PHP and Laravel Developer

Job Title: PHP Developer

Experience: 26+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Chennai / Hybrid

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced PHP and WordPress Developer with strong hands-on experience in WordPress development, PHP, custom plugin/theme development, REST APIs, database management, and website performance optimization.

The ideal candidate should be capable of developing and maintaining customized WordPress solutions, integrating third-party APIs, troubleshooting performance and security issues, and working with modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel.

Experience with WooCommerce, membership platforms, LMS, WordPress multisite, AWS, Git, CI/CD, and Laravel will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites and web applications using PHP.

Build custom WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.

Customize existing WordPress themes and plugins based on business requirements.

Develop and extend WordPress functionality using actions, filters, hooks, shortcodes, custom post types, and taxonomies.

Work with the WordPress REST API to build and consume APIs.

Integrate WordPress with third-party systems and external APIs.

Develop and maintain WooCommerce functionality, customizations, and integrations.

Work on membership websites, LMS platforms, and WordPress multisite environments when required.

Develop secure and scalable backend functionality using PHP and MySQL.

Optimize WordPress websites for performance, scalability, and reliability.

Diagnose and resolve slow-loading websites, database issues, plugin conflicts, PHP errors, and server-side issues.

Identify and resolve WordPress security vulnerabilities and handle compromised websites when required.

Implement secure coding practices and protect sensitive credentials, API keys, and user data.

Work with caching, CDN, database optimization, image optimization, and other website performance techniques.

Manage code using Git/GitHub and follow proper branching and code review practices.

Support deployment and maintenance using Linux, Apache/Nginx, AWS, and CI/CD environments.

Troubleshoot production issues and provide root-cause analysis and permanent solutions.

Collaborate with designers, frontend developers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.

Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Required Skills:

WordPress

Strong hands-on experience with WordPress development

Custom plugin development from scratch

Custom theme development from scratch

Strong understanding of:

WordPress Hooks

Actions & Filters

Custom Post Types

Taxonomies

Shortcodes

WordPress Template Hierarchy

WordPress database structure

User roles and capabilities

Experience with WordPress REST API

WordPress troubleshooting and debugging

WordPress security and hardening

WordPress performance optimization

PHP

Strong proficiency in PHP

Object-Oriented Programming

MVC concepts

Clean and maintainable coding practices

Experience with PHP frameworks, preferably Laravel

Good understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Database

Strong knowledge of MySQL

Database design and optimization

SQL query optimization

Troubleshooting database performance issues

API & Integrations

REST API development and integration

Third-party API integrations

JSON/XML

Authentication mechanisms

Payment gateway/API integration experience is an advantage

Version Control & Deployment

Git / GitHub

CI/CD

Linux

Apache / Nginx

AWS experience is an advantage

Good to Have

WooCommerce development experience

Membership website development

LMS platform development

WordPress Multisite

Laravel experience

CodeIgniter experience

Redis

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

PHPUnit / unit testing

Experience with Stripe, PayPal, WhatsApp API, Telegram API, or similar integrations

Experience working with SaaS, ERP, CRM, or other enterprise applications

Required Experience:

5+ years of professional PHP development

Strong hands-on experience with WordPress

Proven experience developing custom WordPress plugins and themes

Experience building and integrating REST APIs

Strong MySQL and backend development knowledge

Experience troubleshooting WordPress performance and security issues

working: onsite - in person.

Work Location: In person