Come and join GENE
Never get that Sunday Night Feeling againJOIN 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
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
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
We are looking for an experienced, talented and ambitious Senior Front-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 Front-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. You should be fluent in HTML, CSS, the latest JavaScript technologies, with capability in React / Vue JS to help develop our Headless and PWA approach. Able to push responsive layouts to the max and advise clients on the latest best practices in user-experience design. 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
- a robust skill set of accessible HTML5 and CSS3
- excellent responsive design and development experience
- sass, less and gulp
- robust JavaScript skill-set
- an understanding of and working alongside PHP
- working knowledge of Photoshop for asset extraction
- always looking to develop new skills and embrace new technologies
- you have worked in and are comfortable in an Agile development environment
- you know how to use GIT version control
- experience in the full development life-cycle from planning to coding to delivery
- ability to take ownership of technical projects
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.
We are looking for a customer focused, technical and service minded individual to join our ecommerce team. The primary responsibility of this role is to support our developers in ensuring that we create best in class solutions for our customers’ Magento websites. we are not looking for just any QA and tester, we are looking for someone different, someone innovative, creative, someone with natural attention to detail, 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. You will be part of our fast paced Agile development team, supporting the build and launch of eCommerce websites utilising the latest Magento technologies. Your main responsibilities will be to design, develop and implement manual and automated tests for ecommerce sites and software solutions that scale across our client’s websites. In addition you will need to learn and leverage the current methodologies and address incidents, bugs and small change requests, requiring the ability to quickly triage, multitask, prioritise and problem solve.
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:
- Manual testing experience and demonstrable knowledge of analysis, creation and execution of test cases within an Agile project
- A proven track record in the testing of web-based applications, client server systems and Microsoft SQL environments
- Significant experience of testing user interfaces, business logic and batch processes
- Experienced in providing support to developers for test case debugging, execution tracing and coverage analysis
- Experience and knowledge of Magento software and ecommerce
- Experience with issue tracking management and resolution
- Enthusiastic and motivated team player
- A basic understanding of software automation with a view to developing this further
- later in your career
- An ISEB/ISTQB foundation certificate in Software Testing would be an advantage
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.
Our clients partner with us because they need a specialist ecommerce agency that can out-think and out-manoeuvre their competitors. An agency that can offer credible hands-on-consultancy backed up with the technical and creative expertise to get things done. They trust us to take a proactive leadership role in managing their online commerce, whilst also being personally involved in the decisions that shape the success of their business.
About the role:
As a project manager we believe you are the person that ensures everything comes together, a problem solver and negotiator, a decision maker and organiser; you demonstrate resourcefulness, initiative, calm and attention to detail, above all you are driven by a desire to deliver a great result.
As our project manager you will be working on multiple large scale and complex ecommerce projects in conjunction with developers, creatives, account teams and of course our clients. We are looking for someone that has agency experience, the ability to understand and interpret client briefs, provide commercially viable solutions and plan and execute project plans over multiple parallel work streams.
Our platform of choice is Magento and in particular the Enterprise Edition. We are looking for an experienced project manager and ideally but not essential someone with expert technical knowledge of the Magento platform. The successful candidate will need to be process orientated with exceptional project management credentials and able to demonstrate experience of the full development lifecycle in digital delivery. This will be a client-facing role managing project budgets in excess of £100K.
To fit in, it’s important that you share our enthusiastic, proactive approach to developing relationships and understanding our clients’ commercial needs.
You role will involve the following:
- Help define project requirements and put forward effective solutions and ideas
- Assist in preparing specifications and user stories
- Develop project plans and manage them through to successful delivery and launch. Scrum and/or Agile methodologies advantageous
- Work with developers, account teams, creatives to deliver exception results for our clients
- Pass projects through quality assurance and user acceptance testing
This is a small team environment demanding a dynamic and flexible team player, strong interpersonal skills and a commercial mind with the ability to influence, engage and negotiate at all levels.