Senior Developer

• We are Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance and management of our affiliate sites on WordPress, Big commerce and Shopify platforms and other digital projects as assigned.
  


• The hired candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins. 
  


• This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics. Should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems.
  


• Experience with responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred. 
  


• Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
  


• Isolating and fixing bugs in our current products and improving overall speed and performance.
  

Requirements

Skills:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins
  


• Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:
  


• Experience working on ecommerce platforms like Big Commerce and Shopify
  


• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
  


• Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
  


• Customising 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 in creating multilingual websites.
  


• Developing wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutions
  


• Good understanding of cross¬-platform and cross-¬browser issues.
  


• 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 understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
  


• 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 formulates 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.
  


• Client-facing demeanour for Training & Support.
  

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience of WordPress, 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
  

Benefits