PHP Developer

Job Title: WordPress Developer

Company: Fortmindz

Location: Kolkata

About Fortmindz:

Fortmindz is a cutting-edge software development company that specializes in delivering innovative and intuitive web and mobile applications. We are seeking a talented WordPress Developer to join our team and help us build world-class WordPress websites and plugins.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and customize WordPress themes and plugins based on project requirements

- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code

- Troubleshoot and debug WordPress websites and plugins to optimize performance and user experience

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Stay up-to-date with new WordPress features, technologies, and industry best practices

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development process

- Ensure WordPress websites and plugins are responsive and perform well across different devices and browsers

- Build and maintain custom WordPress themes and plugins using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

- At least 2 years of experience as a WordPress Developer or in a similar role

- Strong knowledge of WordPress, including its core functionality, themes, and plugins

- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP

- Experience with Git and agile development methodologies

- Good understanding of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility

- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

- Strong communication and teamwork skills

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package

- Opportunities for career growth and professional development

- A dynamic and inclusive work environment

- Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools

If you are a talented WordPress Developer who is passionate about building high-quality WordPress websites and plugins, we would love to hear from you! Please submit your resume and a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience.

Fortmindz is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Job Description:

• Delivery of high quality, efficient code.
• Improving the overall quality of the applications and the speed of new feature delivery.
• Communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ability to understand stakeholder requirements and problems, and deliver high quality solutions.
• Able to work effectively as part of a team, sharing knowledge and experience.

Requirements:

• Required skills: PHP and its framework (Laravel), code versioning tools (GIT), MVC Framework, etc.
• At least 3 - 5 year of working experience in PHP or related fields is required for this position.
• Good in MySQL and database designing.
• Experience of working with REST API design and its implementation.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Ability to effectively communicate via written and spoken English.

What you will be doing

You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:

• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code to perfection with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Do a code review of your colleagues work.

You and our future-proof stack

• We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new.
• We use the latest stable version of PHP 7|8 because it allows us to write better code using features like strict type declarations, typed class properties and arrow functions.
• We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version.
• We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run the development environment with Homestead and custom scripts.
• We write and run tests with PHPUnit and http://cypress.io/">JavaScript End to End Testing Framework.
• We have a great set of tools to maintain the code quality and run on CI/CD (psalm (error level 4), rector, phpcs, php-cs-fixer, phpcpd etc.)
• We use Rector to maintain our code quality.
• We’re constantly refactoring our front-end code intending to reach front-end heaven:
• Laravel Blade template engine.
• PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.
• Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.
• Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.

We ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.

We care deeply about the Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: Git, GitHub, HTTP/2, Assets CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers, and much more.

About you

• You have expert knowledge of PHP.
• You have expert knowledge of Laravel.
• You have experience with test-driven development (TDD).
• You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.
• Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.
• You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.
• You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.
• You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
• You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable
• You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work. 
• You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
• You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
• You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
• You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.

• Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
• Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
• Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
• Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
• Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
• Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus

• Be able to work in cross-function teams
• Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
• Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
• Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
• Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
• Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions

Roles and Responsibilities
Responsibilities
1. Learning about our products and implementing minor features using PHP .
2. Ability to answer customer queries and provide them with satisfactory answers.
3. Do extensive QnA with customers to clarify issues.
4. Coordinate with senior engineers to have resolved bugs/issues fixed.
5. Take end to end responsibility to closing support tickets
6. Generating new ideas, insights, products improvements and documenting them.
7. After due experience start shipping new features
8. Maintain jovial relationship with clients

Requirement
PHP Experience: Must Have
Excellent Communication Skills.

Note:
Candidates having gap in their career with strong PHP experience can apply for this position.Graduate

Location-Jankpuri (Delhi)