Senior PHP Developer (WordPress)

We're a digital agency based in Australia and we're looking looking for a talented, process-oriented expert PHP developer with strong WordPress experience to strengthen our team and build on our technical foundation.

We have a variety of projects on the go, which includes new and existing projects, and you will be involved in the full development life-cycle: from the idea to the launch of the product.

The expert developer understands the business outcomes customers expect and works to deliver the product and customer requests on time and within budget while actively participating in the projects production cycle.

Key Duties & Responsibilities
* Work together with our team to build and maintain custom websites, membership sites, e-commerce and e-learning sites.
* Contribute by building new features, plugins, fixing issues and constantly improving our products.
* Assist the customer support team in resolving customer issues in relation to the product.
* Troubleshoot customer issues, and release new patches.
* Lead design and code reviews and enforce coding standards
* Closely oversee the performance of critical tasks such as live site migrations, live site maintenance, emergency fixes and other related tasks.

Required Skills & Experience
* Post Secondary Education, preferably in a technical field
* 5+ years PHP
* 3+ years of WordPress Experience
* Proficiency with the WordPress Coding Standards, approaches and common APIs.
* A good understanding of REST best practices
* Advanced SQL knowledge creating, maintaining and improving performance
* Server management experience with tools and processes such as cPanel, PHPMyAdmin, DNS, Cron Jobs, and bash scripting
* Experience with Git and other version control systems
* Proficiency in HTML/CSS. Experience with modern web standards required (semantic markup, HTML5, mobile web)
* JavaScript Development, JavaScript Libraries
* Results / Quality / Process oriented
* Can effectively translate business requirements into features & functional outputs
* A can-do attitude
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Skills
* Experience working with remote teams is a big plus. Our team is mostly distributed with team members in over 10 countries.
* Experience building on BuddyBoss Platform, BuddyPress and/or bbPress
* Experience building on WooCommerce, LearnDash or Memberium