WordPress Developer

We are looking for a skilled WordPress developer with several years of experience creating and modifying classic themes.
You’d be working with a senior WordPress developer to maintain and improve the company’s existing website. You’d be responsible for both front-end and back-end development tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Meet (virtually) with the company’s marketing team and senior WordPress developer on a regular basis to determine the best way to achieve the company’s goals (with respect to the website).
• Create or modify website content when advanced HTML / CSS knowledge is required (e.g. custom layouts on important pages)
• Make small to medium changes to the theme
• Test the impact of WordPress core and plugin updates on the website
• Implement recommendations from an SEO agency
• Modify the theme to support new or updated plugins
• Improve website performance
• Additional responsibilities would depend on your skill set

Requirements:

• Excellent English proficiency (near-native, e.g. CEFR English level C2) for written and verbal communications. Native English proficiency would be ideal.
• Dependable with a high attention to detail
• Several years of web development experience (ideally with at least a total of 1 year working for US based companies)
• Several years of experience with the following:
  • WordPress (must have significant experience creating and modifying classic WordPress themes WITHOUT relying on 3rd party page builders like Elementor, Divi, etc.)
  • PHP
  • HTML / CSS (including SCSS/SASS)
  • JavaScript
• An ideal candidate would also have experience with some or all of the following:
  • Gravity Forms WordPress plugin
  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) WordPress plugin
  • Writing WordPress plugins
  • Native WordPress blocks (including adding support to a classic theme)
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Cloudflare
  • HTTP request caching
  • Docker
  • Migrating medium/large websites between hosting providers

Additional skills (not mandatory)

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related majors) or an equivalent amount of relevant work experience would be ideal.
• Experience working with more than one WordPress developer on the same project using Git (ideally using GitHub and the GitHub flow)

A few important internal notes:
For this position: English proficiency, project communication skills, reliability, and dependability are significantly more important than the breadth of skills the applicant has.

In your response email please share:
The most recent 2 to 3 websites you’ve created or significantly worked on. For each website, please specify the tech stack you used (e.g. WordPress 5 with “Hello” theme, Elementor, and Gravity Forms) and what aspects of the site you were personally responsible for.

A link to a short video introducing yourself. Please explain in the video about the website they’ve worked on, what you were responsible for, and why they are proud of it. (The video can be from 1-5min)