Senior WordPress Developer

5 years

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Job Description

We are looking for a seasoned Senior WordPress Developer to lead development, maintenance, and optimization of our WordPress-based websites. This role involves building high-quality, scalable WordPress sites, overseeing complex customizations (themes, plugins), ensuring best practices around performance, security, and user experience — and collaborating cross-functionally with designers, marketers, and backend teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and maintain WordPress websites — including custom themes, plugins, and integrations.
  • Translate design and UI/UX requirements into clean, efficient, and maintainable PHP/HTML/CSS/JS code.
  • Implement and manage integrations with third-party services (e.g. payment gateways, CRM/email tools, analytics, APIs).
  • Optimize site performance, page load times, and ensure responsive, mobile-first design.
  • Ensure website security, manage updates (core, themes, plugins), backups, and monitor for vulnerabilities.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues with site functionality, compatibility, and cross-browser behaviour.
  • Collaborate with designers, content managers, and stakeholders to deliver new features, landing pages, or content-driven updates.
  • Mentor junior developers or freelancers, review code, and enforce coding standards & best practices.
  • Document workflows, site architecture, and provide recommendations for long-term scalability & maintainability.

Requirements / Skills

  • Strong experience (5+ years) working with WordPress — including custom theme and plugin development.
  • Solid command over PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (and optionally JS frameworks/libraries).
  • Good understanding of web standards, responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and performance optimization.
  • Familiarity with version control (e.g. Git), staging/production workflows, debugging, and deployment processes.
  • Experience integrating WordPress with external services (APIs, payment gateways, CRM/email tools, analytics, etc.).
  • Awareness of web security best practices, and ability to harden WordPress installations.
  • Good communication skills, ability to liaise with non-technical stakeholders (designers, marketers, content editors).
  • Problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, clean & maintainable code practices.
  • (Nice to have) Experience with server-side management, caching/CDN, custom post types, WP-CLI, headless/decoupled WordPress, multilingual sites, or modern frameworks (React, Vue, etc).

Preferred / Bonus

  • Experience working on high-traffic or content-heavy websites (e.g. e-commerce, membership sites, blogs).
  • Experience working with page-builders or block-based development (Gutenberg), as well as traditional theme-based workflows.
  • Understanding of SEO, web accessibility, and performance metrics.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹55,368.62 - ₹81,545.33 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Anna Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Language:

  • English (Required)

Location:

  • Anna Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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