PHP/Magento 2 Backend DeveloperJob descriptionPHP/Magento 2 Backend Developer based in Oh Polly main office in Glasgow City Centre / Remote.

• The role is currently fully remote.
• The role when business returns to normal will be remote-first focused. Approximately three days from home and two days or less from the Glasgow City Centre office.
• Fully remote full-time role is open for exceptional candidates (GMT +3 / -3).

Hours

• Normal working hours are 9am - 5.30pm Monday - Friday.
• Flexibility is available (i.e. 8am - 4.30pm, or 10am - 6.30pm).

Key Responsibilities

• Write, test, and deploy code using established standards and procedures.
• Participate in development team sprint events.
• Understand and adhere to specifications.
• Troubleshoot and maintain existing software according to company standards and procedures.
• Mentor and support other developers.
• Review deliverables and provide performance feedback, recommend process and technical improvements.
• Design and deliver informal training to business users and other developers.
• Convert requirements into technical and functional solutions.
• Analyse application logs and metrics for potential issues under pressure and resolve.

Salary Bands

• Junior: £25-32k.
• Mid-weight: £32k-43k.
• Senior: £43k-£60k.

What's on Offer?

• Relocation package for exceptional candidates.
• Excellent opportunities for career progression.
• Pluralsight subscription (https://www.pluralsight.com/).
• Budget allocation for tech conferences.
• Perkbox (https://www.perkbox.com/uk) with access to exclusive employee benefits, freebies and discounts – half price cinema tickets, holiday discounts and a lot more perks.
• Onsite Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation sessions.
• Corporate gym membership.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• An extra day off for your birthday!
• Excellent opportunities for career progression.
• 50% discount on all Oh Polly products.
• Company Pension.
• Office Nespresso machine (for all the coffee lovers).
• Your choice of Macbook Pro (MacOS) or DELL XPS (Linux) laptop. 2 or 3 x rotating monitors setup.
• Department Wired Magazine subscription and other goodies.
• Flexible start time up to 10AM (finish time 6.30PM).
• Bright spacious offices.
• Company social events (Bowling, Go Karting etc) + occasional Pizza Friday's on the house.

Interview Process:

• Screening – phone call.
• Interview (technical) – in person / video call.
• Practical / coding task.
• Interview (HR/Management) – in person / video call.

Experience/Skills

• PHP experience is essential for this role.
• Experience in developing Magento 2.
• Experience in Object-Oriented PHP development.
• Experience developing custom Magento extensions and extending existing extensions.
• Experience with Zend MVC Framework.
• Demonstrable DevOps experience, dealing with Linux and virtualized environments.
• Version control (git).
• Good knowledge of dependency management with Composer for PHP.
• Adhere to coding standards.
• Experienced in integrating Magento 2 to 3rd party applications/legacy systems (fulfilment, PIM, payment etc).
• Experience with LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) stack.
• Strong relational database skills (MySQL).

Although this is a back end focused role at times you may have to be involved in front end development:

• Magento e-commerce templates and layouts.
• Semantically marked-up HTML.
• CSS, including experience with pre-processors (e.g. SASS, LESS).
• Writing clean and maintainable Javascript, jQuery, AJAX and XML.
• JavaScript frameworks (e.g. RequireJS, KnockoutJS, jQuery).
• Build systems for front-end web development (e.g. Gulp, Grunt).
• Photoshop, Illustrator for web production (e.g. cropping, masks, selection, layer comps, creating SVGs).
• Experience in developing responsive and mobile sites.
• Eye for detail and alignment as well as a solid understanding of UX/UI design.

Bonus Points

• Amazon Web Services experience.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Troubleshooting with APM tools (e.g. New Relic).
• System log analysis.
• Message queuing (e.g. RabbitMQ, AWS SQS).
• Varnish.
• Pair programming.
• JIRA / Confluence.
• Agile (Scrum / Kanban).
• Developing CI / CD workflows (e.g. Jenkins, Github actions, Bitbucket pipelines).
• Unit testing and Functional testing tools (e.g. PHPUnit, CodeceptionJS, Codeception, Browserstack, MFTF).
• Competent in web services integrations (REST, SOAP, GraphQL).
• Magento certification(s).
• Other industry certification(s).

Personal Skills

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to help others in the development team.
• Willing to communicate with non-developers (i.e. company stakeholders and external partners) in a positive, responsive manner.
• Commercially minded. You understand the balance between commercial targets and technical targets. e.g. You understand the need for continuous improvement in functionality and features rather than a complete focus on bug fixing and technical improvements. You are also acutely aware of the importance of a major bug that needs to be fixed immediately over a new feature if you deem the bug is commercially impacting business performance.

Interested? You can apply for this job via the application form.Agency calls are not appreciated.

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