Position: Full-Stack Wordpress Developer
Company: Blexr
Experience required: 2y
Category: PHP
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Forming part of one of our Development teams, the Full Stack WordPress Developer owns the challenge of implementing and maintaining modern, innovative and high-performance websites which delight our end users.

Main Responsibilities:
•	Work collaboratively with a small, cross-functional Scrum team, actively participating and contributing to Scrum events as appropriate
•	Write code for user stories, conducting research, design and prototyping as necessary
•	Implement unit tests, automated acceptance tests, and other automated tests as appropriate, and ensure code is checked in to the shared repository daily
•	Implement and maintain WordPress websites
•	Implement and maintain front-end designs in HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and related frameworks and technologies as necessary, and which are faithful to designs provided in Zeplin
•	Write clean PHP code, with or without frameworks as appropriate for the task at hand, as well as efficient SQL queries, with a focus on minimizing technical debt and complexity
•	Implement modular designs, including development of elements as independent files that can be easily changed across the site, allowing us to adapt and A/B test elements with ease
•	Develop and maintain clear and complete documentation as to how the website worked on has been implemented, and how each component works and can be edited
•	Work closely with QA to ensure that each user story satisfies the Definition of Done
•	Provide operational support for website as required
•	Troubleshoot, identify root causes of, and remediate complex technical issues

Skills & Experience:
•	Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
•	Motivated with a collaborative mind-set
•	Well organized with superb attention to detail
•	Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
•	3+ years previous experience in WordPress development with PHP, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and Bootstrap, both frontend and backend, is a must
•	Able to implement WordPress websites which are dynamic and editable in an easy manner
•	Experience with WordPress related frameworks and technologies such as the Sage theme and Blade templates from Roots.io, as well as Webpack and Pug templates would be a plus
•	Able to create external WordPress plugins instead of writing functions inside themes, as well as creating plugins or using existing JSON API importer plugins to import data from our in-house APIs
•	Experience delivering websites with high page speed and optimisation scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse
•	Passion for quality, and knowledge of what it takes to ship high quality code
•	Experience identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues
•	Experience working in a Scrum team or similar Agile environment would be a plus