WordPress Developer

️Title: WordPress Developer

Location: Lisbon, Hybrid Remote

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and talented WordPress Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the colour and font choices).

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality.

• 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 plugin.

• Building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.

• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.

• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

• Conducting website performance tests.

• Troubleshooting content issues.

• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in WordPress development.

• Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment and participate fully in agile software development processes.

• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.

• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.

• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites.

• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector,

• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.

• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).

• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.

• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.

• Experience with WordPress debugging and performance optimization.

• Experience with modern build tools and development processes (e.g., npm, webpack, etc.).