WordPress Front End Developer
Key Responsibilities:
- Converting ideas and designs into technical specifications with novel implementations
- Coding new WordPress themes and plugins from scratch and modifying existing themes and plugins
- Maintaining and administering WordPress installations
- Working with professionally layered Photoshop/Sketch documents to create web optimized images
- Creating responsive layouts in HTML5 and the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework
- Performing SEO optimizations and implementing website statistic tracking and analytics
- Utilizing JavaScript frameworks to implement website functionality (AJAX searching, maps, sliders, etc)
What we are looking for:
- A team player - who is excited by unique challenges and ready to learn
- Self starter who can work with ambiguity
- Excellent organizational skills
- Project estimation/planning skills
- Coders experienced with WordPress theme and plugin development process
- Fluency in JavaScript and experience with DOM manipulation libraries, experience with JavaScript MVC frameworks like AngularJS or React is a plus
- High self QA standards, ability to craft code that is not only functional but also clean and maintainable
Requirements:
- Strong WordPress Development experience (thorough understanding of WordPress APIs, particularly the Plugin API)
- Familiarity with Server Administration fundamentals, comfortable interacting with Linux servers
- Ability to create well-formatted HTML5 layouts, understanding of web standards and Schema.org markup
- Excellent CSS Fundamentals, experience with preprocessor languages like SASS or LESS, experience with CSS Frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap
- Excellent JavaScript, experience with MVC frameworks like AngularJS or React
- Excellent PHP Fundamentals, experience with implementing new features and applications from scratch utilizing PHP Frameworks
- Functional Photoshop and basic image manipulation skills
- Familiarity with Responsive Design techniques and tools
- Fluency in JavaScript and experience with DOM manipulation libraries, experience with JavaScript MVC frameworks like AngularJS or React is a plus
- Familiarity with SEO techniques and tools
- Knowledge of QA best practices
As a Web Developer, you'll collaborate closely with the project manager and the entire cross functional team on a variety of website. You will be translating the designs our designers create into living works of art.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
|
Do NOT contact me with commercial interests
|
