ITP Media Group

Senior Software Developer - PHP WordPress

ITP Media Group Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Media Production · 201-500 employees

13 h ago
php Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

The Senior Software Developer will lead architectural planning, provide code reviews, and ensure best practices for security and performance on high-traffic WordPress websites. They will also design and develop internal tools to facilitate complex content migrations and support the team's development strategy.

What they look for

PHP WordPress MySQL Gutenberg Newspack RESTful APIs JSON Unit testing Functional testing Object oriented programming Procedural programming ReactJs JavaScript CSS Git Docker

Requirements

Candidates must have 4 to 8 years of experience as a PHP WordPress developer with expert knowledge of WordPress best practices and PHP/MySQL. Proficiency in modern web technologies like ReactJs, RESTful APIs, and version control systems is required.

Full description

ITP Media Group

www.itp.com

Location - BKC, Bandra East. We are looking for Mumbai living candidates only for this job

Experience - 4 to 8 Years as PHP WordPress Developer.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced work environment, and we currently have an opportunity for

Senior Software Developer - PHP WordPress to make an immediate impact on our team. Foremost, we are looking for someone who is positive, supportive, self-starting, and is ready for that next big leap in their career!

Mandatory Skills - Core WordPress Developer

Additional Advantage to have skills - Gutenberg , Newspack Theme

  • Comfortable with both object oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
  • Modifying existing code with new features available in current and future
  • deployments of PHP/MySQL
  • Efficiently handles tasks in a reasonable amount of time
  • Creative mind to develop innovative and unique solutions to complex problems on
  • high traffic websites
  • Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON.
  • Understanding of unit and functional testing best practices.

PHP 5 & 7

  • Know the history of PHP versioning, especially the migration path from 5 to 7
  • Know the differences between PHP CLI, PHP FPM and PHP NGINX
  • Capable of configuring a stable PHP application using php.ini on a variety of platforms
  • Capable of configuring and utilising debug in your programming workflow
  • Capable of writing code that is compliant with PSR2 Standards

Wordpress - Wordpress development is mandatory

  • Advise and consult on WordPress development best practices, including coding
  • standards, security, and performance.
  • Guide the team on architectural planning and decisions.
  • Providing code review and testing according to best practices.
  • Assist with theme and plugin development.
  • Design, develop, test, and refine internal tools to facilitate complex migrations of
  • content from non-WordPress sites into WordPress sites and that support the team’s
  • work.
  • Participate in team-wide strategy and planning conversations.
  • Expert knowledge of WordPress development best practices, especially security and
  • performance.
  • Experience with developing and supporting high-profile, high-traffic WordPress websites
  • Familiarity with Advanced JavaScript and CSS.
  • ReactJs

MySQL

  • Can work directly with the MySQL data layer using either CLI or GUI tooling
  • Can import / export data sets
  • You should be able to setup indexes and foreign key constraints
  • Understand relational data setup and performance bottlenecks.

Other experience includes:

  • Dev Ops – AWS, Linux/Bash, Apache2, Nginx, Docker/Vagrant/Virtual Servers
  • PHP Core – PHP 5, PHP 7, MySQL
  • PHP Frameworks – Laravel, Symfony
  • PHP Tooling – Xdebug, Composer, PHP-CS, PSR2 Coding Standards
  • Front End – NPM/Yarn, Web-pack, React/Angular/Vue, Bootstrap/Reactive Design
  • Tooling – Version Control (git)
  • writer.editor.GO_TO_TOP
  • writer.editor.GO_TO_BOTTOM

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