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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:

- We are a remote-first company but 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

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

ECOMMERCE SOLUTION SPECIALIST

As an ecommerce Solution Specialist, you will be part of our Client Services team working within our Strategy & Consulting group responsible for the commercial development, relationships and success of a portfolio of clients. 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. You will be working on multiple large scale and complex ecommerce projects in conjunction with developers, creatives, project managers and of course our clients. We are looking for someone that has wide ranging ecommerce experience, the ability to understand, interpret and sometimes write client briefs, provide commercially viable solutions and ideas with a touch of flair and provide subject matter expertise and strategy to our clients.

GENE, voted ‘Best Ecommerce Agency’ at the 2019 Ecommerce Expo Awards for Excellence is not your average agency. We have evolved from being a boutique ecommerce agency in Brighton, UK to one of the leading certified Magento Enterprise Partners with an international reputation. Innovation and ideas are at the heart of our business and this sets us apart. Our GENE Pool initiative encourages development of R&D projects alongside our day-to-day work and has led to ground breaking products such as BlueFootCMS PageBuilder (acquired by Magento) and the first Apple Pay, Alexa and VR integrations with Magento 2. So, if you’re looking to be part of a company that embodies creativity and innovation, works on the cutting edge of emerging technologies, and truly values people and culture, then GENE is the place for you.

Key responsibilities for ecommerce Solution Specialists are:

Owning the relationships of a portfolio of clients
Helping develop a clear online strategy and building long term visions for clients
Defining and executing a programme of new features and functionality aligned with the vision for your clients
Defining project requirements and putting forward effective solutions and ideas
Assisting in the preparation of specifications and statement of works
Estimating projects, writing proposal and presenting strategies
Working with developers, project managers, creatives to deliver exceptional results for our clients
Managing customer issue escalations to successful outcome
Managing client expectations, and ensuring that customer service is at the forefront of everything we do
Solving and unblocking complex problems with a creative mindset
Actively ensuring financial targets are reached, reporting performance and monitoring profitability of projects

To fit in, it’s important that you share our enthusiastic, proactive, can do 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. Key skills for this role are:

Highly experienced in ecommerce (merchant side or agency side)
An understanding of digital marketing
Ideally experience with Magento
Ability to understand technical language and methodologies
Excellent written and spoken communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical solutions
Have a positive attitude, energy and a passion for working with clients and partners
Comfortable speaking and presenting to all organisational levels

Salary: £50,000 pa

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!

MAGENTO BACKEND DEVELOPER

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