Magento Backend-contractor

**we’ll need you to**:

- Analyze and solve problems
- Collaborate with a team of passionate professionals in various disciplines (System administration, creative, marketing, sales) to deliver exceptional outcomes
- 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

**You must have**:

- 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

**It’d be great if you had**:

- Experience with profiling tools such as New Relic
- Adobe Commerce Cloud experience
- 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