Magento Tech Lead

Summary

Join McFadyen Digital, a leading eCommerce Marketplace solutions advisor and implementer, as a key member of our team. We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Magento expert to architect and implement Magento solutions, mentor team members, and contribute to pre-sales activities. This role requires strong Magento, PHP, and database skills, along with experience leading technical teams. You will be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance. McFadyen Digital offers a collaborative and rewarding work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. We offer a flat management structure, a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, and a commitment to work-life balance.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the Magento System Architecture, Design, Theming, Functionality Enhancements, Configuration
• Experience leading technical teams
• Strong PHP and Magento skills with an emphasis on Object Orientated Programming
• Strong experience on MYSQL DB
• Experience working on Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain the modules of Magento EE/Cloud
• Architect and propose Magento solutions as per client requirements
• Perform a technical analysis of requirements
• Train the subordinate team of developers
• Be actively involved in the pre-sales activities by demonstrating technical capabilities through POCs
• Review business requirements working with other team members
• Produce a solid, detailed technical design
• Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision
• Work with the QA and Customer Support teams to triage and fix bugs with rapid turnaround
• Contribute ideas for making the application better and easier to use
• Create reusable components, which can be configured for different projects
• Writing unit test cases and unit testing of the code written
• Research on new integration and plug-in capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Follow a user-centered design process, UI / UX integration experience
• Should have the knowledge to customize Magento Theme
• Experience in creating modules (payment, shipping, etc.)
• Experience in creating customizable plugins for Magento
• Good understanding of Zend framework preferable
• Full Stack skills are desirable
• Good understanding of W3C compliant HTML and CSS
• Good HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JSON skills & solid programming background in PHP for implementing web technologies
• Experience in creating responsive web applications using Bootstrap
• Experience in hand-coding JavaScript (ES5/ES6) and jQuery
• Conceptual and implementation knowledge of MVC framework
• Knowledge and integration experience with server-side communication using Ajax and JSON
• Experience developing front-end applications and solving Cross-browser, Cross-platform, cross-mobile UI issues
• Understand implement SEO and Accessibility compliance to the developed applications
• Willingness to mentor and lead design and development initiatives
• Ability to guide the team in all technical perspectives
• Understanding of build tools like web pack, grunt, gulp
• Exposure to Mirakl or other marketplace platforms is a huge plus
• Experience in PWA is a plus
• Excellent English communication skills

Benefits

• A career with thought leaders who literally wrote the book on Marketplace Best Practices
• A career in the fast-paced world of retail eCommerce, digital marketplaces, and platform businesses
• A career with first-movers who are deploying new business models and strategies worldwide
• A career in a flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy and bureaucracy
• A career in a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, risk-taking and teamwork