Software Developer (WordPress)

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:

• Meeting with clients to discuss website design and function
• Designing and building the website's front-end
• Creating the website architecture
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins
• Conducting website performance tests
• Troubleshooting content issues
• Conducting WordPress training with the client
• Monitoring the performance of the live website
• Liaising with the organization's website stakeholders
• Gathering requirements to create custom WordPress plugins
• Assisting front-end developers
• Ensuring the WordPress platform instance is high performance
• Troubleshooting bugs and issues
• Plugin development
• Plugin customization
• Complete PHP customization
• Theme customization

Skills, Expertise, and Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering from a reputed institution
• At least 2 years hands-on experience with WordPress projects

Technical Skills:

• Coding skills
• Strong knowledge of common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions, and databases like MySQL
• Comprehensive knowledge of WordPress and WooCommerce architecture (e.g. custom post types, WordPress hooks, and existing WordPress functions)
• Knowledge of configuring and 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, with strong problem-solving skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3

Soft Skills:

• Teamwork
• Problem-solving
• Innovation and best coding practices
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Critical and out-of-the-box thinking
• Ability to upgrade skills and adapt to changes