Team Lead-PHP & WordPress

Client: Corporate entity having a Global platform providing credible health and wellness information.

Location: Bengaluru – Work from Office

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.

Interested candidates to please share immediately their resumes along with their current CTC and Notice period to [email protected]