Full Time Ahmedabad 5 years

A live client website needs someone who treats its ongoing health as a full-time responsibility, not a background task squeezed between projects. This role exists to own that responsibility: managing a portfolio of live WordPress sites, keeping them healthy, performant, and secure, while also taking on ad hoc development and project-based work as it comes up.

The majority of the day-to-day work here is maintenance-focused — updates, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization — but the role also calls for real backend development skill: custom theme work, plugin customization, and PHP-based solutions when a site needs more than routine upkeep.

This role is for someone who enjoys:

- Owning the ongoing health of live sites, not just shipping and moving on
- Diagnosing and fixing backend issues quickly and cleanly
- Balancing steady maintenance work with occasional custom development
- Working independently across multiple concurrent client sites

If you’re someone who takes pride in a portfolio of sites that just quietly work, and who’s equally comfortable writing custom PHP when needed, this role gives you both halves of that.

What you’ll really be doing

1. WordPress Site Maintenance

- Own the ongoing health of a portfolio of live client websites
- Perform routine core, plugin, and theme updates across all managed sites
- Monitor uptime, manage environments, and proactively identify issues before they escalate

2. Bug Fixing & Troubleshooting

- Diagnose and resolve backend issues, plugin conflicts, PHP errors, and performance bottlenecks
- Work across staging and production environments with minimal turnaround time
- Provide clear documentation of issues identified and resolutions applied

3. Security & Performance Optimization

- Implement and enforce security best practices across all client sites
- Conduct performance audits and optimize load times
- Apply caching strategies and database optimization techniques as required

4.



Custom Theme & Plugin Development

- Build and customize WordPress themes and plugins using PHP, hooks, filters, and actions
- Write clean, well-documented, and standards-compliant code for both new builds and existing sites
- Implement customizations based on requirements received from PMs or delivery leads

5. Third-Party Integrations

- Integrate REST APIs, payment gateways, CRMs, and third-party services into WordPress environments
- Troubleshoot and maintain existing integrations as part of ongoing site management

6. WooCommerce Support

- Support WooCommerce-based client sites including product configuration, checkout customization, and order management troubleshooting
- Manage plugin compatibility and flag issues proactively

7. Documentation & Task Management

- Maintain clear documentation for all maintenance activities, custom code, and site-specific configurations
- Track tasks and progress in the team’s project management tool (Orbit)

8. AI & Development Assistance

- Utilize AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate development, improve debugging efficiency, and support documentation
- Explore productivity tools to enhance coding efficiency and workflow management

Who will thrive in this role

- You treat maintenance as real engineering work, not lesser work
- You can diagnose a backend issue quickly and explain the fix clearly
- You’re comfortable owning multiple client sites at once without losing track of any of them
- You document as you go, so nothing depends on memory




- You move fluidly between routine upkeep and custom development when a site needs it

Qualifications & Skills

Experience

- 5 years of hands-on experience in WordPress backend development

Must Have Skills

- Solid command of PHP and WordPress core — hooks, filters, actions, and custom post types
- Proven experience in custom theme and plugin development
- Experience managing live WordPress sites including updates, security, and performance monitoring
- Solid understanding of MySQL and database management
- Knowledge of REST API integration within WordPress environments
- Proficiency with Git version control and structured deployment workflows
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/jQuery for frontend implementation support
- Familiarity with WooCommerce and page builders such as Elementor
- Knowledge of hosting environments, staging setups, and server configurations
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple sites and tasks simultaneously

Tools & Platforms

- WordPress, WooCommerce, Elementor
- Git, staging/production environments
- Orbit (task tracking)
- AI-assisted tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar)

Nice to Have

- Experience managing a portfolio of maintenance retainer sites in an agency environment
- Familiarity with WordPress multisite configuration and management
- Exposure to caching tools such as WP Rocket, or similar
- Understanding of SEO fundamentals and technical SEO best practices
- Comfort working across multiple concurrent client projects with shifting priorities

What this role offers

- Ownership of a live portfolio of client sites, with real accountability for their health
- A mix of steady maintenance work and hands-on custom development
- Exposure to a wide range of WordPress and WooCommerce environments
- A structured, process-driven role with room to grow into broader development responsibility

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Ahmedabad

Job Experience: 5 years

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