Oh Polly

Glasgow, UK | Posted: 5 years ago

Web Developer

The Role
We are looking for a PHP/Magento developer based in our Glasgow City Centre Office (Central Station). You will join a team of 4 working on the 5th fastest growing fast-fashion eCommerce website in the UK.

Hours
Normal working hours are 9am-5.30pm Monday-Friday. Some flexibility is available (i.e. 8am-4.30pm, or 10am-6.30pm).

Responsibilities

• Developing both front and back-end of ohpolly.com on an on-going basis (Magento Community v1.9).


• Assisting with migrating ohpolly.com from Magento 1 to Magento 2.


• Assisting with launching an additional new brand website on Magento 2.


• Regularly performing Magento extension module upgrades and bug fixes.


• Conducting site performance and speed-optimisation reviews on a regular basis.


• Ensuring on-going PCI and GDPR compliance.


• Supporting business users with the various systems Oh Polly use.

Salary Bands

• Junior: £25-32k


• Mid-weight: £32k-40k


• Senior: £40k+

What’s on Offer?

• Relocation allowance for exceptional candidates.


• Excellent opportunities for career progression.


• 50% discount on all Oh Polly products.


• Corporate gym membership.


• Cycle to work scheme.


• An extra day off for your birthday!


• Perkbox ( https://www.perkbox.com/uk ) with access to exclusive employee benefits, freebies and discounts – think half price cinema tickets and free mobile phone insurance!


• Pluralsight subscription ( https://www.pluralsight.com/ ).


• Budget allocation for tech conferences.


• Company Pension.


• Office Nespresso machine (for all the coffee lovers).


• Office Playstation.


• Your choice of Macbook Pro (OS X) or DELL XPS (Linux) laptop. 2 x rotating monitors setup.


• Department Wired Magazine subscription and other goodies.


• Flexible start time up to 10AM (finish time 6.30PM).


• Bright spacious offices.


• Company social events (Bowling, Go Karting etc) + occasional Pizza Friday's on the house.

Specifics
In your cover letter you should write a few paragraphs (250 words maximum) which showcase your coding credentials and your passions for web development.

Requirements
Experience/Skills

• PHP/MySQL.


• Version control (git).


• Multi store Magento implementations.


• Magento e-commerce templates and layouts.


• Building custom Magento extensions and extending existing extensions.


• Server management and working with Linux.


• Semantically marked-up HTML.


• CSS, including experience with pre-processors (Sass).


• Writing clean and maintainable Javascript, jQuery, AJAX and XML.


• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign for web production (e.g. cropping, masks, selection, layer comps, creating SVGs).


• Experience in developing responsive and mobile sites.


• Eye for detail and alignment as well as a solid understanding of UX/UI design.


• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.

Bonus Points

• Varnish, Elasticsearch, Nginx, MariaDB.


• Amazon Web Services, NewRelic, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.


• Pair programming.


• JIRA / Confluence.


• Agile (Scrum / Kanban).


• JavaScript frameworks (e.g. AngularJS, Backbone.js).


• Build systems for front-end web development (e.g. Gulp, Grunt).


• Unit testing and Functional testing tools (e.g. PHPUnit, CodeceptionJS, Codeception, Browserstack).


• Dependency management with Composer for PHP.


• Competent in web services integrations (REST, SOAP).


• Magento certification.

Education
You should be educated to degree level in a relevant subject area or have equivalent experience.

Are you up for the challenge?
Apply now via the application form.

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