WordPress & WooCommerce Theme Developer – E-commerce Stores

Company: A to Z Furniture
Location: UAE / Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience Required: 3+ years

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced WordPress & WooCommerce Theme Developer to build, customize, optimize, and maintain professional, fast, responsive, and conversion-focuseINd e-commerce websites.

The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience in WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, responsive design, technical SEO, and website performance optimization.

The candidate should be capable of converting Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, or reference designs into high-quality, responsive WordPress and WooCommerce pages.

Experience with furniture, home décor, interior, retail, or other product-based e-commerce stores will be highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop custom WordPress and WooCommerce themes from scratch or customize existing themes.

• Convert Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, or reference designs into accurate, responsive WordPress pages.

• Customize WooCommerce:

• Shop pages

• Category pages

• Product pages

• Cart pages

• Checkout pages

• Customer account pages

• Wishlist pages

• Build responsive layouts using Bootstrap 5, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.

• Develop and customize variable products with options such as size, colour, material, finish, fabric, and dimensions.

• Create custom product features including colour swatches, fabric selectors, image galleries, quick view, wishlist, related products, and product recommendations.

• Develop AJAX-based product search, filtering, sorting, autocomplete, mini-cart, and side-cart functionality.

• Integrate payment gateways, shipping methods, WhatsApp, email notifications, and third-party APIs.

• Integrate and maintain Google Merchant Center product feeds and Meta product catalogues.

• Optimize websites for mobile devices, page speed, Core Web Vitals, and conversion performance.

• Implement SEO-friendly website structures including heading hierarchy, schema markup, breadcrumbs, metadata, canonical URLs, internal linking, and clean URLs.

• Ensure compatibility with major browsers and current WordPress and WooCommerce versions.

• Diagnose and fix theme, plugin, database, checkout, JavaScript, and performance issues.

• Identify and resolve plugin conflicts and compatibility problems.

• Maintain clean, secure, reusable, scalable, and well-documented code.

• Work closely with designers, SEO specialists, content teams, marketing teams, and management.

• Use staging environments and backups before implementing major website changes.

• Test all features thoroughly before deployment.

• Provide ongoing website maintenance, technical support, updates, and improvements.

Required Technical Skills

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on WordPress and WooCommerce development experience.

• Strong knowledge of custom WordPress theme development.

• Strong experience with WooCommerce customization.

• Excellent knowledge of PHP and MySQL.

• Strong skills in HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 5, JavaScript, and jQuery.

• Strong understanding of WordPress hooks, filters, actions, template hierarchy, child themes, and theme customization.

• Experience with WooCommerce hooks, filters, template overrides, and custom functionality.

• Ability to create custom post types, taxonomies, shortcodes, widgets, and Gutenberg blocks.

• Experience working with REST APIs and AJAX.

• Knowledge of Git and version control.

• Understanding of WordPress security and coding standards.

• Experience optimizing images, scripts, stylesheets, caching, databases, and server performance.

• Ability to troubleshoot plugin conflicts and server-related issues.

E-Commerce Experience Required

The candidate should have practical experience developing and customizing:

• Product category and listing pages.

• Advanced variable products.

• Product image galleries.

• Colour and fabric swatches.

• Product filters and sorting.

• AJAX search and autocomplete.

• Wishlist functionality.

• Product comparison functionality.

• Quick-view functionality.

• Mini-cart and side-cart.

• Custom cart and checkout pages.

• Discount and coupon functionality.

• Product recommendations and related products.

• Google Merchant Center product feeds.

• Meta product catalogue integration.

• Google Analytics 4 and conversion tracking.

SEO and Performance Knowledge

The candidate should have a good understanding of:

• SEO-friendly WordPress theme structure.

• Proper H1–H6 heading hierarchy.

• Product, breadcrumb, organization, and FAQ schema.

• Image file naming and ALT-text implementation.

• Canonical URLs and indexation controls.

• XML sitemap and robots.txt configuration.

• Page speed and Core Web Vitals optimization.

• Mobile-first development.

• Lazy loading and WebP/AVIF image optimization.

• Browser caching, CSS/JavaScript optimization, and script loading.

• Database optimization.

• Clean code with minimal unnecessary plugin dependency.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience with furniture, home décor, interior design, retail, or other product-based e-commerce websites.

• Experience handling large WooCommerce product catalogs.

• Experience with products containing multiple variations such as colour, fabric, material, size, finish, and dimensions.

• Experience with Elementor, Gutenberg, or other WordPress page-building systems.

• Experience with Cloudflare, CDN, caching, and hosting environments.

• Experience with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Meta Pixel, and conversion tracking.

• Experience with Google Merchant Center and product feed optimization.

• Familiarity with WooCommerce payment and shipping integrations.

• Experience working with GitHub, Bitbucket, or similar development workflows.

Candidate Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of professional WordPress and WooCommerce development experience.

• Strong portfolio of completed WordPress/WooCommerce e-commerce projects.

• Must provide links to at least 3 live websites personally developed or significantly customized.

• Candidate must clearly explain their specific contribution to each project.

• Strong attention to visual details, spacing, typography, responsiveness, and usability.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.

• Ability to communicate clearly with management and non-technical team members.

• Good written and spoken English.

• Experience working with furniture, home décor, interiors, or retail e-commerce will be an advantage.

Performance Expectations

The successful candidate will be expected to deliver:

• Professional, modern, and responsive e-commerce websites.

• Fast-loading and mobile-optimized pages.

• Accurate WooCommerce product and variation functionality.

• Reliable cart, checkout, payment, and shipping functionality.

• Clean and maintainable code.

• Secure and stable website development.

• Improved website speed and Core Web Vitals.

• SEO-friendly website architecture.

• Reliable third-party integrations.

• Minimal unnecessary plugin dependency.

• Timely completion of assigned development tasks.

• Proactive identification and resolution of website issues.

• Continuous improvement of customer experience and conversion opportunities.

Application Requirements

Please include the following with your application:

1. A short introduction about your WordPress and WooCommerce experience.

2. Links to at least 3 live WordPress/WooCommerce websites personally developed or significantly customized by you.

3. A description of your role and specific work completed on each project.

4. Examples of custom WooCommerce features you have developed.

5. Details of your experience with PHP, WooCommerce hooks, WordPress hooks, AJAX, and JavaScript.

6. Details of your experience with website speed and Core Web Vitals optimization.

7. Current location and availability to join.

8. Expected salary.

9. Preferred working arrangement: full-time, remote, or hybrid.

10. Confirmation that you are willing to complete a short practical WordPress/WooCommerce development test.

Practical Test

Shortlisted candidates may be asked to develop a responsive WooCommerce product page for a furniture product that includes:

• Product image gallery.

• Colour/fabric swatches.

• Size selection.

• Material/finish selection.

• Dynamic product variation and pricing.

• Product availability.

• Add-to-cart functionality.

• AJAX cart or mini-cart functionality.

• Mobile-responsive layout.

• SEO-friendly HTML structure.

• Clean and reusable WordPress/WooCommerce code.

The submitted work should demonstrate strong PHP, WooCommerce, WordPress, JavaScript, AJAX, responsive design, and e-commerce development knowledge.

Only candidates with genuine hands-on WordPress/WooCommerce development experience and a verifiable portfolio will be considered.