Database¶
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PostgreSql
- MySql
Note
At least one database provider is required. Microsoft SQL Server is preferred.
Search engines¶
- Lucene
- Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud)
- Azure Search
- Open Search
- Elastic App Search
- Algolia
Note
At least one search provider is required. Elastic App Search is preferred. Lucene is used for local development only.
Azure developer¶
- Azure App Service
- Azure Logic Apps (Primary integration middleware)
- Redis Cache
- Azure Blob
- Azure Application Insights / Azure Monitor
Virto Commerce developer¶
- Virto Commerce Architecture Principles, Data Flow and Lifecycle
- Virto Commerce Style Guides
- Create custom modules
- Create extension modules
- Background processing (Hangfire)
- Role-based security
- Settings
- In-Memory and Distributor Caches
- Full-Text Search
- Tax, Shipment, Payment Providers
- Virto Commerce Admin UI (Angular JS)
- SignalR Notifications
- Virto Commerce Events model
- Liquid templates for email notifications
- Sonar Qube for Clean Code
Frontend developer skills¶
Mobile web specialist¶
- Web Fundamentals
- Website layout and styling
- Front-end networking
- Accessibility
- Progressive Web Apps
- Performance optimization and caching
- Unit Testing (Jest, Karma)
- E2E Testing
- Debugging
- ES2015 concepts and syntax
- Mobile web forms
Languages & frameworks¶
- Vue3
- Typescript
- TailwindCSS
- Husky + ESLint + Prettier
- Vite
- GraphQL
Progressive web applications¶
- What's Progressive Web Apps
- ServiceWorkers/webmanifest, ng-workers
- Web-Push
- Offline mode
eCommerce tools¶
- Google Analytics, Yandex Metrics, Hotjar
- Azure Application Insights / Azure Monitor
- Lighthouse