Company: Deploy
Location: Stoke-on-Trent (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)
Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 per annum, dependent on experience
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
About Deploy
Deploy is a leading name in Magento support, trusted by clients to keep business-critical eCommerce platforms running fast, secure, and reliable. We specialise in the ongoing care, optimisation, and evolution of Magento 2 stores, and we're looking for an experienced Magento Developer to join our team. We make use of Claude and other AI tools throughout our development workflow, so comfort working alongside AI-assisted coding tools is a real advantage.
The Role
We're looking for an experienced Magento Developer to join our team on a hybrid basis, with three days per week based in our Stoke-on-Trent office. Candidates must be within a commutable distance of Stoke-on-Trent.
You'll work across a portfolio of Magento 2 stores, contributing to new feature development, performance optimisation, third-party integrations, and day-to-day platform support alongside our development team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain custom modules and extensions on Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce/Open Source)
- Diagnose and resolve performance, functionality, and integration issues across live storefronts
- Integrate Magento with third-party systems (ERP, PIM, payment gateways, logistics, marketing tools) via APIs
- Implement and customise themes, layouts, and front-end templates
- Write clean, well-documented, testable PHP code following Magento best practice and coding standards
- Use Claude and other AI-assisted development tools to speed up coding, debugging, and documentation
- Participate in code reviews, deployments, and release management
- Work closely with project managers, designers, and QA to deliver projects on time and to spec
- Contribute to technical scoping and estimation for new features and client requests
- Keep up to date with Magento releases, security patches, and ecosystem changes
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven commercial experience developing on Magento 2 (minimum 3 years)
- Strong PHP development skills (PHP 7.4/8+), including OOP principles and design patterns
- Solid understanding of Magento's architecture: modules, dependency injection, plugins, observers, EAV
- Experience with MySQL, including query optimisation
- Front-end experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Knockout.js, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS
- Experience with version control (Git) and working in agile/sprint-based teams
- Familiarity with RESTful/GraphQL API integrations
- Understanding of Magento performance tools (Varnish, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch)
- Comfortable using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude) as part of the development workflow
- Based within a commutable distance of Stoke-on-Trent, able to work in-office 3 days per week
Desirable Skills
- Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) experience
- Experience with hyvä themes
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and cloud hosting (AWS, Adobe Commerce Cloud)
- Magento certification(s)
- Experience with Docker/containerised local development environments
- Exposure to other e-commerce platforms (Shopify, BigCommerce) is a plus
What We Offer
- Salary £40,000 – £50,000 (dependent on experience)
- Hybrid working: 3 days in our Stoke-on-Trent office, 2 days remote
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Ongoing training and certification support
- Friendly, collaborative team environment
Important
Candidates must already have the right to live and work in the UK, as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
No recruitment agencies, please. We are not working with agencies on this vacancy and will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches.
Pay: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stoke-on-Trent ST4 8GB
