Position: Full Stack WordPress / WooCommerce Expert
Company: SimilarDev
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are a beauty and lifestyle powerhouse specialized in brand development, retail and ecommerce with a wide portfolio of both self-owned brands and sole distribution brands. With over 20 e-commerce websites, 200 point of sales and over 500 employees BXG is a dynamic company that offers both technical challenges and a young and agile work environment.

We’re seeking for a talented Full Stack WordPress / WooCommerce Expert, who is ready to hit the ground.
As a WordPress/WooCommerce Expert, you’ll work under our CTO to create, upgrade and update responsive websites in WordPress and WooCommerce.
You should have at least 6 years of experience and a solid understanding of the WordPress theme structure, WordPress template hierarchy and the WooCommerce eCommerce platform. The job also includes lending and mentoring a junior developer

**Must haves:**

- STEM academic degree
- Very good written/spoken English (min B2 level)
- 6+ years experience with WooCommerce and WordPress
- 6+ years front-end development, solid project-level experience with WordPress, HTML, CSS
- Knowledge of CSS Preprocessors, and Javascript/jQuery.
- Devops skills, experienced with AWS deployment
- Ability to self-direct, be proactive and take ownership in tasks & projects.
- Expert knowledge of PHP and MySQL
- Highly Skilled in JavaScript
- Experience with APIs (e.g. XML/RESTful)
- Experience maintaining version control using Git
- Understanding of KISS and DRY principles
- Able to handle multiple, sometimes conflicting, priorities

**Qualifications & Skills FRONTEND**

- Excellent knowledge of HTML5/XHTML, XML, AJAX, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS3
- Excellent knowledge of WooCommerce and WordPress
- Strong understanding and experience with SASS
- Experience with responsive design without dependence on frameworks
- The ability to translate PSDs and other assets created by design team into cohesive websites
- Strong sense of visual design
- Deep understanding of front-end optimization techniques
- Knowledge of usability / user experience design is a plus

**BACKEND**

- Strong experience with custom WordPress theme development, including accommodating full user editability, complex layouts, and plugins that require theme customization – we don’t work with prebuilt themes so it is important to have the ability to create complex setups from scratch
- Strong Experience creating custom themes for use with WooCommerce
- Strong Experience with creating custom WordPress plugins is a plus
- Thorough understanding of custom post types and taxonomies
- Expert knowledge of PHP and MySQL
- High Skills and experience in programming security best practices
- Experience with issues in web design & development and accessibility
- Experience with using command line tools on Linux servers
- Involvement in the open source community

**Benefits:**
Interesting project
High salary
Cool team
20 vacation days
10 holidays
Sick leaves