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

Requirements

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 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 teams
  
• 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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