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

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance

optimization and reliability.

 Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure

uninterrupted service.

 Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality

and consistency across the platform.

 Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate

relevant innovations into our platform.

 Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.

 Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development

efforts for new projects and features.

 Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and

improvement within the development team.

 Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime

and reliability of the ad-serving platform.

Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate PHP Developer to join our backend team. The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer eager to learn and grow his/her skills in the field.

• Actively Seek New Programming Knowledge.
• Build Products Using HTML/CSS/JS and Other Front-End Technologies using Frameworks.
• Working knowledge of frameworks like CakePHP, Laravel, etc. is a must.
• Must have knowledge of JS Frameworks like Node and React etc.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, MYSQL, and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of MYSQL, Core PHP, and PHP5 is a must.
• Knowledge of WordPress and CMS.
• AJAX, HTML, Payment Gateway.
• Excellent working knowledge of Web application development.
• Vast knowledge of PHP programming concepts.
• Experience in OOPs.
•  Advanced to expert coding skills.
• Strong understanding of functionality.
• Knowledgeable of Web Application Development Frameworks.
• Minimum 5 years of Experience

Job Responsibilities:

• Work independently as well as part of a team to develop new functional features
• Debug existing code and continually look for ways to optimize performance.
• Lead a team of developers, managing and mentoring their work while ensuring project deadlines and quality standards are maintained.
• Interact with service providers, customers and other departments to identify and resolve issues, and develop working relationships with key customers.

Expectations / Cultural Traits:

• Good communication and relationship-building skills.
• Self-driven and motivated.
• Open to work in flexible hours and shifts.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Willing to learn new technologies and tools

Java Developers (4-5 positions)

What qualities are we looking for?

• 3 – 8 years of experience in building web applications
• Excellent command over Data Structures & Algorithms
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Java)
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Technical Requirements:

• Working experience on JAVA, Spring Boot. (building web services)
• Working experience in building microservices and distributed systems.
• Working experience on using messaging queues RabbitMQ/Kafka is a plus.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery,  Angular 5+)
• Excellent knowledge and programming skills in data structures, algorithms.
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB)
• Proficiency with Git

FinCRM is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management Solution with enhanced Office Management capabilities. It helps companies and individuals manage their sales, marketing, and support efforts all from a single place. It is equipped to help businesses of all sizes build excellent customer relationships.

Technical Experience:

• 2+ years' experience in creating applications using a framework such as CodeIgniter, Zend, Laravel, Bootstrap.
• Proficient in PHP, MySQL/SQL, CSS, HTML, Apache server, Java script, AJAX, jQuery, JSON, XML, APIs, Version Control/Git.
• Linux server Handling - Min 3 years experience
• LAMP, PHP & MySQL, OOP's, CodeIgniter - 3 to 4 years experience
• Experience with Version Controlling Tools - SVN, Mantis & Git

Skills:

• Able to create Solution Architecture and design based on requirements.
• Should possess excellent problem-solving skills and be a team player.
• Can identify technology trends and advances that may support the success of the project.
• Should have the ability to learn new tasks outside the immediate range of skills.

Responsibilities:

• Brainstorm with the team to come up with ideas regarding the development requirements.
• Determine the feasibility of ideas and identify the best way and tech stack to move ahead.
• Build products and api's as per the requirements with optimized code.
• Develop products considering scalable architecture and security.
• Testing and maintenance of different server environments.
• Handle code deployment on testing and production environments.
• Maintain code versioning and administer the database properly.