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WordPress Developer, Engineering

The Timberline Group
  • Saint Louis, Missouri
  • Autofill and Review
30+ days ago

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Developer to join our Engineering team! As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, working with WordPress themes and plugins. You will be expected to write durable, extensible and secure code.Responsibilities:
  • Designing and implementing new solution features and functionality
  • Maintaining existing applications and executing bug fixes
  • Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
  • Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites
  • Working closely with business, product and engineering resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception through delivery
  • Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice and internal coding standards
  • Writing unit tests, conducting code reviews and validating code
You are:
  • Laser-focused on customer experience for front-end features, performance and back-end functionality
  • Passionate about the latest industry trends and content management systems
  • Enthusiastic about development and solving challenging problems with a positive attitude
  • Committed, respectful, sincere, trustworthy and conscientious
  • An excellent communicator with the ability to effectively interface with all levels and departments on a formal, informal, written and verbal basis
  • Self-motivated, goal-oriented and able to work in a team environment
  • An avid believer in team collaboration where shared goals and commitments are paramount
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field
  • Basic knowledge of the product development life cycle and software development life cycle
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in the WordPress space
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in crafting modern PHP 
  • Exceptional knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
  • Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
  • Experience with WordPress Gutenberg block editor
  • Strong understanding of React, Angular and other front-end frameworks
  • Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
  • Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
  • Knowledge of SAAS, CSCC or LESS preprocessors
  • Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
  • Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
  • Thorough knowledge of MySQL
  • Experience using command line task runners such as Gulp and Grunt
  • Comfortable working with browser debugging tools found in Chrome, Firefox and Edge, as well as debugging proxy tools such as Fiddler
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN
Preferred:
  • 5+ years’ experience in WordPress
  • 2+ years’ experience in React
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with server-side technologies such as Redis or Elasticsearch
  • Experience in more advanced areas of JavaScript (state management; async operations)

Numbers & Facts

LocationSaint Louis, Missouri

Skills

  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)unmatched
  • Code Reviewsunmatched
  • Coding Standardsunmatched
  • Command Lineunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)unmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Customer Experienceunmatched
  • Customer Relationsunmatched
  • Debugging Skillsunmatched
  • Debugging Toolsunmatched
  • Elasticsearchunmatched
  • Gitunmatched
  • Google Chrome Browserunmatched
  • HTML5unmatched
  • Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
  • Internet Applicationunmatched
  • JSONunmatched
  • JavaScriptunmatched
  • Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
  • MySQLunmatched
  • PHP Scripting Language (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)unmatched
  • Performance Managementunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Product Developmentunmatched
  • Product Engineeringunmatched
  • Product Lifecycleunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • React.jsunmatched
  • Redisunmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
  • Subversionunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Technical Leadershipunmatched
  • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Unit Testunmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
  • Web Browsersunmatched
  • Web Client Plug-insunmatched
  • Web Designunmatched
  • Wordpressunmatched
  • XML (EXtensible Markup Language)unmatched
  • jQueryunmatched

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