Wordpress Developer

Job Description – Full Stack Developer (React + Node.js)

Experience: 5–8 Years

Location: Pune

Work Mode: WFO

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer with strong hands-on expertise in React and Node.js to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate should have solid experience building scalable applications, working with production systems, and collaborating in high-performance tech environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using React and Node.js.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following OOP/FP and SOLID principles.
• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Deploy and manage applications in cloud environments (preferably GCP or AWS).
• Optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability in production systems.
• Utilize containerization tools like Docker for efficient development and deployment workflows.
• Integrate third-party services and APIs, including AI APIs and tools.
• Contribute to improving development processes, documentation, and best practices.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with React.js (frontend).
• Solid hands-on experience with Node.js (backend).
• Good understanding of relational databases: PostgreSQL / MySQL.
• Experience working in production environments and debugging live systems.
• Strong understanding of OOP or Functional Programming, and clean coding standards.
• Knowledge of Docker or other containerization tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Golang or Elixir.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Previous experience working with AI APIs or machine learning tools.

Responsibilities : 

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions. 
• Develop and maintain scalable software solutions with Ruby on Rails as the core technology stack.
• Develop strong analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle challenges in development. 
• Utilize Docker containers for efficient environment management and deployment.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency. 
• Implement and maintain database solutions in MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Test and ensure that the application works correctly across different browsers and devices. 
• Build and optimize user interfaces using React.js with a focus on performance and user experience.
• Integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Ensure robustness, performance, and security of the applications.
• Take full responsibility for project deliverables from conception to deployment.
• Design user-side and server-side architecture. 
• Maintain code integrity and organization, including performing code reviews and enhancing code quality.

Requirements :

• Demonstrable skills with Node.js and React.js, building and maintaining complex solutions.
• Experience with Docker and containerized environments.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Capacity to work effectively both as an individual contributor and within a collaborative team environment.
• Eagerness to take full ownership of deliverables, ensuring high-quality outputs.
• Great attention to detail Organizational skills. 

Qualifications : 

• Internship or 6 months experience as a full stack developer working with ruby on rails.
• Experience developing and deploying dynamic and responsive web applications.
• Strong communication skills, detail-oriented mindset, and a passion for delivering high-quality software. 
• A bright and passionate mind with relevant prior experience in web development (frontend, backend and database management) is welcome to apply. 
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment, adapting to varying demands with resilience.

Job Responsibilities

• Creating website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices.

• Developing websites that are responsive, cross-browser compatible.

• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Conducting WordPress training with the client.
• Estimating development timings for individual tasks and new site builds.

• Coordinating with web designers to match visual design intent.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT.
• Working with debugging tools.

• Monitoring, reviewing, and revising the performance of the live website.

Required Skills:

• Ability to build websites from scratch using WordPress.
• Proven experience in woo-commerce & supported plugins.
• Knowledge in creating website layout/user interface by using HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL.
• Good understanding of theme customization.
• Competent in creating and maintaining software documentation
• Good understanding of SEO principles and content management systems.
• Must have knowledge of database management, hosting website, email server configuration on both shared and VPS servers.

Responsibilities and Duties:

· Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices

· Website designing, building, or maintaining

· Expanding/enhancing the website once built.

· Responsive website design

Qualifications and Skills:

· 1+ Years of Work Experience.

· Proven experience as a WordPress Developer.

· Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

· Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

· Thorough functional knowledge and coding experience

· Should be computer savvy and have strong communication skills.

· Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them.

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

· Knowledge of E-commerce.

· Familiarity with at least one of the following programming languages: PHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript or Ruby on Rails.

· A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices.

Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include: 

Ship product, independently and/or as part of a small team 

Collaborate with other engineers to build new features 

Debugging using dev consoles, firebug, firecookie, or any of your favorite tools. 

Help troubleshoot production issues and resolve critical customer facing issues Provide top-notch support to our customers 

You Should Have: 

A strong body of prior front end work, including significant projects written in JavaScript. Mastery of JavaScript; expertise in most of the following technologies, and proficiency in all of them: jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX. 

Deep understanding of closures, prototypal inheritance, DOM manipulation, HTTP, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges. 

Strong Experience with NodeJS and Express JS. 

Hands-on with a code management system like GIT, SVN. 

Experience with NoSQL databases, preferably CouchDB or CouchBase. 

Good to have: Experience with ReactJS and Typescript. 

We indulge in all things that would excite you!!

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala, MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS) and the likes

• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting services, so you'll be flexible about travel

• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title

• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

What we look for in you?

• 3 + years Hands-on in development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes

• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess

• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)

• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems.

• Minimum 3+ years' experience as a software developer.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Angular.js, HTML 5, CSS.
• Familiarity with Git.
• Linux and/or OS X experience.
• Experience consuming API endpoints.
• Good to have - Kafka/queuing system
• Should be well-versed in using multiple Databases - SQL/NO SQL,
• Should have experience using in- memory Data Bases-Redis
• Experience with Unit-Testing.
• Experience building web applications with responsive design.
• Experience with Node.js and/or other server-side JavaScript technologies and tools.
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.
• ES6, React JS/JSX, Redux, Web pack, Immutable.js.
  
  

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!