PHP and Laravel Developer

Regent Campus D2; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Regent Campus D2 is seeking an experienced PHP and WordPress Developer in Chennai for hybrid work. You will build and maintain WordPress sites, develop custom plugins/themes, and integrate REST APIs with third-party systems.

The role requires strong PHP/MySQL backend skills, WordPress multisite expertise, and experience with WooCommerce, LMS, and AWS. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and secure coding practices are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional PHP development
• Strong hands-on experience with WordPress
• Proven experience developing custom WordPress plugins and themes
• Experience building and integrating REST APIs
• Strong MySQL and backend development knowledge
• Experience troubleshooting WordPress performance and security issues

Responsibilities

• Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites and web applications using PHP.
• Build custom WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
• Customize existing WordPress themes and plugins based on business requirements.
• Develop and extend WordPress functionality using actions, filters, hooks, shortcodes, custom post types, and taxonomies.
• Work with the WordPress REST API to build and consume APIs.
• Integrate WordPress with third-party systems and external APIs.
• Develop and maintain WooCommerce functionality, customizations, and integrations.
• Work on membership websites, LMS platforms, and WordPress multisite environments when required.
• Develop secure and scalable backend functionality using PHP and MySQL.
• Optimize WordPress websites for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve slow-loading websites, database issues, plugin conflicts, PHP errors, and server-side issues.
• Identify and resolve WordPress security vulnerabilities and handle compromised websites when required.
• Implement secure coding practices and protect sensitive credentials, API keys, and user data.
• Work with caching, CDN, database optimization, image optimization, and other website performance techniques.
• Manage code using Git/GitHub and follow proper branching and code review practices.
• Support deployment and maintenance using Linux, Apache/Nginx, AWS, and CI/CD environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide root-cause analysis and permanent solutions.
• Collaborate with designers, frontend developers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.
• Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Skills

WordPress

PHP

REST API

MySQL

Laravel

WooCommerce

LMS

WordPress multisite

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Apache/Nginx

AWS

HTML/CSS/JS

Custom plugin/theme development

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

AWS

Linux

Apache/Nginx

Job description

Job Title: PHP Developer

Experience: 26+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Chennai / Hybrid

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced PHP and WordPress Developer with strong hands‑on experience in WordPress development, PHP, custom plugin/theme development, REST APIs, database management, and website performance optimization.

The ideal candidate should be capable of developing and maintaining customized WordPress solutions, integrating third‑party APIs, troubleshooting performance and security issues, and working with modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel.

Experience with WooCommerce, membership platforms, LMS, WordPress multisite, AWS, Git, CI/CD, and Laravel will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites and web applications using PHP.
• Build custom WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
• Customize existing WordPress themes and plugins based on business requirements.
• Develop and extend WordPress functionality using actions, filters, hooks, shortcodes, custom post types, and taxonomies.
• Work with the WordPress REST API to build and consume APIs.
• Integrate WordPress with third‑party systems and external APIs.
• Develop and maintain WooCommerce functionality, customizations, and integrations.
• Work on membership websites, LMS platforms, and WordPress multisite environments when required.
• Develop secure and scalable backend functionality using PHP and MySQL.
• Optimize WordPress websites for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve slow‑loading websites, database issues, plugin conflicts, PHP errors, and server‑side issues.
• Identify and resolve WordPress security vulnerabilities and handle compromised websites when required.
• Implement secure coding practices and protect sensitive credentials, API keys, and user data.
• Work with caching, CDN, database optimization, image optimization, and other website performance techniques.
• Manage code using Git/GitHub and follow proper branching and code review practices.
• Support deployment and maintenance using Linux, Apache/Nginx, AWS, and CI/CD environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide root‑cause analysis and permanent solutions.
• Collaborate with designers, frontend developers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.
• Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and well‑documented code.

Required Skills:

• WordPress
• Strong hands‑on experience with WordPress development
• Custom plugin development from scratch
• Custom theme development from scratch
• Strong understanding of:
• WordPress Hooks
• Actions & Filters
• Custom Post Types
• Taxonomies
• Shortcodes
• WordPress Template Hierarchy
• WordPress database structure
• User roles and capabilities
• Experience with WordPress REST API
• WordPress troubleshooting and debugging
• WordPress security and hardening
• WordPress performance optimization
• PHP
• Strong proficiency in PHP
• Object‑Oriented Programming
• MVC concepts
• Clean and maintainable coding practices
• Experience with PHP frameworks, preferably Laravel
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Database
• Strong knowledge of MySQL
• Database design and optimization
• SQL query optimization
• Troubleshooting database performance issues
• API & Integrations
• REST API development and integration
• Third‑party API integrations
• JSON/XML
• Authentication mechanisms
• Payment gateway/API integration experience is an advantage
• Version Control & Deployment
• Git / GitHub
• CI/CD
• Linux
• Apache / Nginx
• AWS experience is an advantage

Good to Have

• WooCommerce development experience
• Membership website development
• LMS platform development
• WordPress Multisite
• Laravel experience
• CodeIgniter experience
• Redis
• AWS
• CI/CD pipelines
• PHPUnit / unit testing
• Experience with Stripe, PayPal, WhatsApp API, Telegram API, or similar integrations
• Experience working with SaaS, ERP, CRM, or other enterprise applications

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of professional PHP development
• Strong hands‑on experience with WordPress
• Proven experience developing custom WordPress plugins and themes
• Experience building and integrating REST APIs
• Strong MySQL and backend development knowledge
• Experience troubleshooting WordPress performance and security issues

working: onsite - in person.

Work Location: In person