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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

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Come and join one of the most progressive, exciting and ambitious ecommerce agencies in the UK as our Marketing Communications Director.

We help ambitious companies sell more online. 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, involved in the decisions that shape the success of their business.

As our marketing communications director you will be responsible for creating and delivering the agency’s marketing strategy and helping to drive our growing business. Our clients partner with us because they need a specialist that can out-think and out-manoeuvre their competitors – we need you to do that for us.

We are looking for someone talented, creative and ambitious, someone who can lead, inspire, and excite. You will be responsible for managing and promoting our brand nationally and internationally, the role covers the following:

Content marketing, agency branding, marketing collateral and lead generation
Working with creative teams to deliver regular outreach material such as case studies, white papers and thought leadership
Leading and working on joint marketing initiatives with key partners such as Adobe and PayPal
Promoting PR and establishing PR relationships
Support and promoting our outreach events such as http://ecomrocks.com/
Building strategic relationships and partnering with key industry players, agencies and vendors for joint marketing initiatives
Developing strategies and tactics to boost the company’s reputation and drive qualified traffic
Deploying successful marketing campaigns from ideation to execution
Experimenting with various organic and paid acquisition channels
Develop strategies and tactics to get the word out about our company and drive qualified traffic to our front door
Produce valuable and engaging content for our website and blog that attracts and converts our target groups
Prepare and monitor the marketing budget on a quarterly and annual basis and allocate funds wisely
Oversee, produce and approve all marketing material including our sales material
Measure and report on the performance of marketing campaigns, gain insight and assess against goals, analyze consumer behavior and adjust email and advertising campaigns accordingly
Represent the organisation at events and press conferences
Reach out to influencers, media and beyond in order to arrange story placement on a national and global level
Create internal communications protocols and initiatives that will foster employee moral working alongside our Head of People and Culture to make GENE an employer of choice

This is a small team of 50 people, demanding a dynamic and flexible team player, strong interpersonal skills and a business mind. We need someone excited by technology, commerce, digitally literate, with a creative flair and an eloquent writer. A strong negotiator, relentless self starter with obsessive attention to detail.

To fit in, it’s vital you live and breathe our values: We strive for better; We find a way; We bring the energy; We thrive together; We deliver results. Key skills for this role are:

Demonstrable experience in marketing within technology and ideally ecommerce
Proven experience in identifying target audiences and in creatively devising and leading across channels marketing campaigns that engage, educate and motivate
Exceptional integrated multi-channel marketing campaign experience.
Deep understanding of digital marketing channels and techniques yet also experienced in non-digital channels
Experienced in creating and delivering “CRM” customer engagement and conversion campaigns that are data driven and continually optimised
Experience of brand management, from creative, tone of voice and positioning
Comfortable speaking and presenting to all organisational levels
Experience of devising, executing and delivering content strategies

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London, Bristol & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

HEAD OF ECOMMERCE OPERATIONS

We are looking for someone who can lead, inspire, and understand what it takes to provide exceptional client service; someone who can look after our client’s day-to-day operational and support needs ensuring and safeguarding exceptional ecommerce performance, monitoring and optimisation.

This newly formed role is to lead our critical ecommerce operations management service. Our commitment to our clients doesn’t end with launching an ecommerce website, our responsibility is to ensure continued growth and success through the monitoring, analysing, performance and support of our clients’ entire ecommerce estate.

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.

We are looking for someone who will help define and execute our approach, keep their team excited, engaged, motivated, and challenged, and consult, support, and deliver our clients’ ecommerce day-to-day needs to support their online growth. Come and join one of the most progressive, exciting and ambitious ecommerce agencies in the UK as our Head of Ecommerce Operations.

The successful candidate will be an experienced and ambitious support lead; someone who is technically proficient in web technologies; someone organised and a highly effective communicator; someone who can bring ideas, effect change, and who wants to make a difference.

