We’re Hiring: Senior WordPress Developer

Company: Scholarship Wallah

Location: Remote / Hybrid

Job Type: Full time / Contract

About Scholarship Wallah

At Scholarship Wallah, our mission is to make quality education accessible to every student by connecting them with life-changing scholarship opportunities across India and globally. We are building a seamless, high-traffic platform to help millions of students discover, track, and apply for scholarships effortlessly.

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled, performance-focused WordPress Developer to take ownership of our core web platform. In this role, you will build, customize, and optimize dynamic features, maintain ultra-fast page load speeds, ensure ironclad security, and craft an exceptional user experience for thousands of daily visitors.

Key Responsibilities
- Custom Development: Develop custom WordPress themes, plugins, and custom post types (CPTs) tailored to scholarship listings, filtering systems, and user dashboards.
- Performance Optimization: Optimize site speed, database queries,



and caching mechanisms to handle high concurrent traffic seamlessly.
- Database & Filtering Architecture: Design and refine structured taxonomies, custom fields (ACF/JetEngine), and intuitive multi-attribute filtering (e.g., search by degree, location, deadline, or eligibility).
- UI/UX Integration: Translate Figma/Adobe XD designs into clean, semantic, responsive, and mobile-first HTML/CSS/JS code.
- SEO & Core Web Vitals: Ensure site structure, schema markup, and loading performance comply with Google’s Core Web Vitals and SEO best practices.
- Integrations & APIs: Connect third-party APIs, payment gateways, email marketing platforms, and analytics tools.
- Security & Maintenance: Perform routine maintenance, security audits, automated backups, and plugin/core updates with zero downtime.

Requirements & Qualifications
- WordPress Core: Deep understanding of the WordPress REST API, action hooks, filter hooks, and

📌 Wordpress Developer (India)
🏢 Scholarship Wallah
📍 India