Senior Wordpress Developer for Ciklum Digital Offline

On behalf of the Ciklum Digital Engineering Team, we are looking for a Senior Wordpress Developer to join our Kyiv team on a full-time basis.

Ciklum is building a team to work on various projects whose primary goal is to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce the time and efforts required for various operations.

As a part of one of our projects, you will be working on the development of the Learning Management System.

Responsibilities

- Back End development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)

- Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review

- Able to tackle some Front End tasks

- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution

- Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.)

- Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements

- Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment

- Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders

- Delivering the product roadmap and plannings

- To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

- Experience in software development for more than 5 years

- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:

- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)

- Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)

- Code testing practices

- Algorithms

- Data structures

- Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns

- Security patterns, Common attacks types (OWASP)

- Understanding of network interactions:

- protocols

- conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)

- authentication and authorization flows

- standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)

- Excellent knowledge and experience in PHP (more than 3 years)

- Good knowledge and experience in WordPress (more than 2 years)

- Good knowledge and experience in JavaScript (jQuery, Plan JS) and CSS Skills (SCSS) (more than 2 years)

- Practical commercial experience with:

- REST API development

- Web application frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel, etc.) (more than 2 years)

- Testing frameworks (e.g. PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat, Dusk) (more than 2 years)

- ORM (e.g. Doctrine, Eloquent) (more than 1 year)

- RDBMS (e.g MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL) (more than 2 years)

- Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)

- Web Servers (e.g. NGINX, Apache)

- Version control systems (GIT)

- Integration with 3rd party solutions

- Docker

- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)

- Builders

- Experience with:

- Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications

- Creation software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions

- Agile software processes and technologies

- Code Review process

- Refactoring process

- Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable

- Experience with the following Plugins: LearnDash, Oxygen, Advanced Custom Fields

- Certifications on:

- Symfony Framework

- Zend PHP

- Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure)

- Understanding of orchestration and containerization (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)

- Knowledge in Deployment patterns

- Practical commercial experience with:

- NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)

- Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)

- Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

- Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)

- Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)

- Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)

What's in it for you

- Career growth opportunities

- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services

- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment

- Professional skills development and training programs

- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities

- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with a warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions