# Senior Software Engineer - E-commerce (PHP) at Alma
> Posted: 2026-09-07 | Status: Active | Source: StoreJobs.dev

## Role Metadata
- **Employment Type:** Full-Time
- **Workplace:** Hybrid — Paris, France
- **Experience Level:** Senior / Manager
- **Primary Platform:** #magento
- **Salary Range:** Undisclosed
- **Required Stack:** magento, woocommerce, shopify, PHP, Composer, Docker, Sylius, PrestaShop, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, GitHub, TypeScript, Python, Git, SFCC, go-task

## Job Description
About the team
You'll join the CMS Engineering Team under François Gomis, Engineering Manager. We're a team of 4 engineers (1 senior, 2 intermediate) plus a part-time PM, building and maintaining Alma's payment plugins across 6 major e-commerce platforms (Sylius, Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Shopify, SFCC). We're scaling our capacity to deliver more seamlessly across our ecosystem and empower our team's technical growth.
This position is a permanent contract (CDI), based in Paris OR open to full remote from Metropolitan France.

About the job
Plugin Architecture
- Improve the architecture of existing plugins and guide AI agents in creating new plugins with clean, maintainable structures.
- Set patterns that scale across our plugin ecosystem.

Code Quality
- Implement review standards, enforce PHP patterns, set up linting/testing tools, and audit test coverage.
- Lead code reviews and pair programming sessions to help intermediate engineers grow technically.

Best Practices & Continuous Improvement
- Facilitate and lead refinement sessions, help the team iterate on processes, and embed a culture of continuous improvement across the CMS squad.

Cross-Platform Consistency
- Harmonize patterns and conventions across Sylius, Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Shopify, and SFCC to reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.

About you
To succeed in this job
- Solid expertise in PHP and backend architecture
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining plugins
- Ability to design systems that scale across multiple platforms
- Track record of mentoring or growing other engineers

And it will be nice if you also
- Have deep expertise in at least one major CMS (Magento, Sylius, or WooCommerce)
- Have informal leadership background or willingness to step into it
- Are open to work with AI tools in your development workflow

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

What's in it for you
If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on:
- Diverse, high-impact work — From architecture decisions to hands-on coding, across 6 major platforms serving 25,000+ merchants
- AI-powered development — Shape how we leverage AI agents and tools to accelerate plugin development and raise code quality
- Autonomy & ownership — Own areas of technical strategy, make architectural decisions, and drive improvements independently
- Team mentoring — Directly guide and grow intermediate engineers, setting technical direction and best practices for the CMS squad

## How to Apply
To view the original listing, see applicant requirements, or apply directly, visit:
https://storejobs.dev/jobs/mg-3875-senior-software-engineer-e-commerce-php?utm_source=ai_assistant