Magento Software Engineer

About the position:

First Book is applying technology and business approaches to the challenge of providing all children in the US and Canada with access to books. First Book currently serves more than 20,000 Title I schools, afterschool initiatives, clinics, shelters, and a wide variety of other programs serving children in need. Though powerful, First Book is only reaching a small fraction of the approximately 2 million programs and Title I classrooms eligible for our help. We have exciting opportunities to use technology to serve more and more of these programs and are looking for a Programmer Analyst to join our technology team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Migration of Magento 1.x platform to a Magento 2.x platform
• Ability to take business requirements and design and build modules to suit the mission
• Development and enhancement of First Book Magneto storefront
• Develop reports and create custom modules within Magento ecommerce platform
• Research, develop logic, code, test, and deploy Magento/PHP application
• Modify and build on existing code base of Magento
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• 3-6 years of Magento experience
• 5-10 years of Information Technology experience
• Advanced understanding of eCommerce platforms and systems
• Must have first-rate knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL
• Strong working experience with Magento 2.x platform desired
• Familiarity with the Magento Cloud environment highly desired.
• Experience with building highly interactive, highly trafficked, database driven web applications
• Must have strong SQL query development experience
• · Good understanding of object oriented programming and programming principles
• · Comprehensive understanding of the Magento platform
• Solid PHP programming language experience
• · Advanced understanding of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript
• Advanced knowledge of MySQL database (developer fundamentals)

Education/Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required:

Technical Skill Set

• · Good understanding of object oriented programming and programming principles
• · Comprehensive understanding of the Magento platform
• Solid PHP programming language experience
• · Advanced understanding of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript
• Advanced knowledge of MySQL database (developer fundamentals)

See what First Book has been up to!:

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https://www.instagram.com/firstbookorg/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-book/