Software Engineer - Magento

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About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

Our Technology Solutions team is looking for a Software Engineer, experienced in the ecommerce field, to work within a new cross-departmental e-commerce product team. Using Agile methodologies, the team will produce robust products, services and integrations to help deliver the digital ambitions and goals of the Natural History Museum.

The developer will work predominantly on our Magento ecommerce platform, to design, build and maintain custom features and third party modules (e.g. SCommerce, Xtento, Amasty) and integrations with our other back-end business and information systems (Dynamics365, eGalaxy Ticketing, Cybertill).

The position offers high autonomy to really make a difference, and support to learn and master new technologies from an existing team of experienced developers, analysts and support staff.

About you

You will have significant experience working with and developing for e-commerce platforms (such as Magento) and payment gateways (such as Worldpay or Stripe), as well as backend PHP development using enterprise scale frameworks such as Magento, Zend or Symfony. You will be comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary Product team using Agile methodologies and keen to broaden your skills to cover a wider range of web platforms and languages. You will already be well versed in Restful Web Services and software development and delivery processes and tools. Salary: £45,000 per annum

Please note that we are reviewing applications as they are received and reserve the right to bring forward the closing date for applications once we have received a number of suitable candidates. With this in mind, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

How to apply

If that sounds like you please apply online on the Natural History Museum's careers portal, and provide:

A comprehensive curriculum vitae giving details of relevant achievements in recent posts as well as your education and professional qualifications.

A covering letter that summarises your interest in this post, providing evidence of your ability to match the criteria outlined in the person specification.

To apply, please visit https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/ and upload your CV with a covering letter, which clearly outlines how you meet our person specification.