Job Description
Join Net World Sports on our mission to become the worlds leading sports equipment retailer. Nothing excites us more than finding hungry, talented individuals and unleashing them in a team capable of achieving incredible things.
Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to take on a leading role within our Magento 2 development team. Youll be a key figure in shaping the architecture, ensuring high performance across multiple websites, and guiding a skilled team of engineers. If you have deep Magento experience, a passion for clean code, and thrive in a fast-paced e-commerce environment, wed love to hear from you.
WHAT YOULL DO:
- Lead the Magento 2 engineering team across multiple web stores and application instances in a high-volume e-commerce environment.
- Set and maintain technical standards, conduct architectural reviews, and ensure best practices across the codebase.
- Drive performance improvements across frontend and backend with a focus on scalability, speed, and resilience.
- Support the delivery of business-critical features while maintaining high-quality code and system stability.
- Collaborate with other technical leads, Product Owner, QA, and DevOps to plan and deliver roadmap initiatives.
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines and testing practices to support continuous delivery.
- Provide line management, coaching, and technical mentorship to a team of Magento developers.
- Own and drive resolution of platform-level issues (performance, technical debt, refactoring, upgrades, etc.).
- Optionally facilitate Scrum ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and contribute to improving delivery processes.
- Engage in regular code reviews, architecture sessions, and technical decision-making.
- Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and performance evaluations of developers under your leadership.
WHAT YOULL BRING:
- Extensive hands-on experience with Magento 2 Open Source, including deep architectural and custom module development knowledge.
- Strong Hyv theme experience and in-depth understanding of performance optimisation in headless and non-headless contexts.
- Proven track record of resolving performance issues using profilers such as Blackfire, New Relic.
- Solid experience in leading engineering teams setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, mentoring, and line management.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Unit testing and CI/CD pipelines as part of the daily workflow.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and strong expertise in RabbitMQ.
- Experience using Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js within Magento projects.
- Knowledge of Magento 2 best practices, including use of service contracts, dependency injection, and declarative schema.
- A strong engineering mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and an interest in scalable architecture and clean code.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Magento 2 certification (nice to have).
- Experience with Adobe Commerce (nice to have).
- Experience acting as a Scrum Master (nice to have).
WHAT YOU'LL GET:
- Health & Wellbeing Workouts, Run Club, Nature Trail, Wellness Allowances, Gym Memberships, On-Site Gym (Coming Soon!), Golf Memberships & Mental Health Support
- 29 Days Annual Leave (Including Bank Holidays)- Increases with Length of Service
- Flexible Working Hours
- Social Events Busy Schedule of Parties, Sports Tournaments, Charity Events & Lots More!
- Table Tennis, Pool Tables & Sports Equipment in the Office
- Additional Benefits Available - Vitality Private Health Insurance, Help to Buy Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounted Travel Schemes & Lots More!
- Product Discount on Net World Sports & Affiliate Partner Products
- Subsidised On-Site Bistro - Serving Freshly Prepared Food Every Day for Breakfast & Lunch
- Employee Recognition - Bonus & Commission Schemes and Performance, Length of Service & Life Event Rewards
- Employee Support - Saving Schemes, Legal & Financial Advice, Parental Guidance
OUR VALUES:
- Go above and beyond: Get stuck in and show your passion!
- Ideas over hierarchy: If you have an idea, speak up! It doesnt matter what role youre in, we want everyone to shout about ways the business can develop and improve.
- Be bold, move fast: We value speed; we make fast decisions, trust our guts and get things done as efficiently as possible.
- Keep it simple: Dont over-complicate it!
- Results driven: We embrace results that drive positive change, even if it means occasional failure. Mistakes are valuable as long as we learn from them and avoid repeating them.
- Growth: Were a fast-growing business and we want our staff to grow with us.
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