WordPress Developer

Opportunity at Koimoi.com 

What’s the opportunity?

To help build India’s leading Bollywood mobile destination, koimoi.com.

Based in: Mumbai

Reporting to: Mahesh Khambadkone

Age & Experience:

A total experience of 3-4 years experience, with the last 2 years working on large consumer-facing mobile websites.

What the job is all about – Role & Responsibility:

  • Understand new requirements from the Koimoi Product Manager.
  • Devise an execution plan, which includes change management, testing and providing any tools that Editorial and Content teams may require to implement these new requirements.
  • Coordinate with the Deployment Team, when required, for rolling-out the requirements. This requires an ability to understand how WordPress is deployed.
  • Implement the plan!

Desired Profile:

  • Somebody who loves Bollywood / entertainment, the power of WordPress, and thinks WordPress plugins, themes and communities.
  • Is able to communicate well and to rapidly integrate & prototype new features.
  • Very comfortable with CSS / JS. Candidates with past expertise in PHP, will be preferred, but not mandatory.

Desired Soft Skills:

Good communication skills, Should be responsible.

Qualifications:

A graduate who is able to operate a computer masterfully, and has a Masters In Common Sense.

Remuneration:

Note that we do not want people to join us just for a better salary. Instead, we want people to join us for the love of what we do and the opportunity to shine professionally!

Growth and prospects:

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to be a part of the fast growing online Bollywood digital industry in India and play a hands-on role in scaling up a successful business to a very large scale. The freedom to experiment, innovate and pioneer business ideas in the exploding Bollywood digital industry will be enormous.

Next Steps
If this role excites you, please :

Visit www.koimoi.com. The site has a Widget to display Box Office numbers for the top 5 films.

Develop a WordPress plugin comprising a Widget and a Settings Page. The Widget should be configurable, to allow the following views : Top 5 for past week & top 5 of a particular actor / actress.

You may assume there is a table comprising movie name, BO Collections to date, and tags for actor / actress / director and genre.

Best of Luck!

Send the code you develop, along with a link to your solution running on a WordPress site/server you operate & your resume to to hr@koimoi.com