Senior Software Engineer, Wordpress (Maternity Cover) - Freelancer

ITP Media Group reaches an audience of more than 104.6 million people across the Middle East and beyond through its leading websites, portals, social media platforms, events, conferences, award ceremonies, magazines, books and social media influencers agency.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced work environment, and we currently have an opportunity for Senior Software Engineer to make an immediate impact on our team. First and foremost, we are looking for someone who is positive, supportive, self-starting, and is ready for that next big leap in their career!

Requirements

- Comfortable with both object oriented and procedural programming methodologies.

- Looking for Long Term employment with a fast growing internet company

- 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.

PHP 5 & 7

- 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 php.ini on a variety of platforms

- Capable of configuring and utilizing xdebug in your programming workflow

- Capable of writing code that is compliant with PSR2 Standards

Wordpress

- 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 team’s 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

Other experience includes:

- 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, Webpack, React/Angular/Vue, Bootstrap/Reactive Design

- Tooling – Version Control (git)

Benefits

Being an ITP employee is an opportunity to be part of the largest content creation house in the region and provides the luxury of working with global brands and experienced industry leaders. To ensure we invest in the development of our team, employees are given access to a variety of learning resources and exciting career development opportunities.