Job Type: Contractual (On-Call Basis)

Location: 100% remote. WFH Only

Roles And 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 frontend 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.
• Client-facing demeanour for Training & Support.

Requirements:

• Experience in supporting development, maintenance and management of sites on WordPress and other digital projects as assigned.
• Programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).
• 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.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• 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.
• Developing wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutions.
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
• 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 understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
• 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.

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