Quick Summary
Lazer is a world-class digital product studio comprising over 180 senior engineers and designers from companies like Apple, Google, and Coinbase. With extensive product experience, we have designed, engineered, and scaled products from $0 to $200M in revenue. Clients seek our expertise for our deep understanding of their needs and our uniquely valuable industry, technical, and product insights. Our diverse client base includes early-stage startups, venture studios, recognizable retail brands, and exciting enterprises such as Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, and Polymarket. We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We foster a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, and unlimited PTO, ensuring the best experience for all Lazerites. Join Lazer to help us solve complex problems and build the next generation of products!
Job Summary
Lazer is seeking a Senior Magento Engineer to join our Commerce Team. In this crucial role, you will lead the migration, implementation, upgrading, and optimization of Magento Commerce platforms for large enterprise brands. You will collaborate closely with clients, lead projects, and ensure seamless integrations, performance optimization, and bug fixes across the Magento ecosystem. Your expertise will contribute to creating scalable, high-performance eCommerce solutions, working with one of the strongest Magento-focused engineering teams in the market. Please Note: This is a Contract position (hourly rate). The ideal candidate should align their working hours to Eastern Time (ET) or Pacific Time (PT).
The Role
Magento Implementation & Migration
- Lead full-scale Magento Commerce implementations, migrations, and upgrades for enterprise brands.
- Migrate eCommerce platforms from legacy systems such as Salesforce, Shopify, WooCommerce, or BigCommerce to Magento.
- Manage large-scale data migrations, including customer, order, and product data.
Magento Upgrades & Performance Optimization
- Upgrade Magento versions to the latest releases while ensuring backward compatibility and seamless operation.
- Diagnose and resolve infrastructure, performance bottlenecks, and server-related issues to optimize site speed and reliability.
- Implement scalability improvements for high-traffic eCommerce platforms.
Troubleshooting & Bug Fixing
- Debug and resolve issues related to broken functionality, integrations, or third-party extensions.
- Ensure PCI compliance, security best practices, and performance optimizations in all Magento solutions.
Custom Development & Integrations
- Develop custom Magento modules, extensions, and integrations for ERP (e.g., NetSuite), OMS, WMS, and third-party platforms.
- Work with headless commerce architectures, integrating Magento with React, Next.js, or Vue.js frontends.
- Develop and maintain APIs and microservices that connect Magento to other enterprise systems.
Further Qualifications
- Have 5+ years of experience working with Magento Commerce (Adobe Commerce).
- Are experts in PHP, Magento 2, MySQL, and GraphQL with strong backend development experience.
- Have extensive experience with Magento upgrades, performance tuning, and debugging complex eCommerce applications.
- Have worked with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for hosting and scaling Magento applications.
- Understand Magento theming, PWA (Progressive Web Apps), and modern frontend frameworks.
- Have experience integrating Magento with ERP, CMS, OMS, and WMS solutions.
- Are proactive problem solvers with strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Can work independently and take ownership of projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
AI in Our Hiring Process
We use AI to help us review and shortlist applications based on job-related criteria. A human hiring manager always makes the final decision on who moves forward. As a company that builds with AI every day, we encourage candidates to use it too—just be upfront about how it helped.
Why Work With Us
- Accelerate Your Growth: Work across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects with a team that ships fast.
- Maximum Impact: Shape the future of the tech industry by helping ambitious projects reach their potential.
- True Ownership: Everyone ships code and has real autonomy with minimal meetings.
- Continuous Learning: Be part of a team of senior engineers and designers who love learning and knowledge sharing.
Why This Might Not Be For You
- You Resist Modern Tools: We leverage AI and cutting-edge technology to build rapidly and focus our energy on solving the most complex, high-impact challenges for our clients.
- You Crave High Structure: We thrive in an autonomous, fast-moving environment, which means you need to be comfortable with some ambiguity.
- You Prefer Conventional Careers: Our consulting approach involves varied projects and direct client interaction—it's not for everyone.
- You Like Staying in One Lane: Our projects require adapting to different tech stacks and modern tooling quickly.
Benefits & Perks
- Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace—all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!
- Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.
- Employee Care: We provide full benefits (healthcare, dental, vision) for our employees (401k for our US employees).
- Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.
- Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii—plus ones welcome.