PHP Developer

Job Description:

PHP Developer (candidates having experience with PHP, WordPress & WooCommerce should only apply and provide the details through the shared link)

Company: Wisetr Technology Pvt. Ltd. ("FunnelKit is one of the brands of Wisetr Technology Pvt. Ltd.") 

Website: www(dot)funnelkit(dot)com

Location: Delhi, Tilak Nagar (work from office/ on-site only)

Experience: 5+ years + AI mindset

Education: Engineering candidates should only apply with relevant experience with WordPress and WooCommerce plugin/ product development (not theme customization)

Working Days: 5 days - Monday – Friday

About FunnelKit

FunnelKit builds powerful no-code funnel and marketing automation products for WooCommerce businesses worldwide. Our mission is to help small businesses grow profitably by giving them the right tools to increase conversions and revenue—without unnecessary complexity.

We are a product-first, customer-driven team that values ownership, simplicity, kindness, and excellence.

Role Overview

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Can lead development of our WordPress & WooCommerce product suite as a senior engineer who thinks beyond code
• Enjoys solving real customer problems
• Has worked on production-level WordPress plugins or SaaS products
• Takes ownership of both development and troubleshooting

You'll drive architectural decisions, mentor team members, and shape products that impact thousands of businesses. We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with product thinking—understanding not just how to build features, but why they matter to customers.

You will work closely with Development, Product, QA, and Customer Success teams to build, improve, and support FunnelKit’s core products.

Key Responsibilities

1. Plugin Development & Product Feature Development

• Build and maintain WordPress plugins to extend site functionality and improve user experience
• Own architecture decisions for complex features across multiple products
• Work with the Product team to convert requirements into high-quality code
• Build custom solutions based on real customer use cases
• Ensure all features are properly tested and documented before release
• Mentor mid-level and junior developers through code reviews and pairing
• Lead initiatives that improve developer productivity and code quality
• Think creatively about technical challenges—finding innovative solutions
• Drive technical standards and best practices for the team

2. WooCommerce Integration & WordPress Hooks

• Develop custom solutions and features specifically for WooCommerce stores using WordPress hooks.
• Utilize deep knowledge of WordPress hooks (actions & filters) to extend core functionality and integrate with other plugins. 

3. Troubleshooting & Release Stability

• Monitor product behavior after updates and releases
• Debug complex cross-system issues and performance bottlenecks
• Ensure smooth upgrades and backward compatibility
• Perform root-cause analysis to prevent repeat issues
• Resolve issues related to plugin conflicts, performance, and compatibility with WordPress and WooCommerce.

4. Product Improvement & Analysis

• Design scalable solutions that work across our product ecosystem
• Analyze L2 support tickets to identify patterns and gaps
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to implement improvements and evaluate technical feasibility and trade-offs

5. Git & Code Management

• Manage code using Git (commits, merges, releases)
• Maintain clean, scalable, and secure codebases
• Follow WordPress and WooCommerce best practices
• Conduct regular code reviews

6. AI-Assisted Development

• Use Cursor AI for code assistance, security checks, and snippet creation
• Improve development speed while maintaining high code quality
• Work closely with the development team to ensure smooth integration of plugins with existing systems
• Document technical decisions and create knowledge-sharing resources

7. QA & Test Case Collaboration

• Create clear use cases for QA testing
• Work closely with QA to ensure all features and fixes are thoroughly tested
• Reduce post-release bugs through strong pre-release validation

8. Internal Support to Customer Success

• Assist Customer Success Engineers with technical guidance
• Help resolve complex L1 issues when required
• Ensure recurring problems are documented and addressed at the product level
• Handle and resolve L2 support tickets for FunnelKit Checkout, Cart, and Bump
• Debug complex WordPress, WooCommerce, and plugin-related issues
• Provide fast, stable, and scalable solutions
• Identify recurring issues and propose long-term product improvements
• Coordinate closely with Customer Success Engineers

9. CSS & Template Development

• Develop and maintain CSS and templates for FunnelKit products
• Ensure responsive, cross-browser compatible designs
• Maintain high UI and performance standards

