Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Technical Team Lead - Wordpress/PHP (6-9 yrs) (Link Success)

Wordpress/PHP Technical Team Lead

We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Technical Team Lead to join our team! As the Technical Team Lead, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our 16 websites incl. Lifestyle Asia, Prestige, Augustman, Travel + Leisure as well as our (future) ecommerce shops. Thereby, you will be closely working with our teams in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and India.

About us :

Successful regional publishing brands in lifestyle and luxury markets with presence across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India. Print publications include Hello!, Augustman, Prestige, PIN Prestige, Travel + Leisure, Discover India and Architecture + Design. Both print and digital brands cater to very savvy audiences. As part of its range of offering, Burda also provides expertise and resources to clients seeking creative services as well as production of high-quality contract publishing.

You will be responsible for :

- Building a team of developers, QA for backend and frontend development for our magazines and eCommerce shops

- Setting up agile processes, managing sprints, setting up deployment systems

- Ensuring code quality is maintained and re-engineering where necessary

- Project management, managing timelines and communicating with the business stakeholders across the region

- Gathering and refining specifications and requirements based on technical needs

- Creating and maintaining software documentation

Requirements :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field

- 5+ years of full stack PHP, Wordpress, WooCommerce, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL development skills (other languages beneficial)

- 2+ years Project Management experience, Scrum certifications are beneficial

- 2+ years of Technical Managerial experience

- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.

- Experience in writing test cases.

- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

- Knowledge of how to interact with formats (JSON, XML)

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git and Mercurial)

- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development Experience with web servers (Nginx/Apache)

In addition :

- Fluent English speaking/writing skills

- Highly analytical with good problem-solving skills Can-do attitude, team player, entrepreneurial drive

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