WordPress Developer

• 5 years of experience in full stack web development
  
• Contributes to all phases of the development cycle including project estimation
  
• Provides peerlevel review of strategy and code
  
• Able to work independently and in small teams
  
• Communicates and reports on the status and requirements with other teams (inhouse and remote)
  
• Mentors educates and motivates junior team members
  
• Adheres and contributes to standards automations and best practices
  
• Manages tradeoffs between development speed and quality
  
• Possesses strong communication presentation and documentation skills
  
• Proficient in writing and speaking English
  
• Ensures all deliverables meet all requirements and are developed with established quality standards
  
• Able to multitask between multiple projects and prioritize accordingly
  
• Ensures project deadlines are met; communicates when obstacles prevent delivery on time
  
• Has a datadriven approach to testing and implementing improvements
  
• Experience with generating reports from different platforms to satisfy client requests
  
• Has a collaborative and openminded personality
  
• Provides and accepts constructive feedback to improve the quality of products
  
• Openminded; willing to seek the opinions and inputs of others before providing a deliverable
  
• Possesses an innovative inventive creative logical and analytical mindset
  

Requirements

• Experience in digital marketing
  
• Implements SEO best practices
  
• A working knowledge of HTML CSS CSS preprocessors (LESS and SASS) native JavaScript jQuery and MySQL/MariaDB
  
• Experience in digital marketing
  
• Experience working with HTML5 and CSS3 features; implements fallbacks for features unavailable in older browsers and on older devices
  
• Ability to transform static designs from Photoshop Sketch and Zeplin to responsive HTML5 web pages
  
• Experience with React JS Angular Node.js and XSL are a plus
  
• Experience developing in current PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel 5.6) and has an understanding of MVC principles is a plus
  
• Expertise in developing and optimizing the Document Object Model and CSS layout rendertree construction (HTML parsing paint rendering and compositing)
  
• Experience developing on both LAMP and LEMP stacks
  
• Familiarity developing with and maintaining codebases on Microsoft IIS .NET (C# ASP.NET) and MSSQL Server are a plus
  
• Experience in developing and maintaining custom and requirementsdriven WordPress themes and plugins from scratch. Has familiarity of core WordPress classes and functions. Does not depend on thirdparty themes/child themes and plugins to develop WordPress websites. Experience with WordPress multisite is a plus.
  
• Working with Git version control
  
• Utilizes both objectoriented programming (OOP) and functional programming
  
• Experience interfacing and developing web applications with JavaScript and serverside (PHP) client libraries/APIs/SDKs (RESTful and SOAP)
  
• Familiar with debugging and reverse engineering codebases without elaborate problem descriptions
  
• Familiarity with profiling code both serverside (using tools such as Xdebug) and clientside (using tools such as Google Searchlight and Runtime Performance audit in DevTools)
  
• Experience using thirdparty profiling tools including Google PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom to optimize website performance and understands how to implement recommendations from these tools
  
• Experience with secure coding principles and best practices for web applications; familiar with and implements measures against common security vulnerabilities such as XSS
  
• Has worked with marketing platforms including Google Analytics Google Ads and Google Search Console
  
• Experience working in Scrum and other agile development methodologies
  
• Experience with package managers (Composer NPM)
  
• Experience setting up and maintaining LAMP and LEMP servers both dedicated and virtualized (notably Red Hat CentOS and Ubuntu distributions); familiarity with the linux command line setting up active traffic and performance monitoring solutions optimizing PHPFPM pools and tuning Apache/Nginx configurations based on server load and CPU and I/O utilization; ensuring software versions are up to date and security patches are applied promptly; install and test custom software
  
• Create and implement database specifications design models and queries to meet the functional requirements of custom web applications
  
• Ensures code rigidity and compatibility by testing all use cases (and includes edge cases into function design) and ensures code accuracy in QA. Applies to designed web pages (responsive layouts and crossbrowser/device testing) frontend code and backend code
  
• Familiarity with writing custom or frameworkdriven RESTful APIs is a plus
  
• Familiarity with deployments to AWS is a plus
  
• Experience developing with eCommerce platforms (Magento) is a plus
  

Benefits

We offer competitive healthcare dental and vision plans along with several voluntary benefit extras. Employees receive generous PTO in addition to all major holidays and the option to enroll in a comprehensive 401K plan with employer matching.