Web Developer

We have an immediate need for a full-stack WordPress developer for our US Based Projects. The ideal candidate has a thorough understanding of WordPress development standards and best practices. Strong front-end/back-end skills and experience creating and working with custom themes is required.You’ll spend your day (in order of most time spent):

Translate exact replica of PSD and AI designs into HTML & WordPress

Creating pixel perfect websites for desktop and mobile via WordPress

Creating landing pages and forms that get our clients leads and sales (HTML & CSS)

Working closely with a large, cross-functional team of designers, marketers, and web devs

Editing WordPress themes to be 20% more awesome

Building emails and templates in MailChimp

Optimizing the user interfaces of sites

Updating sites and fixing bugs

Dealing with random hosting, DNS, and website issues that pop up

Collaborating and problem solving with the creative and digital teams to create unique digital solutions to meet our clients’ needs and exceed their expectations

Required Skills and Qualifications:

The most important qualification is a willingness and ability to learn! Desired requirements for this position includes:

Be a problem solver and ability to prioritize, multitask, and manage time

1 or 2 years of WordPress, HTML5 and CSS3 Responsive Design experience (editing premade wordpress themes is not experience)

Ability to operate Photoshop and Illustrator at a basic level (to translate PSD and AI designs into HTML & WordPress)

Building UI’s to specifications based on provided PSD mockups

Implementing WP-Plugins when plugins are ideal (and knowing when they aren’t)

Implementing 3rd-party libraries and basic APIs

Social media API experience

Front End Frameworks – Foundation, Bootstrap, etc

Javascript (jQuery is great, JSON is a plus)

Experience with ControlPanel, PHPmyAdmin, and databases

PHP coding ability

Ability to use web inspectors (Chrome, Firefox, whatever)

Exposure to hosting a dev site or local test server (for example MAMP or WAMP)