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress development
• Strong experience with:
• WordPress Core & Plugin Development
• WooCommerce internals and its ecosystem (APIs & customizations)
• WordPress hooks (actions, filters, and custom hooks)
• PHP mastery (expert-level OOP, design patterns and SOLID principles)
• Database proficiency - Advanced MySQL skills, query optimization, custom table design
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills to resolve plugin related issues
• Security First - Expert in preventing SQL injection, XSS, CSRF; capability checks and input validation
• Experience working on product-based WordPress plugins or SaaS
• Strong understanding of orders, checkout flows, and extensibility points
• Proficient with Git version control and collaboration
• Performance Mindset: Experience optimizing slow queries, managing memory, and profiling
• Technical Leadership: Code review experience, mentoring ability, architecture decision-making
• Communication: Explains complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences
• Ability to work on-site from our Delhi office

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Payment gateway integration and debugging experience
• Background processing and job scheduling (Action Scheduler or similar)
• REST API design and development
• Multi-currency or internationalization experience
• Subscription/recurring billing systems knowledge
• Contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
• Experience building WooCommerce extensions
• Experience with checkout, cart, or conversion-focused products
• Familiarity with performance optimization and security best practices
• Experience using AI tools for development
• Candidates with hands-on experience in Agentic AI systems and working with Claude Code will be given preference.

Why This Role is Exciting

• Product Impact: Build features that directly impact revenue for thousands of businesses
• Cross-Product Thinking: Work across an ecosystem of products, not siloed features
• Innovation Encouraged: Find creative solutions to hard problems—we value ingenuity
• Real Leadership: Influence technical direction without organizational bureaucracy
• Modern Engineering: AI-enhanced workflows, continuous improvement, quality-first culture
• WordPress at Scale: Solve interesting challenges in one of the world's largest tech ecosystems

What Success Looks Like

First 3 Months:

• Lead your first major feature from design to deployment
• Establish yourself as a reliable code reviewer
• Identify and fix a significant performance or architectural issue

First 6 Months:

• Own a product area and drive its technical direction
• Mentor team members with measurable improvement in their skills
• Ship an innovative solution that becomes a best practice

First Year:

• Drive cross-product improvements that benefit the entire ecosystem
• Be the technical leader others consult for complex decisions
• Contribute to hiring and growing the engineering team

What We Value

• Product-minded engineering: Understanding business impact, not just technical elegance
• Ownership mentality: Taking responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks
• Continuous improvement: Always learning, always getting better
• Knowledge sharing: Writing docs, mentoring others, building team capability
• Creative problem-solving: Seeing opportunities others miss, finding better ways

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on globally used WordPress products
• Competitive senior-level compensation
• High-ownership, low-bureaucracy environment
• Collaborative, product-driven culture
• Competitive salary based on experience
• Long-term growth and learning opportunities
• Technical leadership growth opportunities

How to Apply

• Links to significant projects you've led (GitHub, WordPress.org, portfolio)
• Brief note on a technical challenge you solved creatively

NOTE: This is a full-time, on-site position based in Delhi. Remote or hybrid candidates will not be considered.

FunnelKit is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Provident Fund
• Paid time off

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Tilak Nagar, Delhi, Delhi: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Experience with Core PHP, WordPress & WooCommerce is a must.

Work Location: In person

Objective of the Role: 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Java to take a lead role in developing and delivering innovative solutions. This role demands a proactive approach to ownership, driving initiatives from concept to deployment, and ensuring high-quality outcomes that align with both technical and product goals. 

You Will: 

• Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications with a focus on high-volume, low- latency. 
• Work on managing Java APIs/microservices development teams. 
• Develop and release cycle modern Java-based web applications. 
• Create Spring Boot-based microservices templates for product engineering teams. 
• Develop full-stack solutions using Java, Spring, and databases like Postgres and MySǪL. 

You must have: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. 
• 6 to 8 years of experience in Java development, and at least 2-3 years of experience in Telecom domain.
• Experience in designing the HLD and LLD. 
• Proficiency in core Java, JPA, PostgreSǪL, Spring Boot, and microservices. 
• Experience using AI assistants for developing Java features such as REST APIs and exception handling, with demonstrated ability to make production-ready modifications and validate solutions through unit and integration testing. 
• Strong understanding of Java frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. 
• Hands-on experience with RESTful web services and API gateway. 
• Knowledge of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and analytical reasoning. 

