Position: Senior Magento Backend Developer
Company: Alcor
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Space 48, a UK-leading CX and e-commerce platform agency, is looking for Senior Magento Backend Developer. It's a full-time remote position.

What you will be doing:
The following should give you an idea of how you’ll be expected to spend your time typically. It’s not set in stone and it may change from week to week, but it gives an idea of what is expected from the role:

- Software Delivery (90%)
You’ll be spending the majority of your time working on delivering projects for our customers with your team. You’ll be building Magento, integrations and working with the design and CX team to bring our customers' requirements to life!
You’ll work with the Practice Lead to progress our platform-specific goals and build out tools and products to make sure we’re constantly improving on how we work. Depending on your experience, a portion of this time is expected to be spent assisting other team members in delivering their work effectively.

- Personal Development (10%)
Keeping up with new software releases, development practices, horror stories, and post-mortems is an essential part of any Software Developer’s time! Use this time to push forward your objectives and research tools and techniques you need to stay productive.

Essential Technical Skills:
- PHP
- Magento 2
- Client-side JavaScript
- CSS
- Experience integrating with relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL)
- Working with third-party REST and GraphQL APIs
- Experience in the full software lifecycle
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Advanced experience working with Git
- Advanced knowledge of the HTTP and H2 protocols
- Advanced knowledge of web application security

Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- At least 2 years of development experience working in a development team within a commercial environment
- Experience dealing directly with non-technical stakeholders
- Highly motivated with demonstrable technical and analytical skills
- Desire to further technical skills and knowledge
- Attention to detail, commitment, and desire to complete a consistently high standard of work
- Advanced time management skills with the ability to manage own tasks to agreed timelines with limited supervision
- Able to clearly communicate complex design and development decisions
- Advanced knowledge of best practices and architecture for complex web applications
- Advanced knowledge of and ability to avoid common security issues in web applications
- Able to articulate complex technical solutions with minimal assistance
- Able to design and build complex technical solutions with minimal assistance
- Strong communication skills

Desirable Technical Skills:
- Experience working with Docker
- Experience with Hyvä/Alpine js or tailwind
- Experience unit testing with Javascript
- Experience with Systems Administration and DevOps
- Server-side JavaScript
- Experience with FaaS platforms
- Experience with one or more E-commerce platforms (Magento 1.x, - --Shopware, Shopify, BigCommerce, CommerceTools, etc)
- Experience with one or more popular Node frameworks (e.g. Nest, Koa, Express, Hapi)
- Experience integrating with NoSQL data stores (e.g. Cosmo, Mongo, Firestore, Dynamo)
- Typescript
- Experience with one or more PaaS cloud providers
- React
- Experience with APIs that implement HATEOAS+HAL
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
- Experience with PCI compliance
- Experience working with servers over SSH

Desirable Knowledge & Experience:
- A Magento 2 Certification
- At least 1 year of software development experience on an e-commerce platform
- Experience in people management in a fast-paced development environment
- Managing tasks and timelines of a development team, within a commercial environment

Benefits:
- We're fully remote and will support you in working from wherever you like
- Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle
- Free monthly coworking passes with Hubble Pass
- 24 days holiday + bank holidays + an extra day's holiday for each year - worked
- Your birthday off
- Vitality private health cover (Currently UK only. After one year)
- Pension scheme (UK only)
- Perkbox (Access to a wide range of discounts and special offers)
- Generous Workiversary bonuses at 5 years and 10 years
- £1000 referral bonus - recommend a friend for a job!
- Eyecare vouchers (Currently UK only)
- Company wellness initiatives
- Access to mental health support and an Employee Assistance --Programme
- Training and development plans for everyone
- Collaborative, supportive culture led by strong values
- Regular social events and networking opportunities
- Relaxed and friendly team