Senior Backend Developer (WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel)

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Senior Backend Developer with strong WordPress experience to build and scale WordPress sites, including WooCommerce deployments, in a professional agency setting. The role emphasizes robust PHP/OOP practices, API integrations, and scalable enterprise-level deployment.

The ideal candidate communicates in fluent English, translates business requirements into technical solutions, and delivers performant, well-structured code with attention to budgeting and project

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience delivering WordPress websites, ideally larger-scale sites in an agency environment.
• WooCommerce implementation and configuration
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Integration development with APIs
• Project and task estimation and budgeting
• English language - fluent/professional proficiency
• Knowledge on how to write performant and optimised code
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical requirements
• Advanced integrations using APIs and/or GraphQL
• Enterprise-scale development and deployment

Tools

WordPress

WooCommerce

Laravel

GraphQL

APIs

OOP

Performance optimisation

Requirements analysis

Job description

Senior Backend Developer (WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel)

Job Openings Senior Backend Developer (WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel)

About the job Senior Backend Developer (WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel)

• 5 years of experience delivering WordPress websites, ideally larger-scale sites in an agency environment
• WooCommerce implementation and configuration
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Integration development with APIs
• Project and task estimation and budgeting
• English language - fluent/professional proficiency
• Knowledge on how to write performant and optimised code
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical requirements
• Advanced integrations using APIs and/or GraphQL
• Enterprise-scale development and deployment