Role and Responsibilities

Manage and direct the work of the application and technical support team by reviewing customer issues on a regular basis to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and quality are delivered exceeding SLAs
Manage our 24/7 incident support desk team
Develop and execute the ecommerce operations strategy including processes and future technical and application support offerings
Facilitate and help resolution of issues as needed. Help to prioritise issues and provide an interface to various teams including Product Management, QA, and Development to reduce the turnaround time for resolving client issues
Provide guidance and training on the application and technical environment
Manage critical and highly sensitive issues to resolution
Own the monitoring, uptime and log analysis of all client websites
Take responsibility for owning upgrades and security patches for platforms
Proactively manage and communicate with clients to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction
Stay current with products, initiatives and trends in the ecommerce industry to support our client services initiatives
Collaborate with other teams to maintain an ongoing understanding of features and functionality and translate the information into best practices for software optimisation
Contribute to the on-going enhancement of the customer knowledge base through planning and assigning the development of timely and relevant knowledge articles related to software use and best practices
Oversee our Trading Support and Training services for clients
Analyse workload and recommend improvements such a automation techniques
Proactive communication with customers to evaluate overall satisfaction and identify upcoming needs, including follow-up from NPS and customer surveys
Manage, mentor, and coach new and existing team members including conducting regular performance reviews and professional development
Interact with all levels of leadership within a customer portfolio ranging from analysts to C-Suite executives
Drive team performance to achieve key performance metrics related to productivity and satisfaction.

Core attributes/Essential skills

Experienced in working in a digital agency environment or fast-paced ecommerce environment
Strong commercial awareness
Solutions orientated, focusing on delivering customer benefit
Problem solver – analytical, logical and creative in equal measure
Flexible, helpful, resourceful, yet always delivery focused
Reliable team player who promotes collaboration
Keen interest in digital technology and ecommerce and how it can be utilised to solve complex problems
Has a diplomatic approach to all situations
An excellent communicator with strong team management skills. Distils complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions
Positive and calm under pressure
Can quickly separate the important tasks from the trivial with ability to identify the most useful next steps
Excels under pressure and can take on multiple challenges simultaneously
Highly adept within at least one mainstream project management methodology applicable to software development
Website development experience incorporating knowledge of usability best practices
Familiarity with ecommerce platforms such as Magento, Salesforce, Hybris, Shopify Plus

Innovation and ideas are at the heart of our business, and it’s this that sets us apart. If you want to be part of a company that embodies technical excellence and innovation, works on the cutting edge of emerging technologies, and truly values people and culture, then GENE is the place for you.

We never wanted to be just another digital agency. Instead of following best practice, we wanted to shape it. We were the first to release Apple Pay for the web on the Magento platform, and we have revolutionised Magento’s content management capability with our BlueFootCMS software which was acquired by Magento to become PageBuilder. As ecommerce partners we are trusted by clients such as PayPal, Braintree, Krispy Kreme, Tommee Tippee, Folio Society, and Madison Cycles.

It has always been important to us that our people find meaning in their work and truly enjoy what they do. And so everyone can achieve their ambitions and excel, we have placed a great emphasis on enabling bold, innovative thinking while nurturing a supportive culture of collaboration and accountability. Our drive and curiosity for innovation in an inclusive environment is at the heart of why we are inspired at work, and has enabled us to push the boundaries to create great change for our clients.

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

MAGENTO SUPPORT ANALYST

Come and join one of the most progressive, exciting and ambitious ecommerce agencies in the UK. As a Magento Support Analyst you will be responsible for providing technical support and assistance in the day to day running, operations and management of our clients ecommerce businesses on Magento 2.

This is a critical role providing a vital contribution to our clients’ success. We are looking for someone who has experience in support and troubleshooting application software; someone who has strong analytical and problem solving skills; someone who can communicate at all levels of technical understanding; someone who can deliver exceptional customer service that makes a real difference for our clients.

GENE COMMERCE is a leading ecommerce agency that has evolved from being a boutique ecommerce agency in Brighton, UK to one of the leading certified Magento Enterprise Partners with an international reputation. Our clients partner with us because they need a specialist that can out-think and out-manoeuvre their competitors and provide a level of service they won’t find anywhere else.

