Senior Fullstack Magento Developer (Level Shoes)

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What You'll Be Doing

We are looking for an experienced Senior Fullstack Magento Developer to join our e-commerce development team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust Magento-based applications to support our e-commerce operations. You will also focus on rewriting and optimizing legacy projects built by third parties, ensuring they adhere to Magento standards and best practices.

To succeed in this role, you should have a deep understanding of Magento's architecture, excellent coding skills, and a passion for automation and scalability. A strong grasp of CI/CD workfl ows and e-commerce application development is essential. Ultimately, a top-class Magento Senior Developer will ensure high-performing, secure, and scalable solutions while improving development processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the development/product team to discuss and implement e-commerce solutions.
• Reviewing and analyzing requirements, designs, and third-party integrations for Magento-based projects.
• Rewriting and refactoring projects developed by third parties to align with Magento best practices and standards.
• Developing custom modules and extending Magento functionality using the Magento API.
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing Magento-based applications for performance and scalability.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and maintain code integrity.
• Ensuring adherence to Magento coding standards, security guidelines, and automation practices.
• Maintaining and improving integrations with third-party services such as payment gateways, CRMs, and marketing platforms.
• Profiling and improving the performance of back-end components.
• Writing and maintaining unit tests, integration tests, and automated regression tests.
• Monitoring system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and proposing optimizations.
• Documenting development processes, configurations, and best practices for team collaboration.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Proven experience as a Magento 2 Developer, with a minimum of 5 years in e-commerce application development.
• Strong knowledge of Magento 2 architecture, including module development, API’s, and customizations.
• In-depth understanding of PHP and MySQL
• Experience rewriting or refactoring legacy Magento projects created by third parties.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and related tools (e.g., Bitbucket pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions).
• Strong understanding of Magento coding standards, automation tools, and best practices.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like Knockout.js, RequireJS, and LESS, with experience in integrating modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React or Vue.js) into Magento.
• Hands-on experience with Magento performance optimization techniques (e.g., Varnish, Redis, database indexing).
• Familiarity with containerization and DevOps tools such as Docker and Kubernetes .
• Experience with automated testing tools such as PHPUnit, Selenium, or Cypress.
  Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong project management and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with large-scale e-commerce systems and complex third-party integrations.
• Familiarity with Progressive Web Applications (PWA) and Magento PWA Studio.
• Knowledge of Magento Marketplace submission processes and guidelines.
  Certification as a Magento Certified Developer is a plus.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and is passionate about building and maintaining cutting-edge e-commerce applications. If you’re committed to delivering high-quality Magento solutions and enhancing the performance of e-commerce systems, we’d love to hear from you.

What We Can Offer You

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality.  We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.  

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.  

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.