Job Description:
• Maintain, design, and develop custom WordPress functionality
• Build and maintain custom plugins using PHP
• Build custom WordPress Admin dashboards and reporting tools to track user behavior, training completion, and key platform metrics
• Extend WordPress using hooks, filters, actions, custom post types, taxonomies, and metadata
• Develop custom WooCommerce functionality and extensions
• Develop secure REST API endpoints and integrations
• Debug complex production issues across plugins, themes, and WordPress core
• Write clean, documented, and testable PHP code
• Understand, maintain and troubleshoot the existing WordPress codebase developed by the previous team, resolving issues and implementing enhancements as required.
• Maintain, design, and build integrations with: ActiveCampaign, Payment gateways including but not limited to Stripe, Paypal, Venmo, and Braintree, Third-party REST APIs, Plugins like WooCommerce, CartFlows, Gravity Forms, WP Fusion, Webhooks, Internal business systems
• Improve Core Web Vitals
• Optimise backend performance and database queries
• Reduce unnecessary plugin dependencies
• Optimise MySQL performance
• Configure caching layers
• Optimise asset loading and application performance
• Improve scalability under increased traffic
• Implement and maintain technical SEO best practices
• Manage SiteGround hosting environments
• Configure staging and production deployments
• Troubleshoot server and application issues
• Configure DNS, SSL, redirects, cron jobs, and caching
• Manage backups and disaster recovery processes
• Work with Linux-based hosting environments
• Improve application architecture and maintainability
• Refactor legacy functionality
• Develop reusable internal libraries and services
• Review technical implementations and identify improvements
• Document systems, integrations, and deployment processes
• Participate in technical planning and solution design
• Manage when plugins and license expire to ensure timely renewal
• Support and extend Elementor where required
• Build reusable custom Elementor widgets
• Maintain design consistency through reusable templates and the entire site
• Collaborate with designers on responsive implementations
• Ensure frontend changes follow performance best practices
• Diagnose and resolve production bugs and critical issues
• Monitor website health and application performance
• Maintain plugin and dependency updates
• Implement WordPress security best practices
• Continuously improve platform reliability, loading speed, SEO and AIO
• Audit and document the existing site architecture: theme structure, custom plugins, database schema/custom tables, CartFlows funnels, WooCommerce configuration, and the custom LMS codebase
Requirements:
• 4+ years of professional WordPress and PHP development experience
• Advanced WordPress plugin development
• Extensive experience with WordPress hooks, filters, and core APIs
• REST API development and integration
• WooCommerce development experience
• Strong MySQL and SQL optimisation skills
• JavaScript (ES6+) knowledge
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Git version control
• Linux server management experience
Benefits: