Backend Developer (WordPress)

Travelopia is headquartered in the UK and is one of the world’s leading specialist travel groups providing customers with unique travel experiences. This includes adventure travel, safaris, private jet, and polar expeditions, tailor-made luxury holidays, yacht and riverboat charter holidays, educational and sporting-based school trips, corporate hospitality, and sporting event fan travel.

As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for liaising with the design team, setting up WordPress sites, building modules and customizing plugins, testing the performance of each site, and maintaining security and feature updates after the installation is complete. 

We are a team of multicultural technologists working out of Bangalore and London. We have fully embraced remote work and believe in a product-driven, iterative approach to development with regular rituals.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review Scope of Work and Change Orders for accuracy.
• Strong proficiency in software engineering principles, databases, and data modelling/design techniques; data interface protocols; caching/performance improvements; software design patterns and integration patterns.
• Responsible for staying on top of industry standards. 
• The developer should be responsible for the implementation of themes and plugins. 
• The goal is to create attractive and user-friendly websites according to client specifications. 
• Work includes coding, handling support requests, PHP unit testing and project documentation.

SKILLS / COMPETENCIES:

• 4+ years of total experience in WordPress Code, system integration, web application, or platform development.
• Demonstrated strong proficiency in WordPress Plugin Development and expertise in developing complex LAMP internet applications
• Experience integrating with Rest API and GraphQL
• Developing custom themes and plugins
• Migrating websites from other platforms to WordPress
• Integrating and setting up plugins like WPML, WP CLI, Gutenberg Block Development using React, WooCommerce, Membership, etc.
• Managing Caching using Redis / Memcached and Optimising page speed of WordPress sites 
• Focused on coding quality and high development standards
• Understanding of code version tools like Git, SSH, Terminal
• Add on advantage, if Contributed to WordPress or any Open Source project 
• Good to have experience working with Open Source, ElasticSearch / Apache Solr, Docker and PHP Frameworks (Laravel / Symfony)

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Ability to work and communicate clearly and efficiently with team members, with a strong English communication both written and spoken
• B.S Degree in Computer Science
• Work within a successful, dynamic, small and growing team where personal development is highly valued.