Magento Backend Contractor

Description

• Analyze and solve problems 
• Collaborate with a team of passionate professionals in various disciplines (System administration, creative, marketing, sales) to deliver exceptional outcomes 
• Apply your expertise in Magento and JavaScript to extend, enhance and build great ecommerce experiences 
• Gather and understand client requirements 
• Communicate with clients directly to discuss technical issues / implementation details 
• Test and take accountability for the quality of your work 
• Estimate effort required to implement changes and enhancements 
• Troubleshoot and resolve production bugs and outages, including root cause analysis 
• Prepare and run deployments including to production  

• Enjoy challenging work and are looking to grow 
• Want to work on a diversity of projects and platforms 
• Are excited to work on high traffic, high profile websites with complex requirements 
• Are looking for a company that places value on training and skills development 
• Are psyched to leverage different, unfamiliar technologies, and services 

• 5+ years experience with PHP 
• 4+ years experience developing on the Magento platform 
• Experience with the LAMP stack 
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) 
• Computer Science degree or equivalent 

• Experience optimizing and refactoring application code 
• Experience with profiling tools such as New Relic 
• Adobe Commerce Cloud experience 
• Optimized web server configurations and have experience scaling web applications 
• Virtualization expertise with Docker 
• Experience with load testing suites like Gatling or Siege 
• Frontend development skills (HTML and CSS) 
• Experience with React 
• Experience with headless Magento implementations 
• Familiarity with tag managers (e.g. Google Tag Manager) 
• Experience with frontend performance optimization / site speed audits