J o e l K r a u s e

Bio

Hey, I'm Joel — Principal Engineer at DotCollective where I lead our retail engineering team in building third-party retail integrations for Shopify Plus & Shopify POS.

I have over 12 years of experience in the industry, and have worked with merchants such as Decjuba, Peter Sheppard, kikki-k, Calibre Menswear, Driza-Bone, Hairhouse, Tony Bianco, Purebaby, Viktoria & Woods, RB Sellars, Just Cuts, Clark Rubber, AGL, Southern Phone, The Balcony Garden + many more!

Experience

DotCollective

  • Principal Engineer

    October 2023 — Current

    As Principal Engineer at DotCollective, I lead our retail engineering team in building third-party retail integrations for Shopify Plus & Shopify POS. My primary responsibilities include:

    • Managing our day-to-day operations including code reviews, scheduling, feature scoping and prioritisation

    • Pre-sales Shopify POS Demo sessions

    • Developing engineering processes including PR/Git workflows, engineer success sessions, training sessions and more

    • Planning, scoping and documenting projects

    • Working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver successful projects

    • Developing E2E testing documentation and conducting testing

  • Senior Front End Engineer

    February 2022 — October 2023

    As a Senior Front End Engineer at DotDev, I was responsible for delivering innovative and engaging e-commerce experiences for our clients using React, Gatsby and Shopify Plus.

Raak

  • Lead Developer

    October 2020 — February 2022

    I worked alongside our Head of Technology to plan, scope and implement full headless eCommerce website builds using Vue/Nuxt, BigCommerce and Storyblok.

    As well as leading development of projects, I assisted and provided technical direction to our team of developers, conducted code reviews, managed project time lines and delegated tasks to achieve deadlines.

    I lead the development of the Southern Phone eCommerce website, as well as leading multiple development projects for AGL.

  • Web Developer

    October 2019 — October 2020

    I worked alongside our in-house design team to build custom websites using WordPress, Gatsby, Vue/Nuxt and Angular.

Chriate

  • Web Developer

    May 2018 — October 2019

    While at Chriate I built custom WordPress websites for agencies such as Tomorrow, Seesaw and Rare.