PHP Developer

Working as a WordPress/CRM Developer at Navtech, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain WordPress websites, including custom themes, plugins, and page layouts
• Ensure website performance, security, and responsiveness across devices
• Manage website updates, bug fixes, and ongoing maintenance
• Build and maintain lead capture forms and landing pages, ensuring smooth data flow into the CRM
• Own, configure, and maintain Navtech's CRM system — including custom fields, workflows, automations, and API level integrations
• Configure custom CRM dashboards, views, and automated workflows and alerts for leadership visibility
• Support sales/BD teams with deal stages, activity logs, pipeline records
• Ensure CRM data quality and hygiene through structured validation and clean-up processes
• Take up CRM development and automation-related tasks beyond standard configuration
• Onboard team members, create SOPs, provide training

Who Are We Looking For Exactly?

• Proven experience as a WordPress Developer, with strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP
• Experience building and customizing WordPress themes and plugins
• Working knowledge of any CRM platform, such as Salesforce, or HubSpot
• Experience working with APIs, webhooks, or automation platforms such as Zapier or Make
• Good understanding of CRM data structures and workflow automation
• Good debugging and troubleshooting skills across both website and CRM systems
• Strong communication skills to coordinate with sales, marketing, and leadership teams

Why Navtech?

• Yearly performance review and Appraisals.
• Competitive pay package with additional bonus and benefits.
• Work with US, UK and Europe based industry-renowned clients for exponential technical growth.
• Opportunities to work on multiple projects.
• Medical Insurance cover for self and immediate family.
• Work with a culturally diverse team from different geographies.

Job Title: Full Stack/ Frontend Developer

Location: Chennai, India

Duration: Full-Time

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Full Stack/ Frontend Developer to join our innovative team. If you are passionate about coding, problem-solving, and building intuitive user interfaces, we would love to hear from you! In this role, you’ll work closely with back-end developers and UX/UI designers to deliver exceptional web applications for the higher education sector.

Key Responsibilities

● Develop and maintain interactive, responsive, and user-friendly front-end applications using Java, JavaScript, and modern frameworks.

● Collaborate with back-end developers to integrate front-end functionality with back-end services.

● Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure user interfaces are visually appealing, functional, and consistent.

● Participate in code reviews and uphold high-quality coding standards. ● Troubleshoot and resolve front-end issues and optimize performance. ● Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in front-end development.

Required Skills & Experience

● 4+ years of experience in Java-based front-end development.

● Strong experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks. ● Hands-on experience with Spring, Hibernate, Thymeleaf, Velocity, jQuery, and Java.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and front-end integration practices.

● Experience in responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.

● Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

● Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment with strong communication skills. Preferred Skills

● Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, jQuery plugins, DataTables, etc.).

● Familiarity with version control systems like Git.

● Knowledge of Agile development methodologies.

● Prior experience in higher education technology or education-related software.

Note: Experience with Thymeleaf and Velocity is good to have. Tapestry can be ignored as it is legacy. 

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in professional Web Development
• Proven software development experience in Core PHP, Codeigniter, WordPress; Laravel is a plus.
• Must have 2+ yrs experience in VueJs.
• Experience in ReactJs, NodeJs is a plus.
• Excellent Software Design and Architecting capabilities
• Complete familiarity with client-side scripting and Angular JS, Ember JS , JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
• Complete familiarity and expertise in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3.
• Expertise in third party API integration - payment gateways, Storage, Streaming services, etc.
• Complete familiarity and experience working with JSON / XML and REST API structure
• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment technologies such as Bitbucket, Jenkins and Git
• AWS/Google Cloud Deployment is a must; Devops capability is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services.
• Sound Database experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL experience
• A sound knowledge of Object-Oriented (OOPS) Programming & Design Pattern.
• Agile and Iterative (TDD) development expertise.

We are seeking a very talented remote/onsite Senior Software Engineer, proficient in front-end and backend development. We prefer to rapidly develop with frequent releases and aim to provide amazing experiences for our end users.

Each engineer is treated as a true owner, with a high degree of ownership and autonomy. We are looking for a product minded, independent thinker -- not someone whose hand we will hold to make product decisions. We aim for a lean, fast-moving team that prefers to avoid meetings and focus 100% on driving impact.

Responsibilities:

• * Work with cutting-edge front-end and back-end technologies in designing, building, and maintaining performance, responsiveness, and delightful experiences for our customers.
• * Write high-quality front-end & back-end code, complete with automated unit and integration tests, as well as participate in code reviews.
• * Partner with product, marketing, and customer success to develop a highly interactive web application that fosters innovation.
• * Collaborate with other Software Engineers to evaluate and recommend new technologies, and help to continuously modernize and mature our front-end implementations and best practices.

Ideal Candidates Will Have:

• * Minimum of 4 years' experience in fast-paced, nimble teams building software at scale
• * Possesses deep understanding of JavaScript beyond libraries or frameworks (i.e. Core JS, not just jQuery or Angular).
• * A proven ability to deliver an amazing user experience.
• * Have detailed knowledge of responsive CSS, the box model, semantic markup, and HTML5.
• * An appreciation for good design, and the desire to translate visual ideas into working, beautiful code.
• * Experience in building scalable solutions with a high level of code quality through automated tests and good architecture.
• * Ability to solve complex data problems and think of best ways to present these to users.
• * Strong team player with excellent communication skills and high degree of ownership and drive.

Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We do not require prior knowledge of technologies in our stack, only a desire to learn them.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.