Full Stack PHP WordPress Developer

Forming part of one of agile teams, the Full Stack PHP WordPress Developer owns the challenge of building and maintaining modern, innovative, and high-performance websites which delight our end users.

Responsibilities:


Work collaboratively with a small, cross-functional agile team, actively participating and contributing to agile events as appropriate
Support product discovery through implementation of prototypes and similar techniques for fast, inexpensive learning
Support product delivery by building, testing, and releasing production quality WordPress websites utilizing best engineering practices
Implement and maintain front-end designs in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related frameworks and technologies as necessary, and which are faithful to designs provided in Zeplin or similar tools
Write simple, clean and secure PHP code, as well as efficient SQL queries, with a focus on minimizing technical debt and complexity
Implement unit tests and other automated tests as appropriate.
Refactor, optimize and improve existing code for better maintainability and scalability, and to reduce technical debt in general
Develop and maintain clear and complete documentation
Test own work with a view to minimal work items being returned for defects to be fixed, while working closely with QA to ensure that any defects are promptly resolved
Provide operational support for applications and websites when so required
Troubleshoot, identify root causes of, and remediate complex technical issues

Requirements:


Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
Motivated with a collaborative and growth mindset
Committed to a culture of trust, transparency and accountability
Well organized with superb attention to detail
Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
Has a passion for quality, and knowledge of what it takes to ship high quality code
Dedicated to speed of delivery without compromising quality
Equally comfortable developing both Backend and Frontend
Knowledge of Git or Git-based code repository systems
3+ years previous experience in front-end/web development with HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, React and Bootstrap, are a must
2+ years previous experience in WordPress development with PHP, including WordPress theme and plugin development, creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and utilization of action hooks and filter hooks, are a must; experience building custom Gutenberg blocks would be awesome
Able to write complex and performant SQL queries; experience on MySQL preferred
Comfortable both consuming and implementing RESTful APIs in PHP
Knowledge of PHP template engines such as Twig, Mustache or Blade (preferred)
Experience or knowledge in any of the following would be an asset: Node.js, Webpack, Composer, Yarn, WP-CLI; experience with Sage and Bedrock by Roots.io would be awesome
Able to optimize websites for high scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse
Demonstrates a mindset of “quality is everyone’s responsibility”, with experience writing unit tests in PHPUnit, as well as JavaScript test frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest, Jasmine or similar
Experience troubleshooting complex production issues

to be discussed