Lead Magento Developer

Location : Atlanta, GA

Duration: 6+ months

ProKarma is currently seeking a Magento lead developer to join our team in Atlanta, GA to support one of our financial client. In this position, you will be expected to support our Magento code base and develop innovative solutions for e-commerce website following industry “best practices.  

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement innovative and secure features and functionality for e-commerce.
• Apply knowledge in Magento and PHP to extend, enhance and build great user experiences.
• Troubleshoot, research and analyze issues to solve problems.
• Provide daily technical support for the e-commerce, including troubleshooting and debugging issues.
• Work with cross functional teams to support customer requests.
• Write and modify scripts for systems monitoring, event detection and data integration.
• Assist in server deployment, upgrades and version release management.
• Provide timely and excellent customer service to the stakeholders.
• Performs daily and periodic system support tasks to ensure continuous systems operation.
• Be aware of and follow company IT and security policies.
• Collaborates with various teams and vendors on solutions.
• Works with project managers and business analysts on documenting processes related to current and new functionality across systems.
• Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Performs other related duties and assignments as required.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years PHP web development experience.
• 3+ year’s real-world e-commerce experience with Magento.
• 2+ years’ experience with Linux servers.
• Magento Enterprise 1.x and 2.x experience a must.
• Experience with object-oriented programming & MVC applications.
• Experience relational databases and MySQL.
• Expert understanding of Magento's code structure, extension architecture, theming hierarchy and components.
• Expertise in authoring and extending Magento extensions. Working experience in customizing Magento's front-end components using layout XML, blocks, and templates
• Thorough knowledge of Magento feature set and configuration.
• Competent knowledge of e-commerce data organization and relationships.
• Competent in authoring JavaScript and using libraries such as jQuery.
• Competent in API integration.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Analytical and critical thinking, detail oriented and problem solving.
• Magento Certification is a plus