We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Developer to join our Engineering team! As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, working with WordPress themes and plugins. You will be expected to write durable, extensible and secure code.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing new solution features and functionality
- Maintaining existing applications and executing bug fixes
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
- Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites
- Working closely with business, product and engineering resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception through delivery
- Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice and internal coding standards
- Writing unit tests, conducting code reviews and validating code
You are:
- Laser-focused on customer experience for front-end features, performance and back-end functionality
- Passionate about the latest industry trends and content management systems
- Enthusiastic about development and solving challenging problems with a positive attitude
- Committed, respectful, sincere, trustworthy and conscientious
- An excellent communicator with the ability to effectively interface with all levels and departments on a formal, informal, written and verbal basis
- Self-motivated, goal-oriented and able to work in a team environment
- An avid believer in team collaboration where shared goals and commitments are paramount
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field
- Basic knowledge of the product development life cycle and software development life cycle
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in the WordPress space
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in crafting modern PHP
- Exceptional knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
- Experience with WordPress Gutenberg block editor
- Strong understanding of React, Angular and other front-end frameworks
- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
- Knowledge of SAAS, CSCC or LESS preprocessors
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
- Thorough knowledge of MySQL
- Experience using command line task runners such as Gulp and Grunt
- Comfortable working with browser debugging tools found in Chrome, Firefox and Edge, as well as debugging proxy tools such as Fiddler
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN
Preferred:
- 5+ years’ experience in WordPress
- 2+ years’ experience in React
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with server-side technologies such as Redis or Elasticsearch
- Experience in more advanced areas of JavaScript (state management; async operations)