Senior Magento Developer

Up to £45,000 DOE

BACKGROUND.

Absolute are a Magento Business Solution Partner who have been established for 29 years. We're a digital creative agency specialising in web design and development, with an impressive and varied client base. We are looking for an experienced and talented Magento Developer to join our growing team.

We’re particularly process-driven and have an internal dev roadmap aimed at improving efficiency and developer quality-of-life. Our project managers handle most of the client communication but as a senior developer, we’ll sometimes need you to hold technical discussions with clients or partners.

Our culture is informal but professional. We encourage consultative thinking - look behind the client’s face-value request to understand what they’re looking to do with their business.

THE ROLE.

You’ll work on a wide range of interesting ecommerce projects, as part of an expert team of Magento Certified developers and Solution Specialists.

This will see you impart your own Magento knowledge but allow you to learn new technologies and methodologies including
working towards a certification in Magento 2.

You'll be an experienced PHP developer with an in-depth knowledge of Magento and a number of deployments under your belt. We will also provide you with Magento training and certification where necessary.

BENEFITS INCLUDE

Competitive salary + company pension scheme
Remote Working
Training & support
Flexible start and finish times + early finish on a Friday
Work with latest technology
Free fruit, snacks & drinks
Magento certification
Bike to work scheme
+1 day holiday for every year of service (up to 30) + sickness allowance

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Excellent commercial experience with Magento 2 Open Source
Excellent PHP and MySQL
Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS/LESS and JS
Experience of Git for version control
Experience working in process-driven environment
Strong communication skills
An appetite for personal learning and development and an interest in the state and shape of the industry
A good understanding of Linux-based hosting environments
A good understanding of internet architecture.
Familiar with packaging systems e.g. Composer

DESIRABLE SKILLS

Magento certification
Experience with Magento Commerce
Experience with other PHP frameworks – we use Laravel
Experience of CSS preprocessors (SASS / LESS)
Experience of caching solutions e.g. Varnish, Redis
Commercial experience of systems integration via SOAP, REST, file transfer etc.
Familiar with debugging and profiling tools e.g. Xdebug
Experience with deployment workflows (we use Github actions)

KEY RESPONSIBILIITES

Working in a professional creative environment, this role involves:

Mentoring and collaborating with members of the team
Helping us in shaping our solutions and process
Interpreting and helping to write requirement briefs, specifications, wireframes and designs
Build bespoke modules or advise on off-the-shelf solutions to meet tech requirements
Provide estimates for scope of work
Advise account handlers and clients on solutions and practices
Problem-solving issues on existing sites.