Website Engineering Lead

Daskalos; Amravati; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Daskalos in India seeks a Website Engineering Lead to build and maintain high‑performance WordPress sites. You’ll lead a small team to deliver themes, plugins, and reusable components with strong coding standards.

You will work with Product and Marketing to drive initiatives, review code, optimize Core Web Vitals, and ensure reliable releases via CI/CD pipelines and tested deployments.

Experience with Salesforce integrations and REST APIs is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of PHP WordPress development experience.
• Strong OOP knowledge and WordPress themes/plugins experience.
• Experience with WordPress APIs, REST APIs, and Composer.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with WordPress APIs or middleware.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, and reusable components.
• Review code to ensure quality, security, and performance.
• Deliver website releases with developers and coordinate deployments.
• Optimize Core Web Vitals and technical SEO.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and production releases.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing to deliver enhancements.

Skills

WordPress development

PHP OOP

JavaScript ES6

HTML5 CSS3

MySQL

Git CI/CD

APIs REST

Security & performance

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Composer

Salesforce APIs

Docker

Playwright/Cypress

Job description

Role Overview

We're looking for a Website Engineering Lead to build and maintain high-performance WordPress websites. You'll work closely with developers to deliver website enhancements, review code, maintain engineering standards, and ensure reliable releases. You'll also partner with the Product, and Marketing teams to deliver website initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, and reusable components
• Develop solutions using WordPress APIs, hooks, filters, custom post types, taxonomies, metadata, REST APIs, and third-party integrations
• Review code and ensure high standards for quality, security, performance, and maintainability
• Work with developers to plan, coordinate, and deliver website releases
• Optimize website performance, Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, analytics, Salesforce integrations, and third-party services
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and production releases
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve website reliability
• Collaborate with the Product, Design, Marketing, and developers to deliver website enhancements

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–7 years of professional experience developing WordPress applications using PHP (PHP 8+) with strong OOP knowledge
• Strong expertise in:
• Custom WordPress themes and plugins
• WordPress hooks, filters, APIs, REST APIs, and Composer
• Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Metadata
• JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and Vanilla JavaScript
• Experience integrating Salesforce with WordPress using APIs or middleware
• Experience optimizing website performance and Core Web Vitals
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and automated testing
• Good understanding of MySQL, Linux, caching, CDN, HTTP, website security, and API integrations
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with WordPress Multisite or enterprise WordPress projects
• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
• Experience with Docker and Composer