Magento Tech Lead (Remote, USA)

Company Description

McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions.  During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we’ve built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV).  We’re honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives.  Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for 37 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company.  We’re proud of our Great Place to Work certification.    

Learn more about us at our website: www.mcfadyen.com    

Job Description

Do you have a passion for technology and solving problems? Are you an innovative person? Do you have the mindset to mentor team members on the Magento platform and new technologies/solutions? Are you self-directed, confident, and able to work without requiring a great deal of structure or supervision? Are you highly self-motivated and have a head full of ideas? If you answered yes to these questions, we want to talk to you!!   

McFadyen Digital is looking for a new A-player to join our team. We would love to share with you the amazing journey that is work for a great e-commerce company as McFadyen is. If you would like to work with the overseas team, Magento is your specialty and big challenges do not scare you, let us talk about this amazing opportunity.  

 

Responsibilities   

Top 5 responsibilities   

1. Writing and maintaining the modules of Magento EE/Cloud. 
2. Architect and propose Magento solutions as per client requirements.  
3. Perform a technical analysis of requirements.  
4. Train the subordinate team of developers.  
5. Be actively involved in the pre-sales activities by demonstrating technical capabilities through POCs.   

Additional Responsibilities   

• 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.  

Qualifications

Top 5 Qualifications   

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

Additional Responsibilities   

• 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.  

 

What We Can Offer You:   

• 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. 

Additional Information

Building a great company culture is a top priority for McFadyen Digital.  We try to provide the best environment possible for team members - one that treats people the way they want to be treated. Culture Index is one of our tools for enhancing our enjoyable and productive people-focused environment.  In order to be considered for this position, please follow this link to fill out a short Culture Index survey https://go.apply.ci/s/UGSEoxjTNs. Please use as many descriptors as possible that pertain to you. There are no right or wrong answers.    

   

Our Core Values: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptable, Caring   

Keywords: Tech Lead Magento, Magento 2, Magento Developer, Magento Web Developer, M2 Certified, M2 Certified Professional Developer, M2 Certified Professional Developer Plus, M2 Certified Associate Developer, M2 JavaScript Developer, M2 Magento Cloud Developer, remote work  

 

McFadyen’s goal is to ensure that our clients are able to maximize the return on their technology investment by providing better service to their clients, partners and internal teams. At McFadyen we truly believe our employees are our most valuable asset. Across our locations in the US, Brazil and India, we offer a world class work culture that enables top notch delivery for some of the world’s most influential companies.    

McFadyen Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable.