Senior WordPress Developer responsible for building and maintaining custom themes and plugins, managing production WordPress environments, ensuring performance, security, and cross-device compatibility, converting UI designs into responsive sites, debugging issues, and collaborating with designers and backend teams using Git and cloud tooling.
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Min Experience: 8+ years
Location: Remote (India)
JobType: full-time
We are looking for a Senior WordPress Developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in custom WordPress development. The ideal candidate should be capable of independently developing and maintaining custom themes and plugins, managing production WordPress environments, and delivering responsive, secure, and high-performance websites.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes and plugins.
- Independently manage live/production WordPress environments.
- Take ownership of WordPress architecture, technical decisions, performance, and security.
- Convert UI designs, layouts, and wireframes into responsive WordPress websites.
- Work with PHP, WordPress Core, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and MySQL.
- Debug and resolve issues using browser developer tools such as Chrome Inspector.
- Ensure cross-browser and cross-device compatibility.
- Collaborate with designers, backend teams, and stakeholders to deliver projects on time.
- Use Git and standard version-control practices.
Required:
- 8+ years of hands-on WordPress development experience.
- Strong PHP and WordPress Core knowledge.
- Strong experience with custom WordPress themes and plugins.
- Experience independently managing production WordPress systems.
- Good knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and MySQL.
- Experience with Elementor and/or WPBakery.
- Exposure to AWS or cloud environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
Good to Have:
- Experience with healthcare, hospital, pharma, or clinical websites.
- Experience with WordPress multisite or multilingual implementations.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL.
- Experience with performance optimization, caching, and WordPress security.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
PHP, WordPress, Custom WordPress Theme & Plugin Development
Good-to-have skillsElementor, Javascript, WPBakery
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