WordPress Developer, Engineering

The Timberline Group•Saint Louis, MO

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Developer to join our Engineering team! As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, working with WordPress themes and plugins. You will be expected to write durable, extensible and secure code.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field
Basic knowledge of the product development life cycle and software development life cycle
Minimum 3 years’ experience in the WordPress space
Minimum 2 years’ experience in crafting modern PHP
Exceptional knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
Experience with WordPress Gutenberg block editor
Strong understanding of React, Angular and other front-end frameworks
Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
Knowledge of SAAS, CSCC or LESS preprocessors
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
Thorough knowledge of MySQL
Experience using command line task runners such as Gulp and Grunt
Comfortable working with browser debugging tools found in Chrome, Firefox and Edge, as well as debugging proxy tools such as Fiddler
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN

Nice To Haves

5+ years’ experience in WordPress
2+ years’ experience in React
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Experience with server-side technologies such as Redis or Elasticsearch
Experience in more advanced areas of JavaScript (state management; async operations)

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing new solution features and functionality
Maintaining existing applications and executing bug fixes
Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites
Working closely with business, product and engineering resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception through delivery
Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice and internal coding standards
Writing unit tests, conducting code reviews and validating code

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