WordPress Maintenance Developer - Rivulet Digital

Full Time Ahmedabad 5 years

A live client website needs someone who treats its ongoing health as a full-time responsibility, not a background task squeezed between projects. This role exists to own that responsibility: managing a portfolio of live WordPress sites, keeping them healthy, performant, and secure, while also taking on ad hoc development and project-based work as it comes up.

The majority of the day-to-day work here is maintenance-focused — updates, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization — but the role also calls for real backend development skill: custom theme work, plugin customization, and PHP-based solutions when a site needs more than routine upkeep.

This role is for someone who enjoys:

• Owning the ongoing health of live sites, not just shipping and moving on
• Diagnosing and fixing backend issues quickly and cleanly
• Balancing steady maintenance work with occasional custom development
• Working independently across multiple concurrent client sites

If you’re someone who takes pride in a portfolio of sites that just quietly work, and who’s equally comfortable writing custom PHP when needed, this role gives you both halves of that.

What you’ll really be doing

1. WordPress Site Maintenance

• Own the ongoing health of a portfolio of live client websites
• Perform routine core, plugin, and theme updates across all managed sites
• Monitor uptime, manage environments, and proactively identify issues before they escalate

2. Bug Fixing & Troubleshooting

• Diagnose and resolve backend issues, plugin conflicts, PHP errors, and performance bottlenecks
• Work across staging and production environments with minimal turnaround time
• Provide clear documentation of issues identified and resolutions applied

3. Security & Performance Optimization

• Implement and enforce security best practices across all client sites
• Conduct performance audits and optimize load times
• Apply caching strategies and database optimization techniques as required

4. Custom Theme & Plugin Development

• Build and customize WordPress themes and plugins using PHP, hooks, filters, and actions
• Write clean, well-documented, and standards-compliant code for both new builds and existing sites
• Implement customizations based on requirements received from PMs or delivery leads

5. Third-Party Integrations

• Integrate REST APIs, payment gateways, CRMs, and third-party services into WordPress environments
• Troubleshoot and maintain existing integrations as part of ongoing site management

6. WooCommerce Support