Team Lead - PHP & Wordpress

About the Role :

Our Client is looking for a Team Lead with deep expertise in WordPress plugin development, PHP, and MySQL to spearhead our product engineering efforts.

This role is perfect for someone who loves building high-impact WordPress solutions from the ground up and is passionate about leading technical teams.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of custom WordPress plugins that power our core products.

- Design and implement scalable backend systems using PHP (7.2+) and MySQL (5.7/8).

- Ensure performance, security, and extensibility of WordPress-based applications.

- Collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into robust plugin features.

- Optimize and refactor legacy WordPress codebases for stability and scalability.

- Oversee Linux server management, deployment workflows, and enforce security best practices.

- Guide the team through the full product lifecycle from planning and development to testing and release.

- Conduct code reviews, mentor developers, and drive best practices in plugin development.

Requirements :

Qualification & Experience :

- 8+ years of experience in PHP and MySQL, with a strong portfolio of WordPress plugin development.

- Proven experience building, maintaining, and scaling custom WordPress plugins (not just theme customization).

- In-depth knowledge of WordPress core functions, hooks, filters, REST API, and coding standards.

- Experience with WordPress performance tuning, security hardening, and plugin optimization.

- Familiar with Nginx, Apache, shell scripting, and AWS.

- Exposure to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, and modern JS frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React) is a plus.

- Comfortable with Git and collaborative development workflows.

- Proven leadership skills with experience managing development teams and projects