Senior WordPress Developer

Beyond Key; Indore District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond Key is seeking an experienced Senior WordPress Developer to lead end-to-end WordPress projects, including custom themes, plugins, and integrations. You will ensure site security, scalability, and performance while collaborating with design, QA, and client teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of WordPress development experience, strong PHP/MySQL skills, and a deep understanding of REST API, hooks, and templates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress development experience, preferably in client-facing environments.
• Strong expertise in WordPress, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Experience with custom theme/plugin development and WordPress architecture.
• Knowledge of WordPress REST API, hooks, actions, filters, and database structure.

Responsibilities

• Develop, customize, maintain, and enhance WordPress websites, themes, plugins, and templates.
• Manage WordPress core, themes, and plugin updates and resolve compatibility issues.
• Implement security best practices, backups, monitoring, and hardening.
• Optimize sites for speed, Core Web Vitals, caching, and performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and deliver reliable fixes on time.
• Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, CRMs, and analytics.

Skills

WordPress development

PHP

MySQL

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

jQuery

Responsive design

REST API

Custom post types

Git

Tools

Gravity Forms

Gutenberg

Elementor

ACF

Job description

About Beyond Key

We are a Microsoft Solution Partner and a Great Place to Work-certified company. "Happy Team Members, Happy Clients" is a principle we hold dear. We are an international IT consulting and software services firm committed to providing. Cutting-edge services and products that satisfy our clients' global needs. Our company was established in 2005, and since then we've expanded our team by including more than 350+ Talented skilled software professionals. Our clients come from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and India, and we create and design IT solutions for them. If you need any more details, you can get them at https://www.beyondkey.com/about. And https://www.beyondcloudtek.com/

About Beyond Key

We are a Microsoft Solution Partner and a Great Place to Work-certified company. "Happy Team Members, Happy Clients" is a principle we hold dear. We are an international IT consulting and software services firm committed to providing. Cutting-edge services and products that satisfy our clients' global needs. Our company was established in 2005, and since then we've expanded our team by including more than 350+ Talented skilled software professionals. Our clients come from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and India, and we create and design IT solutions for them. If you need any more details, you can get them at https://www.beyondkey.com/about. And https://www.beyondcloudtek.com/

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior WordPress Developer with strong expertise in WordPress development, website maintenance, security, performance optimization, and custom solution delivery. The ideal candidate should be able to manage end-to-end WordPress development work, troubleshoot complex issues, optimize website health, and contribute to client-facing technical discussions and pre-sales activities when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, customize, maintain, and enhance WordPress websites, themes, plugins, templates, and custom functionality.
• Manage WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates while resolving compatibility, configuration, and deployment issues.
• Implement security best practices, including hardening, backups, vulnerability fixes, monitoring, access control, and malware prevention.
• Optimize websites for speed, scalability, Core Web Vitals, caching, database efficiency, image optimization, and front-end performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues, debug code, identify root causes, and deliver reliable fixes within agreed timelines.
• Build and integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, CRMs, marketing tools, analytics platforms, and other business systems.
• Collaborate with designers, project managers, QA teams, content teams, and stakeholders to deliver stable and user-friendly solutions.
• Support client discussions, requirement analysis, technical estimations, solution recommendations, proposals, and pre-sales responses.
• Follow secure coding standards, version control workflows, documentation practices, staging processes, and production deployment best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress development experience, preferably in client-facing, agency, or product-based environments.
• Strong expertise in WordPress, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and responsive web development.
• Proven experience in custom theme development, plugin customization, custom plugin development, template creation, and WordPress architecture.
• Deep understanding of WordPress hooks, actions, filters, REST API, custom post types, taxonomies, shortcodes, widgets, and database structure.
• Strong experience in WordPress maintenance, troubleshooting, debugging, performance tuning, security hardening, and production support.
• Experience with Git, staging environments, release management, deployment workflows, and code review practices.
• Good understanding of hosting environments, DNS, SSL, CDN, caching, backups, firewalls, and basic server-side troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, communication skills, ownership mindset, and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Gravityforms, Gutenberg, Elementor, Advanced Custom Fields, or similar WordPress tools.
• Exposure to SEO best practices, analytics setup, accessibility basics, and conversionfocused website improvements.
• Experience working on high-traffic websites, enterprise WordPress websites, migration projects, or multisite setups.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, cloud hosting, Linux basics, automation tools, or managed WordPress hosting platforms.

Key Attributes

• Ability to independently own tasks from requirement understanding to delivery and postrelease support.
• Strong focus on website security, performance, maintainability, and long-term technical health.
• Clear communication with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams, including the ability to explain technical decisions simply.
• Structured approach to debugging, documentation, prioritization, and delivery under timelines

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