About this role
This is a remote position.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of developers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and support.
- Collaborate with project managers, stakeholders, and other teams to define project requirements, objectives, and deliverables.
- Ensure adherence to project timelines, milestones, and quality standards.
- Provide technical expertise and make critical decisions on architecture, technology stack, and implementation approaches.
- Conduct code reviews, provide feedback, and ensure code quality, adherence to best practices, and coding standards.
- Collaborate with the design and QA teams to ensure seamless coordination and alignment across all aspects of the project.
- Monitor and track project progress, identifying and addressing any issues or risks.
- Stay updated with the latest trends, advancements, and emerging technologies in Magento 2 development.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative development environment, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Integrate and customize third-party systems (ERPs, CRMs, payment gateways etc.) and APIs to ensure seamless data exchange and functionality.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement improvements (caching strategies, DB tuning).
- Lead from the front during critical production issues—quickly assess the situation, perform hands-on diagnostics, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes or mitigation strategies while ensuring clear communication with stakeholders
- Security:
- Ensure secure development practices (RBAC, CSRF/XSS prevention, secure API access).
- Configure Cloudflare for firewall rules, DDoS protection, rate limiting, bot mitigation, and spam prevention.
- Performance
- Own and maintain a good performance score for the website, prioritizing Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores.
- Optimize Redis for caching, configure Varnish for full-page caching, manage RabbitMQ for asynchronous messaging, and ensure efficient search functionality.
- Take accountability for the success and stability of project deliverables in production.
Requirements
Technical Skills:
- Total Experience:
- Minimum of 7-10 years of overall web development experience.
- Relevant Experience:
- 7 years of experience working as a technical lead, preferably in Magento 2 projects.
- Experience in managing and leading development teams.
- Experience in overseeing the end-to-end development process for Magento 2 projects.
- Magento Tech Stack: Proficiency in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and MySQL.
- eCommerce Platform: Deep knowledge of Magento 2 (Open Source and/or Adobe Commerce).
- Magento Backend Core Skills :
- Magento 2 custom module development.
- Magento 2 architecture and database structure.
- Magento 2 APIs: REST, GraphQL, asynchronous & bulk APIs.
- Understanding of Magento 2’s indexing, cron jobs, and caching architecture.
- UI Components, KnockoutJS (basic understanding for backend rendering).
- Multi-store, B2B, and MSI configurations.
- Services:
- Caches - Varnish Cache, Redis, Fastly (Imp. for Adobe Commerce)
- Queue Processing - RabbitMQ
- ElasticSearch / OpenSearch, Adobe Live Search or standard Elastic-powered search.
- Bonus:
- Hyva Theme, Hyva Checkout etc.
- Adobe Commerce modules: B2B, MSI (Multi-Source Inventory), Page Builder.
- Docker-based local dev tools like Warden, DDEV, or Docker Compose setups.
- Exposure to headless Magento setups (PWA Studio, custom APIs, frontend decoupling).
- Experience with Shopify, BigCommerce, or migrations to/from Magento (nice to have).
- Optional Skills : PHPUnit, Cloudflare, New Relic
- Certification : Magento 2 Professional Developer Certification (optional).