Platform Lead- PHP/wordpress

**Platform Lead - PHP/WordPress VitaminLab** **About Us** Founded in 2017, VitaminLab is an award-winning organization that has been recognized as a Top Growth Company in Canada. Our mission is to change how people take vitamins. We work with partners and practitioners to create a supplement unique to the needs of individuals based on blood, genetic testing or individual preferences. We bring affordable, high-quality formulas to health-minded people all over the planet. Our team is growing rapidly along with our brand and we are looking for health and growth-minded people to join us at our HQ in beautiful Victoria, BC as we expand across the globe. **About the role** We are seeking a talented **PHP/WordPress Platform Lead** to join our team. You will oversee other WordPress developers, ensuring on-time, quality development of new key features each sprint. Your role will include QA to guarantee deployment-ready work. Beyond technical expertise, your leadership will be pivotal, guiding the team, driving task completion, and fostering collaboration across stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities**: - **PHP/WordPress Development Management**: Lead and manage WordPress development, working closely with our development team to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions and perform development work on different areas of our site to understand current code and opportunities for improvement. You collaborate with our Product team and Development Manager on projects and sprint management. - **Developer Coaching and Leadership**: Work with our current development team to optimize work outputs based on their skill sets. Continually evaluate quality of work and offer constructive feedback and coaching to help our developers grow and succeed in their roles. - **QA and Ticket Management**: Conduct quality assurance (QA) and code reviews on features and updates, ensuring adherence to standards and specifications. Communicate with stakeholders on team QA testing results. Evaluate ticket backlog, ensuring timely resolution of issues and follow-up with stakeholders on incomplete or updated tickets and requests. Ensure urgent tickets are quickly assigned or worked on as needed and QA bug fixes and ensure timely communication with stakeholders. - **Feature Release Coordination**: Coordinate with stakeholders on feature release testing and launch timing, ensuring successful feature deployment. Collaborate with teams to clarify feature and update requirements, ensuring alignment with our developers' understanding. **Qualifications**: - 6+ years experience developing custom WordPress functionality and themes - 3+ years of leadership experience, managing diverse teams and complex projects - Solid understanding of PHP (both procedural and object-oriented), SQL, HTML/CSS - Solid understanding of Linux servers, command line and version management - Ability to handle and accurately adapt mock-ups/designs into responsive, consistent, and accessible WordPress pages and sites - Experience with migrating data from legacy websites to WordPress-compatible formats - Solid understanding of responsive design and experience building fully responsive sites - Debug and optimize existing codebase - Perform code reviews with your peers - Provide ongoing support and maintenance for existing platform - Ability to write clean, secure, reusable code - Familiarity with SOLID/DRY software development principles - Experience with AWS EC2, S3 is an asset - Experience with setting up CI/CD for WordPress-based sites is an asset - Experience writing unit tests using such testing frameworks as PHPUnit or similar is a huge asset - Located in Victoria, BC or Remote BC is preferred. Other locations considered however must be able to work PST business hours - Fix urgent production bugs in a timely manner (If the bug happens after hours, the hours can be offset the next day or as needed) - Interest or experience in healthcare is an asset **Our Amazing Perks & Employee Programs**: - Personal Fridays: Enjoy every other Friday off - Paid Vacation Time - 5 Paid Sick Days (if you need them, we have you covered) - Extended Health and Dental Benefits - Fitness and Wellness Account - Your Own Personalized Supplement Plan - Professional Development Allowance - Team Events and Socials - An opportunity to grow and make an impact on an amazing team The typical salary range for this position is between **$70,000 - $85,000 CDN**. This role is open to Remote, Hybrid or in-person work. You must be eligible for employment within Canada. Pay: $70,000.00-$85,000.00 per year