Role: Senior Magento PHP Developer
Duration: 12+ months/ Contract
Location: Mundelein, IL or Chicago, IL (Role will start off remote and candidate could be based in either Mundelein or Chicago (once we are able to return to the office))
Visa – Any Visa (No H1B)
End Client/ Industry – Will let you know
Interview Mode: Skype
Job Description:
Our client has an opening for an experienced Magento PHP developer on our B2C Ecommerce team. This position will be responsible for designing and implementing solutions for our B2C web commerce initiatives on the Magento platform.
Responsibilities:
- Develop extensions to our web commerce environment to support a variety of business and commerce needs.
- Responsibility for detailed design, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting our client's B2C Magento 2 platform. Serves as an IS point person for addressing issues and enhancements related to the specific product, functional and technical area.
- Leads story breakdown activities for the development squad.
- Collaborates with the Product Owner and Business Analyst in backlog grooming activities.
- Active contribution in architecture of technical solutions for new ecommerce business requirements. This includes participating in the build versus buy decision making.
- Troubleshoot and resolve software defects
- Adhere to established coding standards and participate in code reviews
- Produce detailed unit test results
- Adhere to IS Department policies best practices.
- Work successfully within an iterative SDLC environment
- Ability to facilitate design meetings with users, management and architects.
- Analyzes production issues as necessary to determine the cause of the issue and determine the necessary course of action for resolution.
- Follows and helps to establish development standards.
Required skills & experiences:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
- 5+ years of experience as a software developer in an ecommerce environment utilizing Magento 2.x as an e-commerce platform. This includes hands-on experience developing and modifying PHP for Magento
- Experience coding to Magento technical best practices and guidelines
- Experience in working within an Agile/SCRUM development model
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal team members as well as business stakeholders.
Desired skills & experiences:
- DevSecOps experience – this includes unit testing, CI/CD (Jenkins is preferred), security testing, performance load testing and managing a backlog and triaging defects in JIRA (or a similar tool)
- Experience in working with multi-site global teams.
- Experience working with Application Performance Monitoring & Management tools such as New Relic, App Dynamics, etc.