As a Magento Support Analyst you must have solid technical knowledge of the Magento 2 platform and be able to communicate effectively to understand the problem and find its solution. You will be customer-oriented and patient to deal with difficult customers absorbing and retaining information quickly, answering questions in a user-friendly language, presenting solutions and finding resolutions quickly and effectively, preserving the company’s reputation.

Duties and Responsibilities

1st and 2nd line support during UK business hours
Triage and take responsibility for incidents, investigate the root cause and follow their lifecycle through to resolution
Take a proactive approach to all incidents and problems raised
Support our delivery teams to ensure that major incidents are documented thoroughly, escalated properly and that client expectations are handled appropriately
Quality assure all work before handing back to the client
Monitor SLA response times and drive improvement through the business by identifying and suggesting improvements on procedures
Perform daily checks & a variety of support tasks within the support team and monitor alerting and reporting systems
Interact with client teams and DevOps to consult on issues and escalate where needed
Demonstrate ownership at all times to the customer and within the team
Engage in scheduled project work to undertake system upgrades, security patches & deployments
Participate in an on-call rota addressing issues out of hours.
Serve as the first point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance over the phone or email including Magento admin support
Determine the best solution based on the issue and details provided by clients
Write documentation, both for the client and internal teams in order to optimise future support in recurring circumstances (Wiki/FAQs)
Follow-up and update customer status and information

Core attributes/Essential skills

We are looking for someone driven and ambitious who has technical experience and a positive proactive attitude to join our ever-expanding team how can demonstrate:

Minimum 1 year in a similar Magento support role – application support, sysadmin, programming and customer service
Strong aptitude for problem solving, analysis and troubleshooting
Experience of QA testing and understanding its place within the development cycle
PHP & MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Linux experience
Experience of Magento Commerce Cloud
Exposure to Git, Docker and deployment processes
Mature problem-solving approach to quickly diagnose and implement solutions/resolutions quickly
Think laterally, with urgency and engage collaboratively and with positivity
Team player, able to learn/adapt quickly and take responsibility
A very strong customer focus, flexible, helpful, resourceful, yet always delivery focused
Keen interest in digital technology and ecommerce and how it can be utilised to solve complex problems
An excellent communicator with strong team management skills. Distils complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions
Can quickly separate the important tasks from the trivial with ability to identify the most useful next steps
Excels under pressure and can take on multiple challenges simultaneously staying positive and calm.

GENE is not your average agency. 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 groundbreaking products such as BlueFootCMS PageBuilder (acquired by Magento), our official Braintree extensions and the first Apple Pay, Alexa and VR integrations with Magento 2. 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.

What we can do for you

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading agency in a fast-moving growth industry. You will benefit from excellent training and career progression opportunities.

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

HEAD OF UX & CX DESIGN

We are looking for someone who can lead, inspire, and excite; someone who understands the importance of customer experience design; someone who is excited by what technology can do to transform businesses; someone who can research, think, design and evaluate exceptional ecommerce solutions that make a real difference for our clients.

Does that sound like you? If so, come and join one of the most progressive, exciting and ambitious ecommerce agencies in the UK as our Head of UX and CX Design.

We are looking for someone who will help lead and execute our user and customer experience design approach. This is a critical role within the agency to deliver our clients’ ecommerce strategies and support their online growth. Our commitment to our clients doesn’t end with launching an ecommerce website, our responsibility is to ensure continued growth and success through the continuous improvement, analysis and advice to support our clients’ entire ecommerce estate.

The successful candidate will be experienced and ambitious with a genuine and avid interest in digital products, ecommerce, design, data and trends; a highly effective designer and communicator who can bring ideas, effect change, and who wants to make a difference.

The role will involve being responsible for the full user experience design process; understand, research, sketch, design, implement and evaluate. Ultimately, making our clients’ websites and products more user-friendly and intuitive to improve conversion and retain customers, understanding that small changes can have big impacts.

