PHP Developer - Wordpress, Core PHP, Woocommerce

About theAsianparent :

theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women, mothers and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions and information in the form of content, community and physical products.

Headquartered in Singapore, theAsianparent has offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Nigeria. Our investors include Fosun, JD.com,Vertex Ventures and others.

Link: https://tickledmedia.com/ / https://sg.theasianparent.com/

We are looking for a PHP Developers with 4+ years of experience to join our team. This is unique opportunity for a driven and insightful engineer to join the leading growth-stage start up in the most meaningful segment of the economy(parents) in the core market of Singapore. This is a role where careers are made, if you are upto the challenge, and keen to work with world-class teams.

Job Specifications :

Required (Must Have) skills : Wordpress, Core PHP, OOPS Concept, MySQL, Github

Desired (Good to have) skills : Linux Command, Basic HTML5 & CSS3, JS/Jquery Ajax, Third-party APIs

JOB DESCRIPTION
Html, CSS, WordPress, Core PHP, javascript, MUST Know - Woocommerce, E-commerce background is an advantage

RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Designing and implementing new features and functionality 2. Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture 3. Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS 4. Keep up on the latest trends and best practices in web development

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
FRONTEND
1. Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery 2. Excellent knowledge of WooCommerce and WordPress
3. Strong understanding and experience with SASS
4. Experience with responsive design without dependence on frameworks

BACKEND
1. Strong experience with custom WordPress theme development, including accommodating full user editability, complex layouts, and plugins that require theme customization – we don’t work with prebuilt themes so it is important to have the ability to create complex setups from scratch
2. Experience creating custom themes for use with WooCommerce
3. Experience with creating custom WordPress plugins is a plus
4. Thorough understanding of custom post types and taxonomies
5. Strong understanding of PHP and Mysql back-end development
6. An understanding of programming security best practices
7. Familiarity with issues in web design & development and accessibility is a plus
8. Familiarity with using git for source control is a plus
9. Understanding of SEO is plus
10. Knowledge of RESTful APIs
11. Proficient in integrating payment gateway on the website and managing payment gateway API's