As a WordPress Developer, you will develop and maintain WordPress-based solutions, perform code reviews, optimize performance, and assist in project planning.
Company Description
You will join a team of WordPress specialists focused on developing turn-key solutions on the WordPress CMS. Our core team consists of T-shaped professionals who work on both creative landing pages and corporate websites along with purely technical assignments on WordPress plugins and WordPress-based application development.
You will be responsible for setting up WordPress, setting up plugins, integrating markup, maintaining the solution, updating and optimizing, and integrating third-party APIs.
Our Customers are mostly based in Europe and the USA, with web solutions in areas such as FinTech, E-commerce, hospitality, education, consulting, construction, and healthcare.
The variety of projects being developed at Sigma Software allows you to grow professionally on the ongoing basis, get involved in new career opportunities, and learn new Front-end (Vue.js, ReactJS, AngularJS) and PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony).
Job Description- Code, develop integration tests, debug, document, implement, and maintain portions of software
- Promote good design principles, such as code reuse, modularity, and extensibility
- Assist test engineers and support personnel in solving technical issues of software installation and its operation
- Perform code reviews for compliance with the best engineering practices, coding standards, and quality criteria set forth on the project
- Continuously participate in technical risk identification and analysis, immediately notify the project manager of new risks identified, and suggest a mitigation strategy
- Report status and progress according to the project and company requirements
- Contribute to the creation of technical specifications
- Participate in estimation and planning sessions
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with WordPress CMS (themes/plugins development/customization)
- Knowledge of the most popular WordPress plugins and practices (cache, security, E-commerce, etc.)
- Solid experience with MySQL (MariaDB)
- Solid experience with popular web server configurations (Apache, nginx)
- Good knowledge of Docker and Linux ecosystem
- Ability to find narrow places and fix them (profiling, increasing performance, analyzing)
- Experience with Git and GitFlow
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
- Upper-Intermediate level of spoken and written English
WOULD BE A PLUS
- Good Front-end development skills (HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js)
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming and SOLID principles
- Knowledge of Amazon Web Services
Top Skills
Amazon Web Services
Ci/Cd
CSS3
Docker
Git
HTML5
JavaScript
Jquery
MySQL
PHP
Vue
Wordpress
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