Position: Senior Wordpress Developer for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 5y
Category: PHP
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

On behalf of the Ciklum Digital Engineering Team, we are looking for a Senior Wordpress Developer to join our Kyiv team on a full-time basis.

Ciklum is building a team to work on various projects whose primary goal is to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce the time and efforts required for various operations.

As a part of one of our projects, you will be working on the development of the Learning Management System.

Responsibilities
- Back End development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
- Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review
- Able to tackle some Front End tasks
- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
- Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.)
- Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements
- Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
- Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
- Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
- To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements
- Experience in software development for more than 5 years
- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)
- Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
- Code testing practices
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns
- Security patterns, Common attacks types (OWASP)
- Understanding of network interactions:
- protocols
- conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
- authentication and authorization flows
- standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
- Excellent knowledge and experience in PHP (more than 3 years)
- Good knowledge and experience in WordPress (more than 2 years)
- Good knowledge and experience in JavaScript (jQuery, Plan JS) and CSS Skills (SCSS) (more than 2 years)
- Practical commercial experience with:
- REST API development
- Web application frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel, etc.) (more than 2 years)
- Testing frameworks (e.g. PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat, Dusk) (more than 2 years)
- ORM (e.g. Doctrine, Eloquent) (more than 1 year)
- RDBMS (e.g MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL) (more than 2 years)
- Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
- Web Servers (e.g. NGINX, Apache)
- Version control systems (GIT)
- Integration with 3rd party solutions
- Docker
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
- Builders
- Experience with:
- Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
- Creation software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions
- Agile software processes and technologies
- Code Review process
- Refactoring process
- Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable
- Experience with the following Plugins: LearnDash, Oxygen, Advanced Custom Fields
- Certifications on:
- Symfony Framework
- Zend PHP
- Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure)
- Understanding of orchestration and containerization (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)
- Knowledge in Deployment patterns
- Practical commercial experience with:
- NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
- Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
- Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
- Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
- Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)

What's in it for you
- Career growth opportunities
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
- Professional skills development and training programs
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with a warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions