WordPress & Shopify Developer

You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

WordPress Developer duties and responsibilities :-

- Designing and implementing new features and functionality

- Establishing and guiding the website's architecture

- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS

- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

- Conducting website performance tests.

- Troubleshooting content issues.

- Conducting WordPress training with the client.

- Monitoring the performance of the live website

- WordPress Developer requirements and qualifications :-

- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery

- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications

- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites

- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.

- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.
• Good communication skill in English.

Wordpress:

Should have hands-on experience in WordPress & HOOKS concepts.

Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins.

- Knowledge of Customization of themes & plugins

- Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level.

- Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.

- Theme Template integration.

- Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.

- Experience in developing E-Commerce websites

Shopify:

Should have hands-on experience in Shopify API & APP concepts.

Extensive knowledge and experience of building custom stores.

- Knowledge of Customization of themes & apps

- Experience working with Shopify API's

- Knowledge of existing inbuilt Shopify system.

- Theme Template integration.

- Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues

Responsibilities :

- Assist in requirements gathering and technical planning to design solutions that meet client needs

- Create clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code with an eye towards performance optimization

- Actively troubleshoot and support applications in production-- critical environments

- Implement and maintain Shopify development standards and best practices

- Tracks the work against plan and reports the status on agreed time without fail.

- Interface with the clients to understand and document their needs.

Primary Technical Skills:

Shopify and Shopify Plus

PHP

OOPS

JavaScript

XML

JSON

Basic Knowledge in React JS

Soft Skills

• Good oral and written communication.

Required Skills:

- 3 to 5 years of experience in working with Shopify and Shopify Plus stores

- Good  knowledge of frontend development and liquid programming language

- Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.

- Basic experience in writing Ruby scripts to run promotions

- Experience in integrating external API’s

- Experience in 3^rd party integrations like ERP- Netsuite, SAP, Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Epicor etc.
- Experience in Implementing Shopify Ajax API, Admin APIs and configuring third party apps

- Knowledge of building custom, private and embedded apps

- Experience working with the following technologies: JavaScript (JQuery), XML, JSON, SQL, PHP, CSS3

- Knowledge in other ecommerce platforms like Magento, woocommerce, BigCommerce will be preferred.

- Experience with OOP PHP (2+ years)

- Familiarity with GIT

- Demonstrated ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience levels

- Ability to work with minimal direction with a focus on customer satisfaction

- Good written and verbal communication skills

The ideal candidate will efficiently and quickly write PHP in a timely and scalable way in order to improve the code-base of the company's products in meaningful ways. This candidate will be able to test the code and make adjustments where necessary. They should also have experience in contributing to the whole software design lifecycle. Minimum Experience Required 5-7 Years. 

Primary requirement: 

• Wordpress Theme Development 
• Wordpress Plugin Development 
• JS, AJAX, HTML, CSS 

Skills Required: 

• Have thorough knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 
• Possess the ability in Angular js, React js 
• Top-notch programming skills, ability to produce quality code that is maintainable, efficient, reliable and secure. 
• Development of APIs as required. Rest or Soap API integration. 
• Strong knowledge of MVC is required 
• Must Know Framework like Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake Php,Yii 
• Have experience in MySQL, MariaDB databases. 
• Distributed version control and regular deployments. 
• Have Good Communication skills. 

Responsibilities: 

• Write clean, well-designed code 
• Troubleshoot and test core product software to ensure strong optimization 
• Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle 

Qualifications: 

• MSC degree in computer science or related field 
• Experience of 5-7 years in Wordpress development and Application Development 
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, tools and PHP skills 

Things you’ll do: 

• Deliver stable and scalable solutions in PHP, HTML, and JavaScript 
• Update existing components to support changing needs. 
• Improve the internal team culture of high-quality software development. 
• Cooperate with team members on maintaining existing solutions beyond means of Code development. 
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance. 
• Provide Tech Support to client 

What we offer: 

• Competitive Pay Package 
• 6 days working + Alternate Saturday Off 
• Regular increments 
• ESOP (Employee Stock Options) for exceptional candidates working with us for 5+ years 
• Work from home as per applicable limits set by management 
• Senior position to manage a team 
• Be a part of a super start-up ecosystem 

Employment type: Full-time

Location: Ahmedabad

Salary: as per company standards

Expereince : 2-4 yrs experience

• Experience in woocommerce customization
• Experience in theme and plugin customization
• Knowledge of Jquery & Javascript is an added advantage.
• Hands on experience with any E-commerce website will be an advantage