Description:
The Magento/PHP Developer role is responsible for building e-commerce applications, maintaining existing PHP code, optimizing MySQL queries, developing custom PHP solutions, and actively assisting in improving the usability, usefulness and functionality of highly customized consumer and business-to-business Magento Community and Enterprise Systems.
Responsibilities:
- Build e-commerce applications
- Maintain existing PHP code and develop custom PHP solutions
- Optimize MySQL queries
- Customize Magento’s front-end components using layout XML, blocks, and templates
- Author and extend Magento extensions
- Knowledge of bug and feature tracking systems such as Jira
- Actively assist in improving the usability, usefulness and functionality of customized systems
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5+ years PHP web development experience and a minimum of 2 years real-world e-commerce experience with Magento development
- Expert understanding of Magento’s code structure, extension architecture, theming hierarchy, and fallback components
- Comfort working with Linux-based systems
- Firm grasp of Git-based source control
- Competent with PHP object-oriented programming and MVC applications
- Competent with MySQL-based database concepts
- Competent in web services integrations (REST/SOAP)
- Solutions-oriented thinking, well organized and able to work independently within a distributed team