Senior Software Developer - PHP WordPress

ITP Media Group; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ITP Media Group in Mumbai is seeking a Senior Software Developer specializing in PHP and WordPress to join our fast-paced team. You will design, develop, and optimize WordPress-based solutions for high-traffic sites, collaborating closely with designers and other developers to deliver robust features.

The ideal candidate has 4–8 years of WordPress development experience, strong knowledge of PHP 5/7, RESTful APIs, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of PHP WordPress development experience.
• Strong WordPress development skills; themes/plugins.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and high-traffic WordPress sites.

Responsibilities

• Develop PHP WordPress features for high-traffic sites.
• Lead WordPress theme and plugin development.
• Ensure security, performance, and code quality across projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions.

Skills

Core WordPress Development

Gutenberg

Newspack Theme

RESTful APIs & JSON

ReactJs

Tools

Xdebug

Composer

PSR2 Coding Standards

Job 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)
  




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