Responsibilities

• · Collaborate with the team to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand.


• · Architect, develop, and maintain creative technical solutions, products, and features for our clients' websites that address complex business objectives.


• · Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure the technical feasibility and point out potential issues.


• ·  Make sure we can deliver on time, on budget, and on scope— and flag any concerns early on to allow adjustments plans to MVP as needed.


• ·  Architect and develop new backend features and plugins, custom functionality and theme integration.


• · Write high-quality code with readability, efficiency, and maintainability in mind— while considering site speed and performance implications.


• · Experience in developing and maintaining complex WordPress-based solutions, themes, and plugins.


• · QA and code review of front-end and back-end development work.


• · Explore and incorporate new and emerging development trends.


• · Actively participate in our scrum and development meetings.


• · Work with the team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests.


• ·  Performance and security monitoring, along with vulnerability analysis.

• ·  3 - 6 years of experience working as a WordPress developer on production sites, with core experience focusing on back-end development.


• ·  Experience working on complex WordPress sites, and experience with WordPress Multi-site a bonus.


• ·  Strong knowledge of WordPress development, and its associated stack: PHP, semantic HTML, JavaScript, Git, and MySQL.


• ·  Familiarity with front-end technologies a plus: CSS (Sass) and JavaScript (jQuery, React).


• ·  Ability to set up, configure, manage, and perform all phases of web development, testing, and routine deployments.


• ·  Strong agile development (Scrum, Kanban) experience, including tools like JIRA.


• ·  A methodical approach to all tasks including independent decision making and problem-solving skills.


• ·  Ability to showcase previous projects you’ve worked on and the specific functionality you’ve built.


• ·  Comfortable working with debugging tools.

• ·  E-commerce experience, specifically with WooCommerce and/or Magento.