Position: Senior WordPress Dev
Company: North Coast Auto Group
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:
- Writing high quality production-ready code, paired with automated tests
- Ownership/execution of features with critical business impact and reach
- Ensure adherence to best practices
- Identify technical gaps and bottlenecks on the team and work to solve them
- Partner with Principal Engineers, Management, and Architects to design systems and ensure accuracy during development
- Function as team lead for an area of the platform or during cross-functional initiatives
- Work closely with devops/systems for capacity planning and infrastructure needs
**ABOUT YOU**:
You value code quality, scalability, and reliability. You are not beholden to one language, design pattern, or framework, but instead you believe that a true craftsman always chooses the right tool for the job. You understand business value and are all about creating it. You value working on a team with other developers, and communicate complex ideas with ease. You love learning and experimenting with new technologies but would never neglect the fundamentals.

**Required Skills & Experience**:
6+ years of experience working with PHP
6+ years of experience working with MySQL or Similar RDBMS
3+ years of experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
Experience leading projects or functioning as a scrum team lead
Expert understanding of job queue/messaging systems
Expert understanding of REST APIs
Expert understanding of build processes/automation
Expert understanding of software design patterns
Capable of discerning high-level business goals and mapping them into a technical domain
Strong verbal & written communication skills
Ability to solve/triage complex issues across many components of a production system
Strong documentation skills
Highly organized and detail-oriented
Experience working remotely & as part of a distributed engineering team
Advanced understanding of Agile methodologies and concepts

**Preferred**:
Experience building/maintaining plugins for WordPress
Experience working in an Agile environment