Position: Full Stack WordPress Engineer
Company: Accellabs
Category: PHP
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our R&D team is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Full Stack WordPress Engineer to join an existing team and help us to speed up the development and growth of the eSport News Portal.
   The existing portal is just at the beginning of the development stage and this is the unique opportunity to build a high performing portal from scratch with further transformation to an eSport News Platform.
   You will be closely working with the Product Manager, SEO specialists, UI/UX designer and other WordPress engineers in a Scrum environment. This is a long term (at least 12 months) full-time position.

**Requirements:**

- Experience in frontend development min 4 years (HTML5, CSS, SASS, native JS, JQuery)
- Knowledge of WordPress API
- Experience in WordPress optimization projects
- Experience in website deployment process management
- Experience in PHP min 3 years
- Good communication skills — upper intermediate English is a must
- Knowledge of Git
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle;
- Big plus if you have: some experience in Python (for SEO)
- Ideally, someone who loves esports and competitive gaming

**Responsibilities for the probation period:**

- Optimize site performance (core web vitals)
- Rebuild frontend to allow AB testing
- Add new groups of data-driven landing pages for each game (connections to multiple APIs)
- Build internal linking blocks, and automatic linking to relevant articles
- Features to automatically rewrite/translate and publish articles
- Test your work and provide bug-free deliverables

**Opportunities:**

- To work in a real Scrum environment
- To cooperate with a mature team
- To build product used by worldwide known gamers
- To be a part of a product team and influence decisions
- To share your knowledge and be recognised