Vundie for Shogun

May 29th, 2020

Shogun has frontloaded the development tedium for merchants on Shopify: by writing a whole lot of code, they have made it possible for merchants to write no code yet still have the flexibility to create landing pages and design their acquisition funnels as though they had an in-house engineering team.

This might seem like the only advantage Shogun presents, but the second part of this is excellent: Shogun is made up of a team of people who understand how marketing for the web works, so it's not just a tool for creating pages, but for creating the right combination of pages linked with the right page optimizations having incorporated best practices from A/B testing. Ultimately, no one cares about a web page, really - in the same way no one cares about a hammer: they only care about having a hole in a wall.

Shogun's hole in the wall is an increase in merchant revenue and a considerable dip in the time it takes to ship product pages.

I'd ordinarily not mention what I was doing before I became a software engineer, but it feels relevant to this role. I have five years' experience running the growth and marketing department of startups in Sub-Saharan Africa, eventually seeking a more interesting challenge by going one step higher to build products.

I am a full stack web developer, flexible with technology, and proficient with HTML and CSS (and quite pixel-perfect, biased in favor of semantic tags and constantly updating myself on accessibility) React, Vanilla JavaScript, NodeJS (Express), My SQL and MongoDB.

I use Antd where relevant, but any UI component library is something I can pick up easily. I also use Figma quite well!

I am smart, enthusiastic and constantly eager to do a great job!

You'll get a lot more than you bargained for with this guy (that's me)!

Written by Justin Irabor

I really hope this convinced you, because it's the truth!