Magento Architect

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features
• Integrate PSD designs to Magento Theme
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize Magento 2 stores for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

 Desired Candidate Profile:

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Magento 2 Frontend Developer
• Experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building and Deployment.
• Strong knowledge of web standards
• Expert Level understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Good understanding of Javascript and JQuery
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Understanding of Basic SEO principles and ensuring that the application will adhere to them
• Fair understanding of JavaScript programming and DOM manipulation
• Familiarity with differences in other HTML5 based views, such as ones in email clients
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Should be able to handle project independently

• 5-7 years of web application and web site development with Drupal (corporate web sites, ecommerce sites, portals, mobile sites).
• 4+ years managing web application projects.
• Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, Testing) and exposure to Agile or iterative SDLCs.
• Experience with one or more modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) React preferred
• Experience writing semantic, responsive HTML.
• Experience writing object-oriented PHP.
• Experience implementing web solutions in Drupal and PHP.
• Experience with Drupal’s theme layer.
• Experience with Drupal’s module system and experience writing or extending modules.
• Experience with Drupal’s Migrate framework.
• Experience with Drupal JavaScript behaviors.
• Experience with Acquia provided tooling and development workflows for Drupal 8/9 preferred.
• Experience implementing, accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG).
• Experience with CSS preprocessors (Sass, Less).
• Experience with version control tools (Git).

• As a Magento Developer, you will be designing high-quality eCommerce solutions to meet digital commerce and marketing needs in the implementation, enhancement, and support of features.
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions including building components, modules, and plugins that integrate with external client services.
• Embrace a “shift-left” approach to software quality, leveraging unit, integration, and end-to-end test automation to make sure quality objectives are fulfilled.
• Participate in supporting other team members and projects the team owns via code reviews, pair programming, and technical discussions using Agile methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience with Magento and PHP.
• Experienced in Magento code structure, extension architecture, theming hierarchy, and dependency management.
• Strong integration and architectural knowledge of the Magento platform
• Proficient with Magento APIs (REST, GraphQL) and 5+ years experience with HTTP and REST API usage.
• Expertise in using and maintaining Magento extensions.
• Able to write acceptance criteria, automation, and execute regression testing.
• Experience utilizing GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.

Nice to have:

• Experience integrating Magento with AEM.
• Experience with Front End Development using JavaScript and related frameworks & libraries such as Angular.
• Experience in using and integrating the broader Adobe Experience Cloud stack (i.e. Assets, Analytics, Launch, Target, etc)
• Experience with cloud technologies (specifically Amazon Web Services)
• Experience with Build/deploys tools and pipelines such as Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.

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• Building and supporting backend and frontend development of websites and application projects
• Producing appropriate and effective technical solutions
• Working with a wider, distributed technology and project management teams to meet deadlines and maintain a high standard of code quality
• Understanding, defining, and communicating functional and non-functional requirements
• Working with our technical directors and project managers to define, scope, and estimate projects and features
• Working with QA teams to address bugs and ensure our work output is of the best quality

• Excellent written and verbal English communication
• Full exposure to both backend and frontend development on Drupal platforms
• A strong and demonstrable background working with Drupal, especially 8/9
• Experience building custom integrations, services, and modules within Drupal as well as integrating with APIs
• Strong in Data Structure and Algorithm
• Experience with Drupal templating using HTML5, CSS (SCSS is a bonus), and JavaScript and also the Twig templating engine
• Competent with MySQL and optimising query and table performance within a Drupal platform
• Working with cloud platforms like AWS
• BE/B.Tech/MCA with 4+ years of experience in Drupal implementation
• Strong experience in CI/CD processes (Jenkins, pipelines etc.)
• Should have a good understanding of OOPs concept and Design Patterns like
• Good Understanding of workflows