Front End Developer

Role Summary

The Publisher Desk helps you build your audience and grow your revenue.

Empowering sports, lifestyle & business media brands to connect with their audience and value-aligned advertisers.

The Publisher Desk is seeking an experienced, motivated and resourceful Front End Developer to join our team. Help us to build efficient, beautiful and responsive media/news focused websites.

Responsibilities

• Code new WordPress themes, page templates, and plugins from scratch and modify existing themes and plugins
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable php modules including dynamic content and personalization features
• Provide front-end development of digital marketing communications, including full websites and micro-sites, landing pages, emails, and other initiatives

Develop, test and troubleshoot across multiple browsers, platforms and devices, including tablets and smartphones, to support a consistent and positive customer experience

Provide guidance on SEO best practices for site development

• Research and recommend new technologies and tools for effective integration across various platforms
• Additionally, you must understand user experience and be able to build media websites that are easy to understand, navigate, use, and adhere to design standards and specifications.
• You should be be able to design layouts for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
• Create wireframes or mockups for web pages and applications.
• Establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• We are always exploring new and innovative projects & ideas, giving you a great place to grow your career.

Requirements

5 years of experience as a web developer

Strong working knowledge of the Wordpress Gutenberg editor, especially the creation and maintenance of custom blocks for unique site needs.

• Experience creating and integrating custom wordpress plugins, themes, working with Wordpress hooks and filters
• Experience creating websites for a mobile-first strategy
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
• Strong knowledge of common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Experience with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, and responsive frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience with online usability, accessibility, and web analytics
• Experience with development languages (Java or Python)
• Experience integrating or working with ad serving technologies (prebid, DFPP)
• Experience with software versioning and revision control systems (Git required)
• WordPress experience
• Good understanding of search engine optimization and core web vitals principles.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Creative and open to new ideas.
• Excellent communication skills.