We are searching for an experienced, highly technical and hands-on Backend Developer to join our Marketing Team. In this role, you’ll be involved in the development projects across predominantly WordPress, LAMP Stack, JSON and other related technologies.In addition to having a proven technical background, you must also have proven management capability and a track record in the leadership of WordPress projects, themes, plug-ins, software development, and delivery of projects within a WordPress and software development environment.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Applicable software coding conventions


• Source/Configuration management procedures


• Conducting website performance tests and fixes


• Experience designing and developing responsive WordPress websites


• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration


• Have sound knowledge in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, XML Parsing, JQuery


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


• Have hands-on experience on WordPress and Custom Theme & Plugin development


• Work to resolve any items/bugs/changes assigned by the Quality Assurance Team


• Write a unit-test code and perform unit-tests on the developed software


• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial}}·


• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.

Qualifications

Education level

Bachelor’s degree in any software development related disciplines

Experience

Minimum Experience – 2-3 years of professional experience as Backend developer or WordPress developer.

Specific skills

• WordPress, Javascript, JSON, XML Parsing


• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging


• PHP frameworks and Git

Some knowledge of Linux commands.