Senior Manager – Web Development

Indian Institute of Art & Design (IIAD) and AND Academy

B-26, Okhla Phase – I, New Delhi - 110020

Timings 09.00 am – 06.00 pm (Monday to Friday)

10.00 am - 05.00 pm (Saturday), 2 Saturdays off

Work from office

Reporting-

• Development, maintenance, security, performance optimisation and updating of webpages on current WordPress website
• Development of new webpages and blog pages, and taking them live
• Customisation and development of themes
• Conversion of design from PSD to WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Static HTML and CSS-JS
• Conversion of HTML / PHP to WordPress
• Identification and debugging of any technical errors on the website
• Optimisation of website architecture, including migration from WordPress to React / other if needed

Work Experience

• 5+ years of work experience in web development
• Must be a full stack WordPress developer
• Extensive hands-on experience of working on WordPress and PHP, JS, CSS
• Extensive experience of website development, security, maintenance and deploying to staging and production
• Experience of page speed optimisation, performance optimisation (caching, minification, image optimisation), lazy loading and using CDNs (like Cloudflare)
• Experience of creating custom WordPress themes and custom plug-ins (including reusable functionality), and managing plugins, back-end settings and custom post types
• Experience of using Ajax and MySQL Database
• Experience of using API / Rest API
• Experience of using front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5 and jQuery
• Experience of using code versioning tools including Git, BitBucket and Github
• Understanding of front-end design, including responsive design (CSS Flexbox/grid, media queries), cross-browser compatibility, DOM manipulation and Single Page Application (SPA)
• Familiarity with SEO plugins like Yoast

Additional Skills

• React development
• JavaScript (Backend)
• Familiarity with performance tools like PageSpeed Insights and GTMetrix
• Other Backend technologies
• Other Database technologies (eg. MongoDB)

Personality & must have

• Good communication and coordination skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent planning, prioritisation and project management skills
• Excellent people and team management skills, as well as ability to coordinate with other departments
• Hard-working with high level of attention to detail