Web Development Specialist

The Digital Ring; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

The Digital Ring in Madison, WI is seeking an experienced Web Development Specialist to build, maintain, and optimize branded marketing and e-commerce sites across WordPress and Shopify. You’ll split time between keeping sites fast, secure, accessible, and creating new features from Figma designs.

As the technical voice on the team, you’ll set standards, mentor developers, translate UX decisions, and collaborate with design, copy, digital, and account management to deliver high-quality results.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining WordPress and Shopify sites with focus on performance and security.
• Ability to translate UX/UI from Figma into high-quality builds.
• Experience with ecommerce platforms and integration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining, updating, and troubleshooting existing WordPress and Shopify sites with focus on performance, security, accessibility, and SEO best practices
• Developing and enhancing sites across WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, and BigCommerce within existing themes and frameworks
• Translating UX/UI recommendations from Figma into accurate, high-quality builds with design and digital teams
• Building, testing, and deploying marketing and email integrations (e.g., Klaviyo, Mailchimp)
• Scoping projects with clients and account managers, providing reliable time estimates and flagging risks

Tools

WordPress

WooCommerce

Shopify

BigCommerce

Job description

We're on the hunt for an experienced Web Development Specialist to build, maintain, and optimize the branded marketing and e-commerce websites that anchor our clients' digital presence. As we continue growing our agency, we need a developer who's as comfortable diagnosing a broken checkout flow on a Shopify store as they are scoping a full WordPress build from a Figma file — and who can move between the two without losing a step. Expect the work to split roughly down the middle: about half keeping existing sites fast, secure, accessible, and reliable, and about half building new sites, features, and enhancements.This is a multi-client agency environment, which means you'll move between several projects in a single day. Priorities shift, interruptions happen, and the person who thrives here is the one who can switch gears quickly without dropping quality. In this role, the Senior Web Specialist will demonstrate ownership over their work. We don't want someone who waits to be told what to do; we're looking for an individual with initiative — someone who can pull from the project queue, judge what matters most, and keep work moving toward the finish line.You'll also be the technical voice in the room. That means serving as the go-to resource when a build gets complicated, setting the standards and workflows the rest of the team develops against, and mentoring other developers through code review and knowledge sharing. Just as importantly, it means translating: this role works shoulder-to-shoulder with design, copy, digital, account management, and leadership, so you'll need to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences clearly enough that everyone can make a good decision together.

Other things this role entails:

• Maintaining, updating, and troubleshooting existing WordPress and Shopify marketing and e-commerce sites, with an eye on performance, security, accessibility, and SEO best practices
• Developing and enhancing sites across WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, and BigCommerce — working within existing themes and frameworks, with custom development where the project calls for it
• Translating UX/UI recommendations from Figma into accurate, high-quality builds in close collaboration with our design and digital teams
• Building, testing, and deploying marketing and email integrations, including Klaviyo and Mailchimp
• Scoping projects with clients and account managers: assessing complexity, providing reliable time estimates, and flagging risks, dependencies, and scope creep before they become problems
• Tracking project progress and communicating consistently across teams to keep handoffs smooth and expectations shared
• Establishing, documenting, and upholding development standards and best practices across all web projects
• Supporting other web developers through code review, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
• Keeping organized documentation, assets, and records for both active and completed work
• Staying ahead of web development trends and recommending improvements that strengthen The Digital Ring's web capabilities
• Identifying process improvements that increase efficiency, profitability, and team capacity