Roles and responsibilities include:
- The candidate must have deep experience in web development and be highly motivated to do exceptional work
- Customizing the functionality of WordPress based websites by implementing new functionality, often via code or additional plugins
- Working with the FreshySites support team to add features requests to client websites
- Working with the FreshySites project managers and development team to implement creative solutions to solve functionality requests during development of new websites
- Assisting with importing and exporting large amounts of data — such as users, custom post types, WooCommerce products, orders, etc. — sometimes on a recurring basis via cron jobs
- Customizing the WooCommerce functionality — including product pages, filtering, shopping cart, checkout, subscriptions, etc.
- Implementing custom animations and other heavily-modified user interface (UI) designs
- Architect and develop new backend features and plugins, custom functionality, and theme integration
- Customizing/overriding WordPress core and plugin functionality via included hooks
- Implementation of 3rd party APIs into WordPress websites
- Taking initiative and approaching projects with a confident and positive attitude
- Clean, understandable, and well-documented/commented code
- Management of the website back-end including database and server integration
- Creating custom WordPress plugins as needed
- Troubleshooting performance issues and implementing fixes
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts in a simple and understandable way
Requirements:
- 5+ years backend-end WordPress development experience
- 5+ years of WooCommerce experience
- WordPress theme and plugin customization experience
- Tech stack includes CSS3, HTML5, advanced jQuery, advanced PHP 8, JSON, SQL
- Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git and SVN
- API integrations and experience with SSH protocol preferred
- Experience writing code with a focus on security and performance
- Familiarity with the WordPress Codex
- Familiarity with the GSAP animation library
- Search engine optimization experience preferred
- Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager experience preferred
- WPML, ADA, and GDPR knowledge is a plus
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent time management, including flexibility with shifting priorities and multiple deadlines
- Ready to work in a fast paced environment