Requirements

• Magento experience required
• Significant PHP experience, including experience building object-oriented websites in PHP
• Familiarity with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, and previous experience developing web applications using this pattern or on existing MVC frameworks
• Solid experience interacting with MySQL database systems through abstraction layer (in addition to the ability to write raw SQL queries)
• Experience using PHP to create and consume web services (SOAP, XML-RPC) and/or other experience implementing data integrations within the Magento platform
• Front-end development experience with strong Javascript skills (including frameworks/libraries such as jQuery) as well as familiarity with accepted CSS and HTML design standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Magento development best practices, including extending existing functionality, creating custom modules, and working with its API
• Working experience with the ecommerce development process, and the ability to create solutions for common questions/concerns on this type of platform
• Experience with Zend Framework
• Understanding of common web analytics suites (Google Analytics, Omniture) and experience implementing these systems
• Comfortable researching and adopting new web technologies.
• Familiar with SEO / SEM best practices