Junior Magento 2 Developer

We’re looking for a Junior Magento 2 Dev to bring their passion for ecommerce systems and development into our Mr Price technology team!

This role falls into our Customer Commerce team which consists of amazing, innovative individuals and are focused on developing and improving our internal e-commerce and instore systems, that will take the Mr Price Group into the future!

What we're looking for:

  • Relevant IT Diploma or Degree
  • A minimum of 2 years’ experience in the below tech stack:Magento 1 or 2PHPMySQL or Microsoft SQL ServerJavaScriptHTML/CSSSource Version Control like Github or BitBucket
  • Magento 1 or 2
  • PHP
  • MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • Source Version Control like Github or BitBucket

A day in your life:

  • Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
  • Working with modules/extensions development/customization
  • Theme integrations/customizations
  • API creation/integrations
  • Develop, enhance and maintain applications that conform to user requirements and specified architectural design in the ecommerce space (websites and web applications)
  • Taking technical direction from Senior Developers
  • Version Control
  • Estimating development timelines
  • Solving technical problems
  • Test the software with various forms of testing including Stress, Integration and Unit
  • Conduct post implementation monitoring and support
  • Compile and maintain technical and support documentation
  • Working with Waterfall/Agile methodologies for project delivery
  • Partnering with all levels of the project teams (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Managers etc) and 3rd party technical vendors
Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. We love where we work, and we think you will, too. We're on a mission. A mission to be the best. We pride ourselves on our fast-moving, fast-working and collaborative culture. Our people are our success, and that's why we love people with a point of view. We hire for attitude and train for skill - so, what does that mean for you? It means that if you're passionate and you have a great attitude, then you're one step closer to joining our family. We're a company made up of free-thinkers, doers, makers, creators, crafters, art lovers, tech heads, planners, disruptors, wordsmiths, number crunchers, pun enthusiasts, engineers, left and right-brainers, award winners ... you get the picture. We take our work seriously. But ourselves? Not so much.