Role: WordPress Developer
Duration: 9+ months
Location: Summit, NJ
Job Description :
Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance, and management of Corp and Country affiliate sites on WordPress Network (Multisite) platform and other digital projects as assigned.
The successful candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins.
The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems.
Experience with responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred.
An understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Skills:
- Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using best practice & de facto standard plugins
- Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level
- Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions
- Customizing WordPress to support specific functionality
- Creation of custom post types
- Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards
- Creation of clean, logical, well-documented, and reusable code
- Theme/template integration
- Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) required
- Familiar with AWS LAMP Stack Configuration
- Experience creating multilingual websites
- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
- Use of AJAX / Prototype / script.aculo.us an advantage
- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
- Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
Responsibilities:
- Establishing and guiding the website's architecture
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and/or plugin
- Build websites, prototypes, and applications using the latest front-end and back-end technologies
- Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites
- Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery
- Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice
- Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work in a team environment
- Use common sense at all times and pay close attention to detail
Experience: Minimum 4 years' experience of PHP programming, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, JavaScript, XML/JSON and 3rd party APIs, Cross-platform and cross-browser, Responsive, Web standards and accessibility, Code testing, Security, Deployment
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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