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E-commerce

Hire Magento Developers

Magento developers build and maintain complex online stores, often with large catalogues, several storefronts, B2B pricing or heavy customisation.

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The role

What Magento developers do

Magento, also sold as Adobe Commerce, is powerful and complex. A Magento developer builds modules, customises themes, applies upgrades and security patches, and tunes speed with caching and indexing. Much of the work is maintaining and upgrading existing stores.

Typical deliverables

  • Custom Magento modules
  • Theme work, including Hyvä themes
  • Version upgrades and security patches
  • ERP and inventory integrations
  • Performance tuning

Tools you will see

  • Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce
  • PHP
  • Hyvä
  • OpenSearch
  • Redis and Varnish
  • Composer

Choosing

How to choose Magento developers

What to look for

  • Magento 2 experience specifically.
  • Upgrades and patches done through staging environments.
  • Speed work involving caching and indexing.
  • Module code that follows Magento conventions.

Questions to ask

  1. 1How would you approach upgrading our Magento version?
  2. 2Have you worked with Hyvä?
  3. 3How would you make our store faster?
  4. 4How do you connect Magento to an ERP?

Planning

Before you post the job

Total running cost

Magento needs specialised hosting and regular maintenance. Include those costs when comparing platforms.

What drives cost

Customisation level, number of storefronts and languages, integrations and upgrade work.

Hiring on Open Lance

  • Posting a job and reviewing proposals are free.
  • Each milestone is funded into escrow before work starts and paid when you approve it.
  • Hire fixed-price, hourly, as a monthly Dedicated Hire, or buy a packaged Drop-In.
  • Client fees are shown before you pay and added on top of the work.

How escrow and approval work · Pricing

FAQ

Questions about hiring Magento developers

Is Magento 1 still supported?

No. Stores on Magento 1 should move to Magento 2 or another platform.

What is Hyvä?

A lighter, modern front-end theme for Magento 2 that makes stores noticeably faster.

Magento or Shopify Plus?

Magento allows deeper customisation; Shopify Plus needs less maintenance. Complex B2B needs often favour Magento.

Related

Related skills

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