Staff Software Engineer (Magento 2)

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to take on a leading role within our Magento 2 development team. You’ll be a key figure in shaping the architecture, ensuring high performance across multiple websites, and guiding a skilled team of engineers. If you have deep Magento experience, a passion for clean code, and thrive in a fast-paced e-commerce environment, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the Magento 2 engineering team across multiple web stores and application instances in a high-volume e-commerce environment.
• Set and maintain technical standards, conduct architectural reviews, and ensure best practices across the codebase.
• Drive performance improvements across frontend and backend with a focus on scalability, speed, and resilience.
• Support the delivery of business-critical features while maintaining high-quality code and system stability.
• Collaborate with other technical leads, Product Owner, QA, and DevOps to plan and deliver roadmap initiatives.
• Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines and testing practices to support continuous delivery.
• Provide line management, coaching, and technical mentorship to a team of Magento developers.
• Own and drive resolution of platform-level issues (performance, technical debt, refactoring, upgrades, etc.).
• Optionally facilitate Scrum ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and contribute to improving delivery processes.
• Engage in regular code reviews, architecture sessions, and technical decision-making.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and performance evaluations of developers under your leadership.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive hands-on experience with Magento 2 Open Source, including deep architectural and custom module development knowledge.
• Strong Hyvä theme experience and in-depth understanding of performance optimisation in headless and non-headless contexts.
• Proven track record of resolving performance issues using profilers such as Blackfire, New Relic.
• Solid experience in leading engineering teams – setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, mentoring, and line management.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Unit testing and CI/CD pipelines as part of the daily workflow.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and strong expertise in RabbitMQ.
• Experience using Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js within Magento projects.
• Knowledge of Magento 2 best practices, including use of service contracts, dependency injection, and declarative schema.
• A strong engineering mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and an interest in scalable architecture and clean code.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Magento 2 certification (nice to have).
• Experience with Adobe Commerce (nice to have).
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master (nice to have).
  
  

What You'll Get

• Health & Wellbeing – Workouts, Run Club, Nature Trail, Wellness Allowances, Gym Memberships, On-Site Gym (Coming Soon!), Golf Memberships & Mental Health Support
• 29 Days Annual Leave (Including Bank Holidays) - Increases with Length of Service
• Flexible Working Hours
• Social Events – Busy Schedule of Parties, Sports Tournaments, Charity Events & Lots More!
• Table Tennis, Pool Tables & Sports Equipment in the Office
• Additional Benefits Available - Vitality Private Health Insurance, Help to Buy Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounted Travel Schemes & Lots More!
• Product Discount on Net World Sports & Affiliate Partner Products
• Subsidised On-Site Bistro - Serving Freshly Prepared Food Every Day for Breakfast & Lunch
• Employee Recognition - Bonus & Commission Schemes and Performance, Length of Service & Life Event Rewards
• Employee Support - Saving Schemes, Legal & Financial Advice, Parental Guidance
  
  

Our Values

• Go above and beyond: Get stuck in and show your passion!
• Ideas over hierarchy: If you have an idea, speak up! It doesn’t matter what role you’re in, we want everyone to shout about ways the business can develop and improve.
• Be bold, move fast: We value speed; we make fast decisions, trust our guts and get things done as efficiently as possible.
• Keep it simple: Don’t over-complicate it!
• Results driven: We embrace results that drive positive change, even if it means occasional failure. Mistakes are valuable as long as we learn from them and avoid repeating them.
• Growth: We’re a fast-growing business and we want our staff to grow with us.
  
  

Contact

Gareth Davies (Recruitment Specialist) / [email protected] / 07979 815630 / linkedin.com/in/garethdanieldavies