Senior Backend Engineer: 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

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