WP Gazelle Hiring for PHP and WordPress Technical Developer at Remote Full Time

We are looking for a talented PHP developer to help us in several areas. Please note some projects below to get a feel for the kind of skills we are looking for.

Project Example One

We work on the technical end of many WordPress websites. This requires knowledge of PHP, WordPress, Javascript, JQuery, APIs, etc. to increase site speed, site security, and custom plugins and functionality. You may be working on a sophisticated front-end design, making sure pages are mobile-friendly, building a plugin from scratch, adding advanced custom functionality, and providing recommendations to clients on how the solution will meet their business needs.

Required experience:

• Expert in WordPress site speed optimization
• WordPress plugin development

• Expert knowledge of WordPress in general
• WordPress front-end coding experience

Project Example Two

We are updating a Symfony website from 4.3.2 to 4.4.X, then to 5, then to 6 via composer. There are several customized symfony recipes that will also need to be updated. The site is currently using MsSQL via PDO, but we’d like to switch over to MySQL and there are many Stored Procedures that will have to get converted to MySQL.

Required experience:

• Symfony (Bonuses: experience with 4.3, 4.4, 5 and 6, experience with updates, experience updating symfony recipes)
• Basic composer knowledge (should go hand-in-hand with Symfony)
• Git – questions: Are you comfortable with understanding diffs? Have you used “git add –patch”? (after this question they should say something like “yes, it’s great for choosing which chinks of code to keep in a commit”)
• If you aren’t comfortable with Diffs, you will struggle with symfony recipes and will likely overwrite customized code.
• Basic comfort with command line (necessary for symfony and composer)
• Sql, especially stored procedures. Knowing MsSQL would be a bonus.

Project Sample Three:

We are migrating courses, lessons, quizzes, users, analytics, etc. from Moodle to LearnDash (a WordPress LMS plugin) via direct queries of the Moodle data. We are creating a WordPress REST API to provide reporting data from LearnDash via a mix of existing function calls/classes and custom-written direct database queries.

Required Experience:

• SQL, specifically MySQL with good knowledge of joins.
• OO PHP, namespaces and the use keyword
• WordPress plugin development experience -or- strong in php
• WordPress REST API experience -or- any REST experience and the ability to learn WordPress fast
• Experience with Moodle and LearnDash is a plus

Great things about our company:

• This job is 100% remote.
• Hours are flexible, but you should generally be available during working hours to interface with the team and clients.
• You’ll receive world-class training to help you in your job, as well as ongoing mentorship.
• You’ll be part of a fun, collaborative team.
• You’ll work on a variety of projects and be exposed to a lot of different areas of our company and other companies, giving you an excellent foundation for anything else you want to do in your career.
• Health Benefit options and 401k are available

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $40.00 – $55.00 per hour

Benefits:

Schedule:

Application Question(s):

• Are you comfortable with understanding diffs? Have you used “git add –patch”?
• Please explain the difference between a left-join and regular join.
• Please explain your understanding of OO PHP, namespaces and the use keyword

Experience:

• PHP: 4 years (Preferred)
• WordPress: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote