WordPress Developer

Artech Infosystems Ltd.; Summit (NJ); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider in Summit, NJ is seeking an experienced WordPress Developer to support the development and maintenance of affiliate sites on WordPress Network. Responsibilities include back-end and front-end development, architecture establishment, and ensuring high performance. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of PHP experience, strong knowledge of WordPress, and is proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This position offers an opportunity to work on dynamic digital projects in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, and JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of WordPress Multisite and customizing WordPress functionality.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and guide the website's architecture.
• Ensure high-performance and availability of the CMS.
• Build prototypes and applications using front-end and back-end technologies.

Skills

WordPress CMS

PHP

MySQL

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

RESTful APIs

Responsive Design

Git

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields

Job description

WordPress Developer

Duration: 9+ months
Location: Summit, NJ

Job Description

• Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance and management of Corp and Country affiliate sites on WordPress Network (Multisite) platform and other digital projects as assigned.
• The successful candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins.
• The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems.
• Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred.
• Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.

Skills

• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de¬facto standard plugins
• Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:
• Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
• Customizing WordPress to support specific functionality
• Creation of custom post types.
• Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.
• Creation of clean, logical, well ¬documented and reusable code.
• Theme/template integration.
• Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) required.
• Familiar with AWS LAMP Stack Configuration
• Experience creating multilingual websites.
• eveloping wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutionsD
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Use of AJAX / Prototype / script.aculo.us an advantage.
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites.
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wire-frames 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)
• Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.

Responsibilities

• 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/or plugin.
• Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest front¬end and back-end technologies.
• Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
• Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
• Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
• Self-motivated, goal oriented and able to work in a team environment.
• Use common sense at all times and pay close attention to detail.

Experience

Minimum 4 years' experience of PHP programming, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, JavaScript, XML/JSON and 3rd party APIs, Cross-platform and cross-browser, Responsive, Web standards and accessibility, Code testing, Security, Deployment

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.

Additional Information

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