Your next job as a Sr. WordPress Developer
Summary of strict requirements:
- 5+ years of WordPress Frontend development experience (e.g. building templates from scratch);
- 4+ years mastering graphical tools like Figma, Sketch or Photoshop;
- 3+ years UI/UX design experience;
- Experience with JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, HTML and CSS. (translating designs to frontend;
- Experience working with GIT;
- Experience with PHP (3+ years);
- Accurate and attention to details in your way of working;
- English: intermediate+ (worked in English speaking teams before);
- Active communicator;
- When we talk about years of experience we mean years of project experience at the client side.
Fast scaling business
Excellent renumiration
Fully remote
40 hours /week
Extensive descripion senior WordPress developer position (Remote)
About the company
The company is a Dutch Agency building WordPress sites for clients from scratch with their own theme. Besides web development they offer online marketing services, attracting visitors to the websites of their clients. They are growing steadily every year and have set up a remote team of WordPress developers
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About the team
They currently have a team of 6 online marketeers, 3 developers with 1 remote developer and 2 projectmanagers. They would like to expand their remote team further and are looking for an experienced senior wordpress developers (remote). They follow the scrum-cycle with daily standups. The team handles building new websites, building new functionality, bugfixing and redesign, connecting to API’s.
Back end Devs
Front end devs
UX/UI designers
Vacancy
About you
Your responsibilities entail:
- Develop new features, plugins and advanced theme components within WordPress;
- Translate visual designs to frontends (based on the theme of the client);
- Ability to plan, conceptualize, and deliver projects (planning, estimating, developing, collaborating, testing, and QA) with other team members;
- Integrate with 3rd party APIs, with performance and security in mind.
Lead the team
Improve performance
Connect suppliers
API expert
Technology stack (strict requirements):
Your skill level
- Proficiency with graphical tools like Figma, Sketch or Photoshop;
- Experience with Custom WordPress themes and building plugins from scratch, able to show us examples within your GitHub/BitBucket/WP Repo account;
- Adapt Frontends with JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, HTML and CSS;
- Advanced proficiency with latest version PHP & MySQL;
- Development expertise with custom post types, custom fields, plug-ins, theme development and WordPress database;
- Understanding of WordPress Shortcodes, functions, and the loop;
- Extrensive experience with the full frontend development life cycle. You have experience in working locally, deploying to staging environment, and with deployments to production;
- You are comfortable with the command line and WP-CLI;
- Experience transferring data through endpoints using APIs.
Besides the skills mentioned above, if you have experience with the following, you should definitely apply:
- CSS pre-processors (SASS or LESS);
- Responsive Frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap);
- 3rd party APIs, SOAP;
- AWS or other Cloud Computing platform would be nice.
- PHP.
We are currently NOT open to candidates that do not match the requirements for example who are skilled in Drupal or other CMS’s than WordPress/Woocommerce/
The company is growing steadily which creates opportunities. In short, a great opportunity to discover and develop your qualities!
6+ years experience
4+ years experience
3+ years experience
2+ years experience
Soft skills
You possess strong verbal and written communication skills and you can work individually, as well as within a team. Being skilled in taking responsibility and a sharp eye for time management are paramount, along with a passion for open source and giving back to the community.
As a person you have seniority (this is not about age;-) Your prefer a structured working style with attention to details. You are easy in connecting and collaborating with other teams members.
English level
You are experienced in working remote for English speaking customers. You know you better communicate too much than too little, with your team, to do your job and deliver your part of the WordPress site. Your level of English conversation is intermediate+. You need to be able to ask questions to verify what you need to build and understand answers and feedback in English. If this type of English communication is a problem you donot fit in this position.
Finally you are a person who is curious and eager to learn and you take initiative. You are easy in connecting and collaborating with other team members.
Listen and lead
Connect and learn
Open book
Strong communicator
Hiring process
Apply and submit at least 4 links to examples of your Frontend and design work, one of which being an open source project.
1st interview with the recruiter
2nd interview with co-Founder client
3rd Possible challenge matching your WordPress skills
Contract
1+ year contract, fulltime (we are looking for fulltime hire for the long term).
Freelance contract includes paid holidays, free on official national holidays in Egypt, sick leave days.
Payment is net (transferal costs are paid by us)
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