[Hiring] WordPress Developer @Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences

Role Description

We are looking for a WordPress Developer with 2+ years of professional experience to join our team on a contract basis. The candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing WordPress websites with a strong focus on:

• WordPress development
• SEO
• Website performance
• Responsive design
• Troubleshooting
• Content publishing

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with an existing WordPress codebase, understanding business requirements, independently resolving technical issues, and delivering reliable solutions without impacting existing website functionality.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional WordPress development experience.
• Strong understanding of WordPress CMS, theme and plugin customization, and custom WordPress development.
• Proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, basic jQuery, MySQL, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Gutenberg, Elementor, WordPress Template Hierarchy, Custom Post Types, and Custom Taxonomies.
• Knowledge of on-page and technical SEO, including AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, or Rank Math.
• Understanding of Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed optimization, caching, image optimization, lazy loading, CDN concepts, and database/query optimization.
• Experience with cPanel, WordPress hosting environments such as Hostinger, domain/DNS fundamentals, SSL, FTP/SFTP, website migration, backup and restore, and staging/production environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues systematically, identify root causes, and make production changes carefully.
• Good to have: custom WordPress plugin/theme development, advanced REST API integrations, Google Analytics/GA4, Cloudflare, CDN configuration, and WordPress security/malware troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites based on business requirements.
• Customize WordPress themes, templates, plugins, widgets, and website components.
• Build and manage pages using Gutenberg and Elementor.
• Develop custom functionality using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Work with WordPress Actions, Filters, Hooks, and Template Hierarchy.
• Implement and maintain Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies where required.
• Work with the WordPress REST API and third-party API integrations.
• Manage WordPress pages, posts, categories, tags, menus, media, and other CMS functionality.
• Ensure websites are responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Implement and maintain on-page and technical SEO requirements within WordPress.
• Optimize SEO titles, meta descriptions, focus keyphrases, URLs, and heading structures.
• Implement and maintain canonical URLs, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, internal linking, image alt text, Open Graph metadata, and structured data/schema.
• Support SEO-friendly content publishing and website updates.
• Identify and troubleshoot common crawling, indexing, and technical SEO issues.
• Analyze and improve WordPress website performance.
• Identify and resolve page-load and performance bottlenecks.
• Optimize websites for Core Web Vitals.
• Improve caching, image optimization, and frontend asset delivery.
• Investigate database and query-related performance issues.
• Troubleshoot WordPress core, theme, plugin, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and frontend issues.
• Investigate issues and identify the root cause before implementing a fix.
• Resolve plugin conflicts and compatibility issues.
• Perform WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates safely.
• Troubleshoot 404 errors, broken links, redirects, layout issues, and other website problems.
• Support website backups, migrations, staging, and production maintenance.
• Monitor website functionality and proactively identify potential issues.

Benefits