Come and join GENE

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JOIN THE GENE TEAM

We are always looking for talented and ambitious people at all levels to join our team. You will deliver large-scale, international, ecommerce projects and software, supporting our wide range of clients including PayPal.

To fit in, it's important that you share our enthusiastic, proactive approach. We live by 5 principles; we want to be challenged, we want our work to have purpose, we want to achieve great results, work with people we like and enjoy what we do.

What we can do for you

As well as very competitive salary levels, we have an employee share scheme so everyone has ownership in the business and operate an annual performance related bonus so everyone shares in the rewards too. We also:

- Have great offices in the centre of Brighton, Liverpool and London
- Regularly go for team lunches/drinks after work/industry conferences
- Everybody has an annual personal, professional training budget
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Company Pension
- Private Healthcare with Vitality
- Perkbox subscription that provides free mobile phone insurance & discounts on retailers, cinema tickets and restaurants

So if you have the ability, attitude and ambition and want to work with GENE send us your CV to us at [email protected] and show us what you can do!

OUR CURRENT VACANCIES

Technical Support Engineer – Brighton or Liverpool

We are looking for a customer focused, technical and service-minded individual to join our Ecommerce Support team. The primary responsibility of this role is to provide second-line, technical assistance, bug resolution and code improvements for our customers’ Magento websites.

The Technical Support Engineer will address incidents, bugs and small change requests within our service level agreements, requiring the ability to quickly triage, multitask, prioritise and problem solve. In addition, the role will carry out small development projects for one of our main clients, PayPal, supporting and enhancing the official Braintree extension for Magento and work cross-functionally with other departments in providing our customers with a world class support experience.

The role in more detail

Effectively handle, manage and resolve technical issues that are escalated from our front-line support specialists via phone, email and our support portal
Problem solve and quickly identify severity and root cause for technical issues
Escalate issues to our development team as required with thorough details and documentation
Take ownership and drive technical issues through to resolution
Be awesome at technical problem solving
Help manage the maintenance and optimisation of websites and codebases
Ability to adapt and change in a fast paced environment
Ability to effectively communicate technical details to all audiences
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong organisational and time management skills

What experience we’re looking for

Intermediate to advanced experience with programming/scripting languages. PHP, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, HTML/CSS, XML
A broad understanding of web technologies; Apache, NGINX, Redis, Memcached
Experience with MySQL, optimisation, logging, debugging and SQL
Experience with hosting including, CDNs, DNS and IaaS solutions
Understanding of security practices, SSL certificates, encryption and OWASP
Ability to use Git and experience with deploying code
Experience with debugging and profiling tools such as NewRelic, DataDog, Blackfire
Knowledge of Magento ecommerce a huge benefit but not a prerequisite
Basic level of software QA

PHP Developers (Magento 2) – Liverpool

We are looking for an experienced, talented and ambitious back-end developer to join our existing in-house development team and help deliver large-scale, international, ecommerce projects. But we are not looking for just any back-end developer, we are looking for someone different, someone innovative, creative, someone with natural coding ability, a passion for web technologies and inspirational ideas and someone who wants to make a difference.

We develop on the Magento Commerce platform for some big brands. We don’t muck around, we are serious about ecommerce and we need someone used to working with the Magento 2 Platform. If you love providing elegant and innovative solutions to business challenges, you are bursting with ideas of how new tech can change the world, you have commercial acumen and the ability to get things done then read on…

commercial experience coding in PHP with SOLID MVC and OO patterns
experienced with using Magento 2
knowledge of software engineering and software design patterns
experience of working with and optimising MySQL and/or Percona DB databases, creating efficient and complex SQL
solid knowledge of PSR standards
worked in and are comfortable in an Agile development environment
familiar with GIT and Github
experience using PHP to consume web services (REST, SOAP, XML RPC) and building custom integrations with 3rd party services
have used composer, PHPUnit, XDebug, GIT, GitHub, Redis
maintained staging LEMP environments and are familiar with continuous testing & delivery approaches
experience of the full development life-cycle from planning to coding to delivery

The successful candidate will need to back their CV up with an impressive portfolio of URLs. To fit in, it’s important that you share our enthusiastic, proactive approach to developing relationships and understanding our clients’ commercial needs. We would like you to demonstrate:

you have excellent commercial experience building enterprise grade websites
always looking to develop new skills and embrace new technologies
ability to take ownership of technical projects
an eye for detail and quality
good verbal and written communication skills

So why would you want to work for our agency? Well, we are a group of creative, ambitious, talented, hard working people, single minded in our commitment to delivering the very best in product and service for our customers. GSOH is a must along with being a team player with a can-do attitude, someone with excellent attention to detail, who is well organised, a clear thinker, a problem solver and an excellent communicator.

Whilst we predominantly work with our clients on their ecommerce businesses we also develop our own Magento software so development teams work on project cycles to split time between client work and internal projects. We are the team behind the Braintree software for Magento, the only Apple Pay connection for Magento and BlueFootCMS which was acquired by Magento

DevOps Engineer – Brighton or Liverpool