Job Type: Ful\-Time \| Experience: 1\+ Years \| Industry: IT Services / Digital Agency
*About the Role**
ARA Web Technologies is hiring a skilled PHP Developer with hands\-on experience in Laravel, CodeIgniter, and WordPress to join our development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, customizing, and maintaining web applications and websites for our diverse client base. The ideal candidate has at least 1 year of professional development experience in an IT agency environment, with strong problem\-solving abilities and a passion for writing clean, efficient, and well\- documented code. You will work on projects ranging from custom CMS development to e\-commerce solutions and enterprise web applications.
*Key Responsibilities**
Develop, test, and maintain custom web applications using Laravel, CodeIgniter, and core PHP
Design, build, and customize WordPress themes and plugins from scratch
Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and third\-party services
Write clean, well\-structured, and reusable code following MVC architecture and coding standards
Optimize application performance, database queries, and page load speeds
Implement security best practices including data validation, sanitization, and protection against SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF attacks