Vaimo, the global leader in delivering award-winning digital storefronts, omnichannel solutions and mobile apps on the Magento platform is looking for motivated and energetic Junior Frontend & Backend Developers to join our dynamic team.
With 13 global offices across EMEA, APAC and Africa and over 300 employees, we provide an international presence that allows us to cultivate close, long-term relationships with our clients. Magento recognised our leadership by selecting us as Commercial Partner in EMEA in 2017, Omnichannel Partner of the Year in 2016 and EMEA Partner of the Year in 2015.
With a focus on driving digital innovation our services cover the full-spectrum of eCommerce needs ranging from strategy, design, development, optimisation, hosting, to wherever our clients’ eCommerce initiatives reach.
As a System Developer you design, develop, test and document advanced e-commerce solutions for our clients. You are working with development of both client-specific and generic modules for Magento and system integrations between Magento and various Business systems. You also participate in the development of our internal tools and frameworks designed to effectively maintain a large number of customer installations. Our work environment consists of Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP7. Our continuous deployment platform is built with Python.
 
The product you will be working with is the most exciting in the field for those looking to work with professional e-commerce solutions. Magento offers a comprehensive list of functionality out of the box which provides us the opportunity to focus on developing cutting-edge features and improvements.
 
Key Responsibilities
 
• Plan, Develop, Test and Document advanced ecommerce solutions for our clients
• Develop customer specific and generic Magento modules
• Develop integrations between Magento and 3rd Party Products
• Improve our own continuous deployment platform which supports a large number of our clients
• Regularly attend internal training courses to maintain required skill set
• Develop solid solutions that are generic and reusable
• Ideal candidates are final year computer science students or recent graduates.
• Spent time focussing on PHP and MySQL as part of studies
• Keen interest and healthy experience in relevant web technologies
• Experience or Familiarity with:
* HTML, CSS, JavaScript
* Ubuntu Linux (Server)
• Basic understanding of the fundamentals of API integration and web services
• Previous experience in web development will be favourably considered!  eCommerce experience is especially desirable.
Benefits
• Basic salary: Negotiable – BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Opportunity to work on some of South Africa’s top retail brands
• Huge exposure to international developers, UX experts, project managers and development processes
• Opportunity to manage complex projects in a booming industry (e-commerce)
• Fantastic opportunity to receive training from Vaimo's Project Management Centre of Excellence in Sweden