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Senior Wordpress Developer

Airfleet
Contract
Remote

This is a remote position.

The Senior Developer is an experienced developer that delivers high-quality work. You are able to do your own scoping and working standalone. The Senior Developer reports to the Team Manager.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop technical tasks from simple to complex

  • Handle most of your own scoping

  • Deploy your own tasks

  • Ensure your deliverables are tested and uphold our standards of quality

  • Work self-sufficiently and be capable of researching technical solutions on your own

  • Deliver tasks on time and budget or inform otherwise

  • Review task budget and determine appropriateness

  • Provide timely feedback and status updates

  • Communicate clearly about technical issues

  • Know when challenges need escalation

  • Help integrate new developers into the team (fill the role of buddy for new developers)

  • Keep up to date with latest programming developments


Requirements

Skills/Proficiencies

  • Communication skills

  • Very experienced with git

  • Write reliable and maintainable code

  • Spot poor quality code

For backend developers

  • Knows WordPress inside and out

  • Has worked with the most popular WordPress plugins

  • Extensive hands-on experience with ACF, Yoast, WPML

  • Proficient WordPress developer

  • Experienced with WordPress API

  • Knowledge of the most common hooks and filters

For frontend developers

  • Advanced user knowledge of WordPress

  • Knows the impact of certain WordPress features/plugins on frontend development

  • Experienced with SCSS

  • Is a specialist in CSS and JS

  • Is up to date with the latest CSS/JS techniques