WordPress Team Lead

As a WordPress Team Lead at our company in Ahmedabad, you will play a crucial role in guiding and mentoring our WordPress development team. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the delivery of WordPress websites, ensuring adherence to coding standards, project timelines, and performance expectations. This hands-on leadership position requires a balance of technical expertise, strategic direction, and effective people management. You will lead and manage a team of WordPress developers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and prioritizing tasks. Collaborating with designers, developers, and project managers, you will plan and deliver high-quality websites that meet client expectations. Monitoring progress, allocating tasks, and ensuring adherence to deadlines and quality standards will be key aspects of your role. Your expertise in custom WordPress theme and plugin development will be essential as you oversee the development of codebases that are modular, maintainable, and scalable. You will be responsible for reviewing code for performance, security, and scalability, ensuring alignment with best practices. Additionally, you will support the team in resolving complex bugs and performance issues across live and staging environments. Conducting regular one-on-one sessions, providing technical training, and mentoring team members for growth and capability building will be part of your daily routine. Collaborating with QA and deployment teams to streamline releases and ensure issue-free project delivery will be crucial to your success. You will also be responsible for integrating SEO best practices, accessibility, and responsive design standards into all projects. Proactively exploring and introducing AI tools or other innovations to improve development speed and quality will be encouraged. Providing technical documentation, performance reports, and client-ready updates when required will be part of your responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in WordPress development, with at least 3 years in a leadership or team lead role. Strong command over front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery is required. Experience with Elementor, ACF, Page Builder plugins, and WooCommerce is essential. Proficiency in PHP, MySQL, and RESTful APIs, along with excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, is necessary. Nice to have skills include familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD deployment practices, exposure to other CMS/eCommerce platforms like Shopify or BigCommerce, experience collaborating with international teams, and proficiency in using AI-assisted coding tools or low-code platforms. Strong organizational and project management skills, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, will be key to your success in this role.,