What does eCommerce programming involve? [closed]

Question

I'm trying to land my first programming-related job, and I found a website for a company which is accepting resumes for an eCommerce development position.

This is the requirements they listed:

To be proficient in:

• HTML (hand-coded)
• CSS
• PHP
• Javascript
• MySQL

Preferred skills:

• PEARL
• Linux

The fact that they (unless they're actually using the PEARL programming language) misspelled perl and have a fairly bland portfolio aside, I can do all of this--I mean, I need to touch up on my Javascript and learn a bit more MySQL--but I can do all this, and I'm sure I can pick up perl in no time. But I was wondering--what exactly does an eCommerce developer do? Is this like, building shopping carts? User login systems? Or does it just mean doing everything except design on corporate websites?

Answer 1

eCommerce has one big word that goes with it Security.

Do you feel confident writing secure code? Bearing in mind that your code will be handling the users credit card information.

Now, there is alot that goes into building an eCommerce solution from the ground up

• Product Listings
  • Adding/Removing Items
  • Sort by size/shape/price/color/...
  • Search
    • Filtering results
• Shopping cart (harder then it sounds)
  • Database or Session?
  • Adding/Removing Items
  • Checkout
  • Integration with payment API
• Reporting
• Inventory
• Security
  • XSS
  • SQL Injections