For over 20 years, Gorilla has been devising, creating, and implementing end-to-end ecommerce solutions. We’re a client-driven culture, looking for resourceful, motivated, and talented individuals to help us exceed our client’s expectations at every turn. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading brands, collaborate with some of the brightest people in the industry, and share in our mutual success.
Gorilla Group is seeking a full-time PHP Development Team Lead to join our Managed Services department. This person will assist in leading our ongoing support of existing ecommerce solutions as well as developing other members of our team.
- Technical leader of development team across international office locations
- Consult on technical solutions to advance client business requirements
- Actively participate in client technical discussions
- Enforce and improve Gorilla standards and best practices
- Provide training, technical feedback and direction to team members
- Onboard and mentor new team members
- Actively code solutions to client requests
- Extensive PHP Experience of more than 3 years (PHP 5/7)
- Magento platform experience
- Understanding of Object Oriented principles, design patterns
- Experience with web services (SOAP, XML-RPC, REST)
- Experience with MySQL database
- Ability to author high quality technical documentation
- Java programming knowledge is desired but not required
- Experience using Linux to maintain and configure Apache/MySQL web servers
- High level commerce engineering knowledge
- Proven success in development team leadership
- Upper-Intermediate English language skills
- Effective customer facing technical communication
- Desire to propose and drive changes within a team and the organization
- Exceptional time management skills and the ability to smoothly transition between different tasks and projects
- Must be able to work self-directed as well as part of a team
- Private medical care
- Multisport card
- English classes (covered by company)
- Trainings and possibility of certification
- Being a part of an international team and work closely with US team
- Travels to Chicago office after longer stay within company