Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

Introduction 

At NIIT, we’re transforming the way the world learns, for the better. That’s why the world’s best run learning functions across 30 countries trust us with their learning and talent. Since 1981, we have helped leading companies transform their learning ecosystems while increasing the business value of learning. Our comprehensive, high impact managed learning solutions weave together the best of learning theory, technology, operations, and services to enable a thriving workforce

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NIIT is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This is for 1 year contract role with scope of extension or conversion based on performance or project requirement.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive PHP & Wordpress developer with minimum 3 years of experience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites.
• Develop custom WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
• Customize existing themes, plugins, and WordPress functionality as per business requirements.
• Write clean, reusable, optimized, and secure PHP, Reactjs code.
• Work extensively with WordPress hooks, filters, custom post types, taxonomies, and APIs.
• Develop and integrate REST APIs and third-party APIs.
• Work with MySQL databases, including database design, queries, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Develop responsive user interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Perform website debugging, testing, maintenance, and performance optimization.
• Troubleshoot WordPress, PHP, plugin, theme, database, and server-related issues.
• Optimize websites for speed, security, SEO, and scalability.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related field. 

Experience

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in PHP, Wordpress & Reactjs.