WordPress Developer (Backend)

WordPress Developer is responsible for building and maintaining WordPress websites, including customizing existing themes, developing custom plugins, and implementing new functionality as needed.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Designing and building the websites front-end

• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration

• Generating WordPress themes and plugins

• Monitoring the performance of the live website

• Liaise with the organization's website stakeholders

• Gather requirements to create custom WordPress plugins

• Ensure the WordPress platform instance is high performance

• Plugin development

• Plugin Customization

• Complete PHP customization

• Theme customization

Skills, Expertise, and Qualifications -

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in computer science, Information technology or software engineering from reputed institution

• Atleast 2 years hands-on-experience of wordpress projects

Technical Skills:

• Coding skills

• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions and Databases like MySQL etc.

• Complete knowledge of WordPress & WooCommerce architecture (e.g. custom post types, WordPress Hooks, and existing WordPress functions)

• Knowledge of configuring & customizing themes, plugins, and templates

• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (we use GIT)

• Good at debugging, and must have problem-solving skills

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3