Wordpress Developer

About Us:

Founded in 2010, Social Firm is a team of expert digital marketers and designers who combine passion, technology, and creativity in our mission of helping companies of all sizes to succeed online, engage with their customers, and achieve long-term business success through beautiful web design, cohesive branding, and digital marketing services.

About The Job:

Social Firm is seeking an experienced WordPress Developer with a strong emphasis on technical proficiency. The ideal candidate should be proactive, creative, organized, and a team player. They should possess a deep understanding of WordPress development, including themes, plugins, and optimization for performance and security. The responsibilities include website design and development and maintenance, collaboration with design and marketing teams, technical documentation, and ensuring quality control processes. We highly prefer this position to be onsite with some flexibility.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop and maintain WordPress-based websites, themes, plugins and components for Social Firm and its clients

Maintain servers and fulfilling web-hosting related requests for our clients

Optimize website performance and maintain proper security

Manage hosting platform and launch sequence of new website projects

Collaborate with design team to create pixel-perfect, responsive websites from Photoshop files and/or Figma/xD prototypes

Create and maintain documentation for project management and SOP creation

Requirements:

Minimum 2 year degree in website development or related degree, or equivalent hands-on experience

4+ years experience with WordPress

Proficiency in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, PHP, MySQL / MariaSQL, jQuery

Experience with e-commerce (i.e., WooCommerce)

Experience with Advanced Custom Fields implementation

Fluency with core site aesthetics and element arrangement on screen

Strong creative and visual problem solving skills, attention to detail!

Comfortable working with debugging tools

Strong desire to learn new technologies and keep up with industry trends

Bonus Points:

SEO experience, proficiency & understanding of signals and their influence

Experience with wireframe design

Gutenberg, native wordpress block theme experience and block creation interest

Experience with building or extending a wordpress plugin

DIVI Builder Experience

ReactJS experience

Perks:

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid holidays

401K with company match

Group Healthcare Insurance w/ company sponsored contribution

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