Senior Magento 2 Tech Lead (Remote)

Forward Role; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role is seeking a seasoned Magento 2 developer/technical lead to own the technical direction of a Magento 2 platform. You will sit between the client and a digital agency, triaging issues, guiding integrations, and ensuring that releases are thoroughly tested before production.

With 5+ years of Magento experience, you will own architecture decisions, manage upgrades, and coordinate with external agencies to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years Magento 2 development experience (Open Source or Adobe Commerce).
• Strong PHP 8.x and Magento architecture knowledge (modules, plugins, observers, DI, EAV).
• Proven integration delivery using Magento REST and GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Keep the live Magento 2 store stable, secure and performant day to day.
• Triage and fix production issues, bugs and checkout or order flow problems.
• Apply security patches and manage extension updates and compatibility.
• Review version, PHP stack and hosting; set out upgrade path as needed.
• Monitor performance across caching, indexing, Varnish, Redis and search.
• Design and build integrations between Magento and ERP, PIM, OMS, payments, shipping and marketing platforms.
• Work with REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, queues and scheduled jobs.
• Make integrations resilient with logging, error handling and monitoring.
• Act as the client's technical lead for the digital agency; provide direction on architecture and priorities.
• Review agency estimates, specs and pull requests; translate business requirements into technical briefs.
• Own release coordination and environments to ensure production-tested deployments.

Skills

Magento 2

PHP 8.x

REST & GraphQL

CI/CD

Agency leadership

Tools

MySQL

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Forward Role is seeking a seasoned Magento 2 developer/technical lead to own the technical direction of a Magento 2 platform. You will sit between the client and a digital agency, triaging issues, guiding integrations, and ensuring that releases are thoroughly tested before production.

With 5+ years of Magento experience, you will own architecture decisions, manage upgrades, and coordinate with external agencies to deliver robust, scalable solutions.