Senior WordPress Developer

We seek a candidate who can display:

• Communicating effectively with multiple stakeholders and take ownership & accountability

• manage priorities

• contribute proactively to performance optimisation

• contribute to efficient coding standards

• have experience in custom plugin development

• experienced in React + Gutenberg dynamic block creation

• find ways to increase efficiency

• effective knowledge of unit testing automation

A balance of Front-End, Full-Stack, Back-End and Plug-In specialty across the WordPress engine is desired.

 

Responsibilities:

• Participate in design, code, and test Inspections throughout product life cycle to contribute technical expertise and to identify issues
• Supply work breakdowns, estimates and status updates to project and engagement management
• Understand technical project priorities, implementation dependencies, risks and issues
• Lead EPICs in our agile development process, requiring coordination, direction and mentorship of multiple development resources
• Lead development scrum groups, taking responsibility for the outcome of multiple stories across several developers
• Engage in story planning, negotiating between PM, DEV and QA to derive appropriate stories based on fair compromises between original specifications, technical design, and testing possibilities
• Develop, enhance, document, and maintain WordPress plugins
• Lead development team in architecture and design of new features

 

Required Skills

WordPress

Gutenberg

WordPress Plugins

PHP

JavaScript

React

Node JS

CSS

HTML

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Docker

MySQL

CI/CD

Unit Tests

 

Optional Skills

TypeScript

CircleCi

Performance Optimization

New Relic

WordPress Vip

Cypress/Playwright e2e testing