Software Engineer

Merkle

Pune, India
Custom wordpress architecture
Theme and plugin development
Headless cms implementations
Lead the WordPress development team, ensuring high-quality output and providing technical direction, code reviews, and mentorship

Job Summary

  • Lead the WordPress development team, ensuring high-quality output and providing technical direction, code reviews, and mentorship.
  • Translate complex business requirements into scalable WordPress/Headless solutions and enforce best practices in coding, documentation, performance, and security.
  • Drive continuous improvement in tooling, processes, and development standards for the team.

Matching Summary

Lead the WordPress development team, ensuring high-quality output and providing technical direction, code reviews, and mentorship.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • custom WordPress architecture
  • theme and plugin development
  • Headless CMS implementations
  • Next.js and React.js
  • PHP, WordPress Core, MySQL
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
  • performance optimization
  • WordPress security best practices

Nice-to-have

  • modern React development patterns
  • CI/CD, cloud hosting
  • WCAG accessibility guidelines
  • high-traffic performance tuning
  • enterprise WordPress deployments
  • Drupal exposure

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years web development experience
  • 5+ years dedicated to WordPress
  • Experience leading development teams
  • Experience with modern WordPress editors and builders
  • Experience with multisite, multilingual, enterprise implementations

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