Senior Magento Developer

Join the Team! Full Stack Developer | 3-4 yrs experience | Remote

Do you want first-hand experience in building a startup with a small and growing team? Do you think data and tech can be a game changer?

Welcome to Co.labx: Co.labx is a tech-enabled, leadership consulting firm. At Co.labx, we are challenging the status quo & helping organisations become a force for good. We are a gender-neutral company, work remotely, partner on challenging projects with our clients, and strive to create a balance between people, planet, & profit. We now wish to enhance the role that technology plays in our work. And we have identified some exciting problem statements to push our boundaries in the next 1 year.

About the Role: At Co.labx, we’re proud to build products that accelerate the growth of organisations. To this end, we are looking to onboard a full-stack developer with previous experience working with early-stage startups. We’re looking for a candidate with 3-4 years of experience building, testing, and deploying web or mobile based applications. This individual would possess a strong product mindset, be user-centric, and be willing to experiment and build tools that enable teams to thrive.

Competencies

3-4 years of experience in the software development sector (service / product)

Experience with backend development using Ruby on Rails, Python Django, Java Spring or any other server side framework

Experience with Javascript, CSS and HTML and some frontend frameworks like React.js, Angular.js or equivalent

Experience working with relational databases (eg. MySQL or PostgreSQL)

Familiarity with RES APIs and developing endpoints in a RESTful manner

Experience writing industry-grade, well-tested code for a web-based product or service

Ability to work with uncertainty and rapidly adapting to changes

Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to see a product to completion

Excellent communication skills

Expectations

Help plan and develop new software products for the organisation

Write clean, maintainable and scalable code that is production ready and well-tested

Gather requirements and understand need of new products from various teams

Use basic analytics tools and techniques to understand user behaviour and suggest changes to existing products (or enable other team members to do so)

Our pay scale for this role is between 12-15 lacs

Still here? Great, these are the next steps & an overview of the selection process:

Reach out: We love talking about our work, so drop us an email if you want to know more. And if this opportunity excites you, apply with your resume.

Showcase your work: We will share 2 short pre-works with you. We love original, well thought out work. Insider Tip - Work speaks louder than words!

Interview & Selection

If interested, reach out right away and we’re excited to get to know you!

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the modules of Magento 2.X EE websites;
• 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;
• Create test plans and perform thorough quality analysis on the code before go live;
• Research on new integration and plug-in capabilities.

Your primary role will be to drive and grow our in-house software expertise. Working with a small software team in India and the UK, you will be responsible in understanding the requirements from various internal teams and taking ownership of software development, including backend database development and any front-end applications that will be developed in the future. Implementing AGILE methodologies, you will be responsible for delivering iterative results through regular sprints.

The software team manages a range of systems for the company, ranging from our client-facing applications to content delivery portals. You will be involved in all the projects and will contribute to developing, maintaining, and improving our systems. You will also be expected to keep on top of the latest developments in the software world and constantly check if we can make use of the latest technologies to deliver an even better user experience to both our internal and external clients. This role will suit someone who has extremely good technical skills but who is also ambitious to play a more strategic role in a growing company and build a strong team. The role may also require occasional travel to our UK headquarters and other offices around the world.

Essentials:

• Solid development skills and track-record of successful project delivery
• PHP and frameworks
• Database design and development
• SQL
• Open-source SQL databases, e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
• HTML
• CSS, Sass and frameworks
• JavaScript: ES5, ES6, Ajax, libraries, and frameworks like VueJs, ReactJs.
• Front-end tooling
• Accessibility and progressive enhancement
• Git and/or other version control systems
• Project management
• Excellent communication, leadership, and motivation skills
• Willing to take on new technical projects.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Agile development experience or certification
• .Net Framework
• Data visualisation and tools
• js
• NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Big data and analytics
• Web security and development practices
• Data scraping and parsing.
• Aptitude for statistical analysis

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

We are looking for a lean MERN Stack developer who is specialized in developing JavaScript-based technologies i.e. MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS. If you have that energy and passion to create impacts, we have the perfect job for you!  Job has flexible or temporary work from home options.

Job Responsibilities-

• Requirement gathering, UML & Database modelling and documentation
• Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
• Defining code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint
• Address and improve any technical issues
• Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient systems.
  
  

Requirements-

• BSc degree in Computer Science or similar relevant field
• Previous working experience as a MERN Stack Developer for 3+ years
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns
• In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience of implementing applications using Angular or React
• Experience for creating front end applications using HTML5, CSS3 Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Knowledge of Functional Testing regarding Unit Testing, Integration Testing & End-to-End Testing is required
• Strong knowledge of Testing tools is required with subject to Jest and Enzyme, React Testing Library, Puppeteer (or PhantomJS, Nightmare or Headless Chrome) and Selenium WebDriver
• Rest API development, documentation and testing using tools like Postman
  
  

Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage-

• Requirements gathering, modeling, documentation and project management using Visual-paradigm.com
• Javascript based workflow engines and Flow-Based Programming
• Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications,
• Experience with cloud technologies
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, JavaScript, JQuery,
• Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git).
• Converting UI and website designs (.psd, .xd, etc) into react components using Storybook.js and creating test cases with scripts; including documentation and automated visual testing
• React with WordPress Headless CMS using frameworks like Frontity.org
• org for authorization and access control models
• io microfrontend’s architecture framework for highly modular fully flexible applications
• Speech Recognition , voice interface , and other AI functionility
• React native mobile, Electron desktop application conversion
• Heroku Pipelines, Heroku: Browser and UAT, Heroku CI, DevOps tools and processes.

Job Summary
3-4 years of PHP, MySQL development experience
Minimum 1 year of Drupal 8 development experience
Experience in developing custom module and themes in Drupal 8
Good to have experience in panel-based theme development
Basic knowledge of Git
Basic knowledge of HTML5, JS and CSS
Basic knowledge of Linux system to deploy code on the test server