WordPress Engineer

Role Summary

Our company is currently seeking a WordPress Developer to join our team. This is a remote working position.

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and resourceful PHP / WordPress developer with a blend of back-end and front-end skills to serve as lead developer. In this highly collaborative role, you will work with front end developers, designers and content developers 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
• Integrate wide range of WordPress plugins, API calls and third party apps and forms, such as Eloqua
• Manage back-end services and interchange of data between server and user, including server-side logic and database integration
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from front-end
• 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

Requirements

Skills

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience as a web developer
• 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 (Subversion or Git)