WordPress Developer

Andersen, an international IT company, invites a WordPress Developer to work on a large-scale project. The role focuses on creating and maintaining corporate websites.

The customer is dedicated to providing innovative and reliable products and services across the Middle East and Africa. It offers a wide range of consumer electronics, B2B solutions, and life solutions, aiming to enhance the quality of life and business operations for its customers. The company continues to introduce advanced, energy-efficient, and health-focused products, supported by an extensive service network spanning more than 30 countries.

The project is focused on the development and long-term maintenance of corporate websites for external clients, along with ongoing support to ensure stability, security, and up-to-date functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Developing WordPress-based websites from scratch or using existing themes.
• Building and customizing WordPress themes and plugins.
• Integrating with third-party APIs, forms, analytics tools, maps, etc.
• Optimizing website performance, security, and SEO readiness.
• Maintaining and supporting existing websites: fix bugs, apply updates, manage caching.
• Participating in deployments to dev/stage/prod environments (with DevOps support).
• Working with ticketing systems (e.g., Jira): read, comment, and update tasks on time.

Must-haves:

• Commercial experience with PHP and WordPress for 2+ years.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS (SASS/SCSS), and JavaScript (vanilla or jQuery).
• Experience with custom theme and plugin development (without builders like Elementor).
• Solid understanding of WordPress architecture: WP_Query, hooks, filters, CPTs.
• Experience working with REST APIs (including WP REST API).
• Ability to deploy and configure WordPress projects locally and on hosting (wp-config, .htaccess, database).
• Experience with Git.
• Experience working with bug-tracking/project management tools like Jira.
• Level of English – from Intermediate and above.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with WooCommerce, ACF, WPML, or similar plugins.
• Basic SEO awareness (meta tags, heading structure, canonical URLs, sitemap).
• Experience supporting production WordPress environments.
• Familiarity with performance tools (e.g., Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed).
• Knowledge of caching strategies (WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, server-level caching).

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!