Position: WordPress Developer
Company: Go WP
Category: PHP
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

GoWP's mission is to create happiness by providing exceptional outsourced WordPress services to help agencies grow. Customer happiness and satisfaction is our number one priority and the foundation of all of our services.

In this role, you'll be able to meaningfully contribute to our company culture and growth. We are a fast-growing, transparent organization with a focus on getting things done and delivering the best service possible to our customers. A desire to learn, help, and do is essential.

In this role, you will handle WordPress site build-outs, maintenance, and support for our customers. Projects will involve converting mockups to fully-functional, responsive WordPress sites using page builders. Developers will also provide WordPress maintenance and help desk support -- including plugin and theme updates, content edits, and technical troubleshooting.

Maintaining our standard of quality is paramount in this position and strong communication skills are essential. Please be sure to read this job description thoroughly to determine if you would be a good fit for our team.

**You’re qualified for this role if you have the following skills...**

**WordPress**

- A deep understanding of WordPress and its defined best practices
- An understanding of the structure of a WordPress website from themes and plugins to the requisite files
- Experience installing and configuring WordPress on a blank site
- Knowledge of common WordPress issues and conflicts
- A deep knowledge of the WordPress admin panel

**Front-end**

- The ability to perform front-end development efficiently, optimally, and in a forward-compatible manner
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL
- Experience working with common page builders (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, etc.)

**Back-end**

- A fundamental understanding of back-end development and how WordPress uses the correlative code languages.
- Experience writing custom functions based on those defined in the WordPress Code Reference and knowledge of how/when to use WordPress hooks
- Experience working with and creating WordPress child themes
- Ability to develop custom plugins

**Advanced development**

Ability to define and demonstrate other development skills apart from those listed above. Examples of these other skills include but are not limited to:

- Working with hosting environments
- Configuring third-party integrations
- Developing custom applications for WordPress or other systems
- Experience with CMS other than WordPress
- Knowledge of code languages that aren’t inherently used for WordPress