Woocommerce App Developer

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

• min. 1-2 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

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

work on multiple projects with Product Development team

Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Follow industry best practices

Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary Skills And Qualifications

Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks ( Magento 1/2, Wordpress, YII, Laravel, Prestashop)

Understanding of MVC design patterns

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3

Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools (like GIT) and of developing web services

Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc) (OPTIONAL)

Intellectual Skills:

• Excellent communication skills and up-to-the-mark language proficiency.
• Sharp listening, analytical, synthesizing and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to remain professional, confident and patient at all times.
• Quick learner and effective coordinator. 

Technical Competency: 

• Significant PHP knowledge, including experience building/customizing object-oriented web-application in PHP.
• Past working exposure with Zend Framework, Cake PHP, Laravel, Symfony OR any other MVC focused PHP web application framework that consists set of reusable PHP components/libraries.
• Good experience interacting with MySQL database systems through an abstraction layer in addition to the ability to write raw SQL statements.
• Basic knowledge with client-side scripting and familiarity with JavaScript libraries and frontend development approaches.

Key Responsibility Areas: 

• Codebase development & various frontend/backend feature enhancements for applications
• Managing development processes, version control, build/deployment release planner and other technical documentation/working notes
• Prioritize and proactively manage the work-task/tickets that come through any queue or roadblocks
• Proactively communicate issues or delays to the leads
• Understand and effectively communicate various status updates, progress and decisions with clienteles’ team
• Ongoing reporting on project activities and ensuring timely completion of projects/assignments

• Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
• Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
• Very good experience with PHP programming language
• Hands on experience working on Laravel. Experience with any other framework would be nice to have
• Troubleshooting skills to reproduce & resolve issues in production systems
• Experience working with git & also following following git workflow
• Experience with deployment on server would be nice to have
• Working experience with AWS services like s3, lama, cognito, would be added advantage