WordPress Developer, Engineering

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)