Senior WordPress Developer - remote

SiteCare
Posted 2 years ago

SiteCare is looking for an experienced and motivated WordPress Developer to join our team. 

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation of knowledge and experience related to WordPress, its internal APIs, and all technologies within the WordPress stack.  

The candidate should also be results-driven, ambitious, organized, articulate and a self-starter. The Senior WordPress Developer will be responsible for feature development, troubleshooting and debugging, as well as expertly communicating results with the rest of the SiteCare team.

This is a full-time, fully remote position. Compensation is dependent upon experience.

For the Senior WordPress Developert team member to succeed in this role, they must embody SiteCare’s four company values in their day-to-day work:
  • Obsessive Communication
  • Deliver 101%
  • Empower Others
  • First Class

Responsibilities
  • Develop complex WordPress plugins, themes, and blocks.
  • Contribute to the improvement of the Development discipline through mentorship and ongoing development of SiteCare best practice SOPs.
  • Debugging 
  • Strategic technical guidance for other developers, our client success team, and our marketing team. 
  • Leverage WordPress APIs and extend the WordPress admin experience.
  • Solve complex problems in simple ways.
  • Balance current projects with incoming tasks, and being able to differentiate between importance and urgency..
  • Engage meaningfully with clients;leading demos and driving discussions.
  • Test solutions across multiple browsers and platforms in a testing environment. Help develop testing protocols and procedures to continuously improve confidence in project delivery.
  • Manage and build deployment pipelines with Buddy

Requirements
  • At least five years experience in Full Stack WordPress web development.
  • Five years of previous Agency experience
  • Project-level leadership experience e.g. leading a team of Developers to solve a complex problem. 
  • Expert skills in: PHP, JavaScript, React, WordPress, HTML, CSS and Git.
  • Experience with troubleshooting tools like Xdebug, Query Monitor, Developer Tools, New Relic, etc.
  • Experience building custom blocks in the Gutenberg block editor.
  • Familiarity and experience with WordPress Multisite and experience working with large Multisite Networks
  • Ability to set up a local environment and expertly debug performance and caching issues across environments.
  • Experience optimizing website performance to improve metrics like PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals
  • Mastery of verbal and written English;ability to communicate professionally with technical and non-technical colleagues and clients.
  • Previous remote working experience

BENEFITS:
  • A market-related salary based on your experience
  • We’re a fully remote team
  • Work from wherever you have access to a fast internet connection.
  • Quarterly profit distributions
  • Quarterly personal development stipend
  • A technology stipend of $2000 every two years