WordPress Developer

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.

·         This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).

·         The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems.

·         Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred.

·         Also, 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 the best practice & de¬facto standard plugins

·         Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:

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

·         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.

·         eveloping wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutionsD

·         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 wire-frames 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.

·         Client-facing demeanor for Training & Support.

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.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.

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