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 a great office in the centre of Brighton
- 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 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 a talented and highly ambitious PHP developers at all levels to join our existing in-house development team to deliver the very best products and solutions for our customers.
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 MVC and OO patterns
- some Magento experience (this is a huge positive but not required)
- 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
- worked in and are comfortable in an Agile development environment
- familiar with GIT and Github
- 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
Ideally, we are looking for someone with Magento experience and knowledge of the SDLC within the ecommerce industry. However, if you are the right person with bags of talent, personality and experience in large web projects and commercial experience coding in PHP with MVC (Zend) and OO patterns then we would love to hear from you too.
One more thing, 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 (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.
We are looking for a highly ambitious individual with inspiring technical expertise that can lead and motivate their team of developers to deliver the very best products and solutions for our customers.
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…
The role in a bit more detail…
As our Technical Lead you will play a key role in all projects, from discovery phases through implementation and deployment. You will head up our development teams and work alongside our project and support teams to deliver large-scale, international, ecommerce projects and software, covering our wide range of clients including PayPal. You will…
- help identify new strategic technical goals as a key member of the senior management team
- play a leading role in providing technical solutions to client requirements and strategies
- provide technical leadership to motivate, coach, mentor and inspire our team of talented developers
- provide technical input and guidance in Scrum and Sprint planning
- create high level technical design documentation
- Have a hands-on coding role and contribute to architecting, development and troubleshooting
- perform code reviews, set and ensure the highest technical standards and best practice
- get Involved in RFPs, agency presentations and pitches to represent our technical credentials
Ideally, we are looking for someone with extensive Magento experience and knowledge of the SDLC within the ecommerce industry. However, if you are the right person with bags of talent, personality and experience in large web projects and commercial experience coding in PHP with MVC (Zend) and OO patterns then we would love to hear from you too.
One more thing, 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 (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.
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.
This is as much a design-led position as a web front-end development role so we are looking for someone fluent in front-end technologies and able to push responsive layouts and user-experience design to the max. GENE is part of the revolution pushing for headless implementation and PWA within ecommerce.
We’d love to hear from you if you have…
- outstanding HTML and CSS including CSS preprocessors (SASS / LESS)
- experience with modern reactive JavaScript libraries (React, Vue, JQuery) but mainly React
- familiar with GIT and Github.
- excellent knowledge of UX principles
- responsive techniques
- desire to explore the latest PWA and headless technologies
- good understanding of debugging techniques, browser rendering and performance
The successful candidate will need to back this up with an impressive portfolio of URLs. We are an ecommerce specialist agency predominantly working with Magento Commerce systems, experience of integrating with Magento would be advantageous but not a deal breaker as we’re going headless!
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 (acquired by Magento) and the first Apple Pay, Alexa and VR integrations with Magento 2.
As a product 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 product manager 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 ecommerce experience, the ability to understand and interpret client briefs, provide commercially viable solutions with a touch of flare and plan and execute project plans over multiple parallel work streams.
Our platform of choice is Magento. The successful candidate will need to be process oriented 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.
You role will involve the following:
- Defining project requirements and putting forward effective solutions and ideas
- Assisting in the preparation of specifications and writing user stories
- Working closely with the client stakeholders and managing relationships
- Developing project plans and managing them through to successful delivery and launch. (Scrum and/or Agile methodologies advantageous)
- Working with developers, account teams, creatives to deliver exceptional results for our clients
- Passing projects through quality assurance and user acceptance testing
- Helping develop a clear product strategy and building solid long term visions for our clients
- Defining and executing a road map of new features and functionality aligned with the vision
- Solving and unblocking complex problems with a creative mindset
One more thing, 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 (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.
UX is one of the defining factors that underpins the success of ecommerce websites, it is therefore at the very heart of what we do and plays a critical role for all our projects.
We are looking for an experienced, talented and ambitious UX/UI designer to collaborate with developers and project teams to produce exciting ecommerce websites and applications.
We are looking for someone who is immersed in the subject of UX and is an exceptional designer, who keeps up to date with emerging technologies and practices and is confident presenting their work and ideas to all levels of business.
We love ideas and we love to innovate, you will be instrumental in helping deliver best-in-breed ecommerce and user experience design, and contribute to our creative ideas to help our clients achieve commercial success online.
The role will cover UX/UI design, strategy and planning, analysis, research & validation (MVT). We want someone enthusiastic, curious and full of ideas and obsessed by what online users and customers really need, and how to create the right experience to get the best results.
This is a small team environment demanding a dynamic and flexible team player, strong interpersonal skills and a business mind.
We’re looking for talented and enthusiastic Digital Designers with ecommerce experience to join our creative team in Brighton and help us shape the future of ecommerce.
We’re looking for ambitious designers with strong digital design backgrounds and a great understanding of UI, UX design, typography, content hierarchy and usability.
Creativity drives everything we do, we love ideas and we love to innovate. We are looking for exceptional designers to deliver best-in-breed ecommerce and user experience design, and drive creative and innovative ideas to help our clients achieve commercial success online.
Your portfolio will need to demonstrate stunning website design, ecommerce knowledge, latest responsive design principles and evidence that you can turn client briefs into engaging and inspiring websites and applications with great user experiences.
Agency experience is a must. You will be interpreting and driving client briefs, assisting the agency in pitches and putting forward creative ideas. 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.
So why would you want to work for our agency? Well, we are a group of creative, ambitious, talented, hard working guys and girls, 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.
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.