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ID #20947139
State New York
City New york city
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source Atlantic Partners
Showed 2021-10-10
Date 2021-09-29
Deadline 2021-11-27
Category Web/HTML/info design
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WordPress Developer - Contract

New York, New york city, 10001 New york city USA

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Job Description:We are looking for a talented WordPress developer who has at least 3 years of experience developing WordPress sites and working with front-end and back-end technologies such as HTML/CSS3/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL.

Responsibilities:
  • Designing and building the website front-end.
  • Creating the website architecture.
  • Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
  • Updating WordPress themes and plugins.
  • Conducting website performance tests.
  • Monitoring the performance of the live website.
  • Troubleshooting content issues.
  • Meeting with stakeholders to discuss website design and function.

Education:Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience

Professional Experience:2-3 years professional work experience

Required Skills:
  • The ability to learn quickly
  • The ability to proactively prioritize, manage and complete multiple projects simultaneously within time constraints and with strong attention to detail
  • Exceptional verbal and communication skills
  • Proficiency in the main programming and markup languages of web design, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
  • Understanding how WordPress works in and out.
  • Knowledge of the new WordPress Gutenberg editor and ability to customize it according to editorial needs.
  • Understanding of SEO best practices and how web crawlers, indexing, meta tags, and sitemaps work. And ability to incorporate SEO friendly markup in your code.
  • Thorough knowledge of mobile-first responsive design and developing applications in this manner from early stage.
  • Understanding of business requirements and the ability to effectively communicate your ideas to the stakeholders.
  • Willingness to learn new skills and technologies to adapt to the current trends in modern web design.
  • Great teamwork skills to be able communicate daily and work together closely with other developers.
  • Willingness to take constructive criticism effectively and improve through feedback.
  • Thorough understanding of WordPress themes and plugins architecture and knowledge of how WordPress 'actions' and 'filters' works.
  • HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript
  • Working knowledge of jQuery
  • Experience with modern Javascript (ES5/6) and exposure to the React framework
  • Experience with writing Sass.
  • Experience working with code versioning tools such as GIT and cloud-based hosting services such as Bitbucket and GitHub.
  • PHP 7+/MySQL.
  • Knowledge of how to make HTTP requests to send/receive data (AJAX, cURL, .fetch(), and/or others) with RESTful APIs and associated data formats (JSON, XML).
  • Experience with the WordPress REST API
  • Experience working with JavaScript task runners such as Grunt and Gulp.
  • Experience with the command line – Bash (or other shell), WP-CLI

Preferred skills:
  • Experience working with WordPress hosting providers such as WPEngine.
  • Basic understanding of search engines such as Elastic Search and Algolia

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