Senior WordPress Developer
| Location | CPT - Northern Suburbs, South Africa |
| Date Posted | September 2, 2020 |
| Category |
Software Development
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
Our client based in the Northern Suburbs has an exciting new Senior WordPress Developer role available. The purpose of the role will be to ensure that the team has the technical support to execute digital projects to the highest standard, improving customer value and internal efficiency through quality, innovative tools, and best practice methods.
Duties & Responsibilities
Requirements:
- Taking ownership, using initiative and strong attention to detail with an eye on ensuring good consistency
- High quality documented code output
Proficient understanding of front-end web technologies, including:
- HTML 5 & CSS3
- Preprocessors like SCSS, LESS, etc.
- Good experience with Javascript and jQuery
- ReactJS, both building new components and supporting and contributing to an existing library
- PHP and MySQL
- WordPress templating system
- WordPress eco-system and best practices
- CSS frameworks like Bootstrap
- Frontend build tools and processes
- Version control like GIT
Understanding of:
- Static site generators
- CI / CD process
- Design systems
- DevOps
Responsibilities:
- Implement standard-compliant code for user-facing websites.
- Responsible for the efficient running of the company website and their ongoing maintenance, security & deployment.
- Adapt the best techniques and practices to optimize the website's functioning and load time.
- Build layouts from designers, including working with the designers and the UX team to ensure that layouts are technically feasible and delivered to spec.
- Contribute to a reusable marketing UI Kit, which forms part of the company design system.
- Buy into the broad vision and road map of the marketing team’s digital assets.
- Work with the frontend guild within the organization to ensure consistency across the company ecosystem.