Web Applications Developer

At Daniel Defense, Only the Best Build the Best…Daniel Defense engineers and manufactures the world's finest weapon systems and accessories. Our mission, Honor God. Defend Freedom®, is accomplished by serving customers and providing top-quality solutions to our military, law enforcement, and civilian customers seeking premium firearms for home defense, hunting, and sport shooting.

As the Web Applications Developer you will serve as the primary technical authority for the  ecommerce platform. Reporting to the Director of Digital Commerce, you will own platform development, administration, infrastructure health, integrations, and site performance across the Magento Open Source storefront. This is a hands-on role that combines front-end and back-end development, platform administration, and technical leadership of external development partners.

Essential Functions:

Magento Storefront Development Develop and maintain the customer-facing Magento Open Source storefront, including theme and template development, layout XML, RequireJS, Knockout.js, and React front-end components.

Own and extend the Three.js 3D product experience while maintaining performance requirements for a production ecommerce environment.

Work effectively in existing legacy and modern JavaScript codebases; ship reliable, well-tested production code.

Magento Platform Administration Serve as the primary Magento administrator; own technical and operational configuration of the platform.

Create, test, schedule, and maintain cart price rules, catalog price rules, promotions, and coupon codes.

Manage Magento users, roles, permissions, stores, websites, and core platform settings.

Manage API users, credentials, and access for connected systems.

Configure and troubleshoot shipping, payment, tax, and checkout settings in coordination with business and technical partners.

Support order management and customer service workflows within Magento Admin.

Review extensions, modules, and configuration changes before production deployment.

Document critical Magento configurations and administrative processes.

Platform Infrastructure and Reliability Own deployments, cache and index management, cron health, security patching, release cadence, and staging environments.

Manage Linux-based server environments including Nginx/Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, Varnish, Elasticsearch/Open Search, Composer, and Bash scripting.

Manage edge and delivery infrastructure including Cloudflare (WAF and bot mitigation), Amazon Cloud Front, S3, DNS, and SSL/TLS.Own monitoring and alerting for the commerce platform; maintain incident-response, rollback, and disaster-recovery procedures.

Maintain runbooks and architecture documentation so critical knowledge is not single-threaded.

Site Performance Own Core Web Vitals and overall site performance including LCP, CLS, and INP.Drive improvements to full-page caching, image and asset strategy, CDN configuration, and third-party script governance.

Identify performance regressions, determine root cause, and resolve rather than simply report.

Integrations Build, maintain, and troubleshoot integrations between Magento and platforms supporting email, customer service, ERP, shipping, tax, fraud prevention, and other business functions using REST APIs, GraphQL, and webhooks.

Manage the Magento side of integrations including API access, authentication, configuration, testing, and monitoring.

Own the technical connections to Listrak (email/CDP), Zendesk (customer support), Optimizely (experimentation), Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, One Trust (privacy), UpSellit (conversion), and  (payments).External Development Partners Direct the technical work of the external Magento development agency; own technical strategy independent of agency recommendations.

Scope projects, write technical requirements, evaluate proposed solutions, review code, conduct quality assurance, and approve work for production release.

Hold external partners accountable for quality and push back on solutions that are unnecessarily complex.

Analytics and Experimentation Maintain and implement Google Tag Manager, GA4 ecommerce event tracking, Microsoft Clarity, and server-side tagging.

Build A/B tests and personalization campaigns in Optimizely, including constructing test variants.

Ensure data collection is accurate, complete, and trustworthy for business decision-making.

Firearms Commerce Compliance Maintain and enhance the age-verification, FFL routing, and state-specific shipping…