Job Description :
Job Title: Wordpress Developer
Location: Summit,NJ
Duration: 7 Months
Description:
Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance and management of Corp and Country affiliate sites on WordPress Network (Multisite) platform and other digital projects as assigned. The successful candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred. Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Responsibilities:
Designing and implementing new features and functionality
Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and/or plugin.
Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest front¬end and back-end technologies
Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
Self¬motivated, goal¬oriented and able to work in a team environment.
Use common sense at all times and pay close attention to detail.
Committed, enthusiastic, sincere, trustworthy and conscientious.
Client-facing demeanor for Training & Support.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively interface with all levels and departments on a formal, informal, written and verbal basis.
Experience:
Minimum 4 years experience of PHP programming, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, JavaScript, XML/JSON and 3rd party APIs, Cross-platform and cross-browser, Responsive, Web standards and accessibility, Code testing, Security, Deployment
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.
Skills:
Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de¬facto standard plugins
Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:
Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
Customizing WordPress to support specific functionality
Creation of custom post types.
Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.
Creation of clean, logical, well ¬documented and reusable code.
Theme/template integration.
Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) required.
Familiar with AWS LAMP Stack Configuration
Experience creating multilingual websites.
Developing wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutions
Good understanding of cross¬-platform and cross-¬browser issues.
Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
Use of AJAX / Prototype / script.aculo.us an advantage.
Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wire-frames into working HTML pages
Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
Must be self-motivated and directed.