Website Developer (WordPress)

The Role

We are looking for a skilled, experienced, and creative WordPress Developer to join our growing team and take the lead in managing and maintaining our portfolio of client websites.

To be considered for this role, ALL applicants must include a resume with a minimum of 3-5 examples of the most impressive and/or complex WordPress sites you’ve built from scratch yourself.

As our sole WordPress Developer, you’ll be responsible for the full maintenance and management of our clients’ WordPress sites—including updates, troubleshooting, optimization, and custom development. You'll collaborate closely with project managers, WebFlow development team, and graphic designers to ensure a seamless and easy experience for our clients.

General Responsibilities

Manage and maintain a variety of WordPress websites

Implement client-requested changes including content updates, new pages/sections, and design tweaks

Troubleshoot site issues and implement solutions quickly and effectively

Proactively look for potential user, device, and security issues on our sites

Perform regular updates to plugins, themes, and WordPress core

Ensure all sites are secure, responsive, and optimized for speed

Collaborate with the design and content team to build new pages or sections

Set up staging environments and manage deployments when needed

Monitor uptime, performance, and backups across all hosted properties

Recommend improvements for functionality, UX, and scalability

Technical Skill Requirements

Experience: 5+ years of professional experience with WordPress development and maintenance

Languages: Proficiency with PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WordPress APIs

Page Builders: Must be proficient with tools like Elementor, WPBakery, or Gutenberg

Themes: Must be able to modify child themes, work with templates, and build themes from scratch

Plugin Management: Confident in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and updating plugins when needed.

Staging & Hosting: Must be comfortable with staging environments and cPanel/hosting platforms

SEO: Understands technical SEO (like sitemaps, meta tags, schema) and how site structure affects ranking.

Site Speed Optimization: Can diagnose and fix slow sites using caching, image compression, and code cleanup.

Security Best Practices: Familiar with securing WordPress sites (firewalls, permissions, malware scans, etc.)

Functionality: Knowledge of advanced custom fields (ACF), custom post types, etc

Analytics: Familiarity with site analytics and performance tracking tools (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console)

Design: Ability to develop a page that perfectly matches a high-fidelity design provided by a designer. Also able to create subsequent pages or sections matching the aesthetic of the rest of the site without an exact design to follow.

DNS & Domain Management: Ability to update DNS records, set up redirects, and launch sites properly.

Soft Skill Requirements

Task Management: Organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks and sites with varying levels of complexity at the same time. Must work within an already established project management system.

Communication: Can communicate and explain technical points to non-technical clients in a way they can understand and make sense of to make decisions.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Works well with project managers, designers, copywriters, advertisers, and SEO strategists

Solution-minded: Able to solve problems and provide a clear solution for the client

Nice to Have

Agency Experience: Experience working with marketing or creative agencies

WebFlow: Familiar with WebFlow (needs to be willing to learn)

Version Control: Familiarity with Git or platforms like GitHub/Bitbucket is a plus

About Us

Grit & Gravel is a comprehensive fractional marketing department, or marketing agency, that partners with clients across diverse industries throughout the US. We provide marketing, branding & advertising solutions that include website design and development, SEO, digital and traditional advertising, video and photo content, email marketing, social media, design and branding services, copywriting, fractional CMO services, etc.

Why Join Us?

Fast-paced and growing company

Incredible opportunity for personal career growth

Fun, creative, and collaborative office environment

The opportunity to be the top at your own department and make a clear impact across multiple brands