• Design, develop and manage data on various open-source SQL databases
• End-to-end performance tuning of Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora against very large data sets
• Database cluster connectivity and security
• Conduct database training
• Software installation and configuration
• Database patching and upgrading
• Using monitoring and management tools
• Troubleshoot various issues with other dba’s/developers
• Point of Contact for Vendor escalation
• Point of Contact for professional service to Customers
• Cross-platform migration from Oracle to MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/Aurora
• Support the creation, maintenance, and implementation of procedures regarding how problems are identified, received, documented, distributed, and corrected
• Ensures project documentation is complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Manages day-to-day project and scope changes
• Communicate and coordinate database changes, backups, and downtime to users
• Identifies potential security issues and recommend strategies to ensure database security
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Proactively monitor systems for optimum performance and capacity constraints
• Establish standards and best practices for SQL
• Interact with and coach developers in SQL scripting
• Perform database backup and recovery
• Provides 24x7 support for enterprise database systems

• Must provide mentoring and training to other staff members
• Write procedural documentation including requirements for databases
• Develop and coordinate knowledge transfer
• Establishes enterprise-wide uniform infrastructure, including supporting defined departmental content processes and creating guidelines for content deployment
• Interacts with business units to gather, define, and organize the delivery of business solutions Data
• Modeling, design & implementation based on established standards
• Automate manual tasks

• Candidate with a college degree and relevant work experience
• 7+ years of hands-on DBA experience with Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL and supporting tools
• Strong experience with Linux is required, including command-line editors, scripting (shell, Python, Perl, etc.)
• Experience in database performance tuning and strong SQL tuning skills
• Experience in database and cross-platform upgrades required Experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and production support
• Must be familiar with RDBMS concepts, practices, and procedures
• Must have knowledge of network connectivity
• Extensive experience with Export/Import, Backup and Recovery
• Extensive experience with Database Replication Master/Slave, Master/Master (BDR)
• Extensive experience with MySQL (MariaDB, Percona) Galera cluster
• Experience with MaxScale
• Proficient in SQL Language
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, or similar Ticket Management Software
• Knowledge of SAN infrastructure including HP and NetApp
• Ability to work on projects at a time
• Knowledge of middle-tier application servers
• Strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Good knowledge of Data Modeling
• Knowledge of XML and JDBC

• Experience of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Oracle NoSQL, MongoDB) is a plus
• Certifications on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora

-Must have experience in core Php.

-Proficiency in Php and Php based MVC frameworks like laravel.

-Good knowledge of the OOPs concepts

-Development of Php based web application

-Development of Php based APIs

-Contribute to a backend web application with clean, portable, well-documented code

-Work closely with a team to ensure the successful front end

-Taking static HTML/CSS frontend code and integrating with custom Php website and web app

-On time delivery of the projects

-Able to work in a team as well as individually.

Job Type: Full-time

Roles and Responsibilities

• PHP and WordPress development, WordPress CMS Installation, theme customizations.
• Handle Team of developers
• Responsible for plugin development, theme integration.
• Responsible for handling a project independently.
• Developing requirements & planning documentation considering the WordPress framework.
• Customizing and publishing content using existing WordPress themes.
• Collaborate with the designing and programming team.
• Communicating with and managing multiple clients.
• Proactively review WordPress components, widgets, and plugins to keep all solutions at the cutting-edge and maintain security.
• Developing, maintaining and optimizing secure, reusable and scalable websites.
• Work closely with Project Managers and other members of the Development Team to develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Communicate to the Project Manager with efficiency and accuracy of any progress or delays Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide high value-of-service to the clients.

Ideal skills and experience required

• 3+ years experience in PHP and WordPress development, WordPress CMS Installation, theme customizations.
• Leadership quality to run the tech team on website on WordPress, UIs and technical efficiency towards improving and tracking the faults on daily basis and resolving abilities
• Projection towards campaigns from the technical (website) point of view
• Experience of at least 2 international projects.
• Ability to work in an Agile /SCRUM environment.
• Should have problem-solving, prioritizing tasks, and multi-tasking abilities
• Knowledge of consuming and creating Web Services is a plus.
• Good time-management skills.
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Should possess strong knowledge of SEO, Secure sites, WordPress, Web Design
• Good knowledge of WordPress development and life cycle (theme hierarchy, plugins, etc.
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development. Experience in front-end technologies like HTML5,CSS3,Bootstrap4,JavaScript,PHP.
• Basic Knowledge of Core PHP, MySQL Database.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.