Senior WordPress Developer

Overall Summary

The Senior WordPress Developer implements software requirements for projects based on the WordPress technology including the use of PHP, HTML5, CSS3+ and JavaScript. The primary objective for the Senior WordPress Developer is to produce high-quality, well-tested code for deployment within latest WordPress CMS instances.

Responsibilities

• Participates in requirements analysis processes.
• Collaborates with internal teams in producing software design and architecture.
• Writes clean, scalable code and unit tests using the PHP programming language.
• Maintains website standards and performs security testing and website performance testing.
• Revises, updates, refactors, and debugs code.
• Develops documentation throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Serves as an expert on developed applications and provides technical support.

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum 4+ years of experience working on WordPress projects.
• Proven experience as a WordPress Developer in a team environment.
• Excellent knowledge of WordPress, PHP, MySQL, CSS3, Semantic HTML5, and jQuery.
• Excellent knowledge of developing using WordPress and similar CMS standards.
• Experience working with and customizing popular plugins such as WooCommerce, Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields
• Proven experience developing using accessibility guidelines and web standards.
• Experience using one or more Git-based source code repository systems.
• Familiarity with architecture styles and API categories (REST, RPC, SOAP, etc.).
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and time-management skills.

Preferred

• Experience with cloud hosting environments such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon
• Web Services or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of “Google AMP” will be an added advantage.