Website UI/UX Designer/ Developer / WordPress Location: Downey, CA,

ESR Healthcare; Downey (CA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology service organization is seeking a Website UI/UX Designer/Developer specializing in WordPress. In this role, you'll develop and maintain websites, collaborate with multi-functional teams, and ensure service level compliance. The ideal candidate has a bachelor's degree in IT or related field, strong WordPress skills, and experience in collaborative environments. This hybrid position allows a balance between on-site and remote work, offering a dynamic and supportive work schedule.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in building and customizing WordPress websites, themes, and plugins.
• Minimum 2 years with ADA and accessibility tooling/remediation.
• Experience in programming PHP and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain WordPress websites and applications.
• Support and upgrade WordPress core, themes, and plugins.
• Ensure compliance with service level agreements.

Skills

WordPress website design, development, and implementation

PHP

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

React

BASH scripting

DevOps

API technology

Customer service skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT-related or Computer Science field

Tools

GitHub

Open-Source Content Management System

Documentum

Elastic or Algolia

Job description

Website UI/UX Designer/Developer/WordPress

Location: Downey, CA, 90242- Hybrid

Duration: 12+ months Contract

Note: Hybrid work schedule 3 days on site 2 days remote

Job Description

The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) works under the direction of an IT Manager or user agency personnel. This classification specializes in the WordPress website platform and will work as part of a team to provide customers with WordPress hosting and professional services business. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will work with developers, designers, testers, and project managers interfacing with multi-functional IT support groups and will interface with both internal and external customers from various County departments. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will provide WordPress application development, website onboarding and operational support on WPEngine and AWS Openshift platform; participate in new development, onboarding, and operational support of WordPress websites, PHP and Java applications, hybrid mobile apps, and kiosks; support and maintain multiple websites and be responsible for upgrading and patching WordPress core, themes, and plugins; will use the County's standard tools to improve and automate DevOps workflow operations, including WordPress, MySQL, PHP, Apache, Varn / NGINX varnish, WhiteHat security scan, Git; follow the incident, change and problem management procedures using the Cherwell Service Management System; and participate in team meetings and huddles. The WordPress hosting line of business is with a 24/7 operation and must meet a service level agreement of 99.5% up time. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will work from a primary County office but will also connect remotely into the County network to support this operation and adhere to the service level agreement up time.

Skills Required

• WordPress website design, development, and implementation
• Various coding languages, frameworks, operating systems, and platforms including PHP, NodeJS, React, JavaScript, CSS, CLI, BASH scripting, GitHub, Linux, Windows, WP Engine (WPE)
• Open-Source Content Management System (CMS)
• Technology and methodology of API
• WordPress
• Document search tools such as Elastic or Algolia
• Documentum
• Customer service skills
• Ability to collaborate with different levels of team members
• Strong organization and time management
• Oral and written communication skills in English
• Ability to provide feedback and receive critique from design team members and customers
• Practice DevOps and agile methodologies

Experience Required

• Minimum of five (5) years performing all of the building and customizing of WordPress websites, themes and plugins; building natively or using tools such as ACF (Advanced custom fields) to facilitate the creation of blocks, page options and/or theme customization
• Building responsive websites for desktop and mobile devices
• Client side scripting using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery
• Minimum of two (2) years working with ADA and accessibility tooling/remediation
• Using REST or GRAPHQL API
• Hardening WordPress websites and remediating security vulnerabilities
• Perform performance tuning PHP, Apache and MySQL and scripting and running load testing tool
• Programming in PHP and JavaScript
• Minimum of three (3) years installing, configuring and using Open-Source development tools, IDEs, and GIT source control

Education Required

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Computer Science field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.