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. You will be responsible for writing and maintaining Magento modules, performing technical analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role requires strong PHP and Magento skills, experience leading technical teams, and a deep understanding of Magento architecture. If you are passionate about technology, problem-solving, and mentoring, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply. McFadyen Digital offers a rewarding career with thought leaders in a collaborative and innovative culture.

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

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