Senior Software Developer - PHP WordPress

ITP Media Group

Senior Software Developer - PHP WordPress to make an immediate impact on our team. Foremost, we are looking for someone who is positive, supportive, self-starting, and is ready for that next big leap in their career!

Additional Advantage to have skills - Gutenberg , Newspack Theme

• Comfortable with both object oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
  

• Modifying existing code with new features available in current and future
  

• deployments of PHP/MySQL
  

• Efficiently handles tasks in a reasonable amount of time
  

• Creative mind to develop innovative and unique solutions to complex problems on
  

• high traffic websites
  

• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON.
  

• Understanding of unit and functional testing best practices.
  

• Know the history of PHP versioning, especially the migration path from 5 to 7
  

• Know the differences between PHP CLI, PHP FPM and PHP NGINX
  

• Capable of configuring a stable PHP application using php.ini on a variety of platforms
  

• Capable of configuring and utilising debug in your programming workflow
  

• Capable of writing code that is compliant with PSR2 Standards
  

Wordpress - Wordpress development is mandatory

• Advise and consult on WordPress development best practices, including coding
  

• standards, security, and performance.
  

• Guide the team on architectural planning and decisions.
  

• Providing code review and testing according to best practices.
  

• Assist with theme and plugin development.
  

• Design, develop, test, and refine internal tools to facilitate complex migrations of
  

• content from non-WordPress sites into WordPress sites and that support the team’s
  

• work.
  

• Participate in team-wide strategy and planning conversations.
  

• Expert knowledge of WordPress development best practices, especially security and
  

• performance.
  

• Experience with developing and supporting high-profile, high-traffic WordPress websites
  

• Familiarity with Advanced JavaScript and CSS.
  

• ReactJs
  

MySQL

• Can work directly with the MySQL data layer using either CLI or GUI tooling
  

• Can import / export data sets
  

• You should be able to setup indexes and foreign key constraints
  

• Understand relational data setup and performance bottlenecks.
  

• Dev Ops – AWS, Linux/Bash, Apache2, Nginx, Docker/Vagrant/Virtual Servers
  

• PHP Core – PHP 5, PHP 7, MySQL
  

• PHP Frameworks – Laravel, Symfony
  

• PHP Tooling – Xdebug, Composer, PHP-CS, PSR2 Coding Standards
  

• Front End – NPM/Yarn, Web-pack, React/Angular/Vue, Bootstrap/Reactive Design
  

• Tooling – Version Control (git)
  

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