We're looking for a PHP Developer to own the ongoing maintenance and improvement of our e-commerce store and our corporate website written in WordPress framework. You'll keep both platforms fast, secure, and reliable, ship new features, fix issues, and work closely with design, marketing, and content teams to bring changes live. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys both day-to-day upkeep and building new functionality.
Responsibilities- Maintain, update, and troubleshoot our WooCommerce e-commerce store and marketing website.
- Develop and customize themes and plugins to meet business and design requirements.
- Monitor site performance, optimize page speed, and resolve bugs and downtime issues.
- Manage updates to WordPress core, themes, and plugins, ensuring compatibility and stability.
- Implement and maintain security best practices, backups, and recovery procedures.
- Integrate third-party services and APIs (payment gateways, shipping, CRM, analytics, marketing tools).
- Collaborate with designers and content teams to implement layouts, landing pages, and campaigns.
- Ensure responsive, cross-browser, and mobile-friendly experiences.
- Maintain SEO-friendly, well-structured, and documented code.
- Set up and manage staging environments, version control, and safe deployment workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of professional WordPress development experience.
- Strong proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and MySQL.
- Hands-on experience with WooCommerce and e-commerce workflows (checkout, payments, orders, inventory).
- Experience building and customizing custom themes and plugins (not just page builders).
- Familiarity with REST APIs and third-party integrations.
- Understanding of website security, performance optimization, and caching.
- Experience with Git and standard deployment practices.
- Working knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
- Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Solid written and verbal communication in English
- Experience with headless WordPress or modern JS frameworks (React, Vue).
- Familiarity with SEO principles and tools.
- Experience with page builders (Elementor, WPBakery) and ACF.
- Basic server administration and hosting management (cPanel, Nginx/Apache, CDN).
- UI/UX sensibility and basic design skills.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package adjusted to proven skills and experience;
- Excellent working conditions;
- Exposure to training and professional development capabilities, including the ability to engage in cutting-edge research;
- Exposure to international clients and collaborators.
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of professional WordPress development experience
- Strong proficiency in PHP
- Strong proficiency in HTML5
- Strong proficiency in CSS3
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript
- Strong proficiency in MySQL
- Hands-on experience with WooCommerce and e-commerce workflows
- Experience building and customizing custom themes and plugins
- Familiarity with REST APIs and third-party integrations
- Understanding of website security, performance optimization, and caching
- Experience with Git and standard deployment practices
- Working knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
- Solid written and verbal communication in English
- Experience with page builders (Elementor, WPBakery) and ACF
- Experience with headless WordPress or modern JS frameworks (React, Vue)
- Basic server administration and hosting management (cPanel, Nginx/Apache, CDN)
- Familiarity with SEO principles and tools
- UI/UX sensibility and basic design skills
What We Do
SPHYNX offers products and solutions, and consulting services, in the areas of cyber intelligence, analytics, incident response, assurance, and certification. We provide customised and continuous security and privacy assessment solutions, covering the full range of socio-technical aspects of a modern enterprise, for internal risk management and/or external security audit and certification. Our solutions are based on our novel security assurance and certification platform and its advanced analytics and cyber intelligence. In addition, its consulting services, SPHYNX has expertise in providing customized solutions depending on client needs as well as more general training on analytics, security assessment and certification and cyber intelligence.
