Wordpress Developer

About Role: -

As a WordPress Developer at this well-funded start-up, you will design and develop new feature and enhancements to the core augmented reality platform. You may be required to work late on occasions to ensure deadlines for submissions are met.

As a senior member of the team, you will be involved with technology discussions / choices and help to mentor more junior team members, drive Agile TDD best practice and take project ownership. Would you like to be part of a high performing team, within an innovative and truly global company?

Job Description:
• At least two years’ experience with good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• 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 wireframes 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}
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
• 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 plugin.

Responsibilities
• We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Developer to join our IT team! As a WordPress Developer at our company, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.
• We are expecting you to have a strong understanding of latest industry trends and content management systems.

Nice-to-have skills
• Highly proficient in the MS Office suite
• You are a confident, collaborative, and pragmatic communicator – willing and able to provide technical guidance
• Ability to priorities when dealing with multiple deadlines and deliverables.
• Strong written English language skills.
• A high attention to detail with an excellent editing and proofing ability.
• Excellent literacy skills, with an extensive vocabulary.
• Deadline driven with effective time management skills.
• Thrive in a busy environment.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
• Demonstrable effective full web stack developer skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships with people at all levels in an organisation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence and negotiate at all levels both internally and externally.
• Educated to an BE CE standard, or equivalent