Good customer experience design is always part of the product development process so you will play a vital role leading the design as part of the planning, development and delivery teams. 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 crucial role for all our projects.

Role and Responsibilities :

Define our digital experience strategy, design, product development and website user experience collaborating with PM’s solution specialists, designers, CRO teams, QA’s and developers
Workshop facilitation, user journey mapping, researching, designing, storytelling / presentations and user testing etc.
Research, analysing data and information to understand and challenging client briefs
Working in collaboration across project managers, UX, UI and technologists delivering client centric creative digital projects and services.
Demonstrate creative flair as well as strategic thinking
Working closely with the client to understand their brief and develop the appropriate digital strategy and execute across ecommerce products and websites
Designing and implementing a mix of quantitative and qualitative research into target audiences
Strategy development: distilling insight into opportunities and actionable roadmaps
Product Management, development and business analysis: defining and prioritising features and user stories but this is a strategic role not working in a software team
Designing and running optimisation programmes (CRO)
Working with creative and UI designers to incorporate a visual or brand identity into the finished product
Understanding of user psychology and behavioural economic
Create personas through user research and data
Define the right interaction model and evaluate its success
Developing and maintaining design wireframes and specifications
Find creative ways to solve UX problems
Keep abreast of best practice industry trends and emergent technologies and behaviours.
Be our thought leader and spokesperson for Customer Experience Design

Core attributes/Essential skills

Experienced in working in a digital agency environment or fast-paced ecommerce environment
Strong commercial awareness
Solutions orientated, focusing on delivering customer benefit
Problem solver – analytical, logical and creative in equal measure
Flexible, helpful, resourceful, yet always delivery focused
Reliable team player who promotes collaboration
Keen interest in digital technology and ecommerce and how it can be utilised to solve complex problems
Has a diplomatic approach to all situations
An excellent communicator with strong team management skills. Distils complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions
Positive and calm under pressure
Can quickly separate the important tasks from the trivial with ability to identify the most useful next steps
Excels under pressure and can take on multiple challenges simultaneously
Highly adept within at least one mainstream project management methodology applicable to software development
Website development experience incorporating knowledge of usability best practices
Familiarity with ecommerce platforms such as Magento, Salesforce, Hybris, Shopify Plus
Experienced in working in a digital agency environment or fast-paced ecommerce environment
Experience as an analytical and creative designer who is able to grasp user needs and solve problems.
A strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects
Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture
Proficient in design software
Accuracy and attention to detail

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

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

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

FRONT-END DEVELOPERS

Come and join one of the most progressive, exciting and ambitious ecommerce agencies in the UK.

GENE, twice voted ‘Best Ecommerce Agency’ at the 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. 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 never wanted to be just another digital agency. Instead of following best practice, we wanted to shape it. We were the first to release Apple Pay for the web on the Magento platform and we have revolutionised Magento’s content management capability with our BlueFootCMS software which was acquired by Magento to become PageBuilder. As ecommerce partners we are trusted by clients such as PayPal, Braintree, Krispy Kreme, Tommee Tippee, Folio Society and Temple Spa.

Our progressive approach encourages a culture where everyone feels empowered, challenged and motivated to succeed. 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.

Enough about us…what about the role:

We are looking for experienced, talented and ambitious Front-end developers 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 HTML5, CSS3
excellent responsive design and development experience
sass, less and gulp
robust JavaScript skill-set increasing experience with ReactJS
an understanding of and working alongside PHP
working knowledge of Photoshop/Sketch for asset extraction and be able to advise on new approaches such as Material Design
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
Exceptional attention to detail and a love and appreciation for user experience

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.

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]

MAGENTO BACKEND DEVELOPERS

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

What we can do for you

We are a remote-first business but have great offices in the centre of Brighton, London & Liverpool
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
Flexible working patterns

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!

How to apply

Please send us your CV, covering letter and portfolio to [email protected]