Position: Senior WordPress Developer
Company: SPsoft
Category: PHP
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Client and project description**

Our client, a Hong Kong based company that owns various web portals and online shops, looking for a senior PHP developer with strong programming skills and extensive experience in creating, deploying and maintaining well-developed, extremely fast WordPress web projects.

For example, one of the new projects is to develop a portal – searchable wallpaper database with content uploaded by users and scraped from the internet.
	
**Required skills and experience**

5+ years of successful commercial experience;
Strong knowledge of PHP/ WordPress. Ability to write high-performance, reusable code;
Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap;
Experience in creating new themes, custom category tree, etc.
Understand how to control memory usage in WordPress;
Experience in user-generated content in WordPress;
Expert-level knowledge of responsive web design;
Familiarity with SEO best practices;
Knowledge in GraphQL, AWS, Docker is a plus;
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills;
Ability to work autonomously;
A self-starter with minimal supervision


**Duties and responsibilities**

Develop and support new and existing company web projects;
Maintain and troubleshoot existing web projects;
Optimize performance for both server-side and client-side;
Fine-tune web vitals (LCP, FCP, CLS);
Control load ads by using Intersection Observer API;
Design the layout and optimization of responsive HTML/CSS layouts;
Direct communication with the team in English;
Attention to detail and desire to improve the websites;