Technical Lead

Corra is the global digital agency that fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands trust to create luxury commerce experiences. Over the past 15 years, we have built a reputation for award-winning design, disciplined execution, and innovative thinking.

With technical expertise concentrated on the Magento and Shopify Plus platforms amongst others, we produce memorable journeys that captivate customers and elevate brands to new heights.

Winner of multiple Crain’s Best Places to Work Awards, we offer exciting and challenging projects with industry leading companies, competitive health benefits, flexible work arrangements, ongoing career development, company outings and tons of other bonuses.

Corra is looking for a Technical Lead to join our team. The Technical Lead will work with our project and support teams to provide our clients with high quality development services. They will work with the team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the projects. In addition, they will maintain and enhance existing ecommerce websites while adhering to best practices. Preferably an experienced ecommerce professional, the Technical Lead will have a passion for researching and learning the latest digital technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Work with the Corra team on new ecommerce projects, from initial business development and discovery phases through implementation and deployment of the completed project

  • Maintain and enhance existing ecommerce websites while adhering to best practices

  • Play a significant role in the requirements gathering, working with Solution Strategists and Delivery Managers by providing technical suggestions.

  • Partake in Scrum and Sprint planning calls and provide technical input (approach, estimate)

  • Create high level technical design documentation

  • Perform code review before deployment and provide technical review/ feedback to engineers

  • Review Magento Patch and Security upgrades and provide a technical impact analysis document

  • Have a detailed technical understanding on work happening in assigned projects

  • Have technical ownership of groups of projects

REQUIREMENTS

  • Magento experience required

  • Significant PHP experience, including experience building object-oriented websites in PHP

  • Familiarity with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, and previous experience developing web applications using this pattern or on existing MVC frameworks

  • Solid experience interacting with MySQL database systems through abstraction layer (in addition to the ability to write raw SQL queries)

  • Experience using PHP to create and consume web services (SOAP, XML-RPC) and/or other experience implementing data integrations within the Magento platform

  • Front-end development experience with strong Javascript skills (including frameworks/libraries such as jQuery) as well as familiarity with accepted CSS and HTML design standards

  • Knowledge of PWA and React

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Knowledge of Magento development best practices, including extending existing functionality, creating custom modules, and working with its API

  • Working experience with the ecommerce development process, and the ability to create solutions for common questions/concerns on this type of platform

  • Experience with Zend Framework

  • Understanding of common web analytics suites (Google Analytics, Omniture) and experience implementing these systems

  • Comfortable researching and adopting new web technologies.

  • Familiar with SEO / SEM best practices

EMPLOYMENT POLICY

  • Corra provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
    This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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