Responsibilities would primarily consist of developing new projects built using the Magento platform, writing custom extensions, identifying quality community extensions, and architecting new Magento bids.
Basic Requirements:
- Minimum of 3-5 years PHP web development experience
- Minimum of 3 years real-world e-commerce experience with Magento development in the last 2 years
- Firm grasp of Git-based source control
- Competent with PHP object-oriented programming & MVC applications
- Competent with MySQL-based database concepts
- Familiarity with automated deployment strategies
- Solutions-oriented thinking; always looking for the smart solution to a problem rather than jumping at the first answer
- A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong time management and problem solving capabilities.
Proven Skills & Technical Requirements:
- Expert understanding of Magento's code structure, extension architecture, theming hierarchy, and fallback components
- Expertise in authoring and extending Magento extensions
- Thorough experience in customizing Magento's front-end components using layout XML, blocks, and templates
- Thorough knowledge of vanilla Magento feature set and configuration
- Competent knowledge of e-commerce data organization and relationships
- Store catalog (categories/products/attributes)
- Sales orders (quotes/orders/invoices/shipments/credits)
- Competent in authoring JavaScript and using libraries such as jQuery
- Competent in web services integrations (REST/SOAP)
- A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code
- Ingenuity to leverage all available tools at your disposal
- Comfort working with Linux-based systems
Bonus Qualifications:
- Magento Certification is a huge plus
- In-depth knowledge of PCI/PA-DSS compliance issues
- Experience in ERP integrations with Magento is a huge plus
- Experience with caching and scaling techniques
- Experience in multi-store, multi-lingual, or multi-currency e-commerce implementations
- Experience with CSS preprocessors like SASS/LESS
- Experience with Twitter BootStrap framework
- Contributions to the open-source community