Designer & Developer (WordPress, CMS, PHP)

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TYPE OF WORK

Full Time

SALARY

15000

HOURS PER WEEK

TBD

DATE POSTED

May 29, 2018

JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for:

A Web Designer/Developer with minimum 3+ years commercial experience with Design and Development Wordpress (HTML, CSS), using the latest design techniques and best-practice build techniques.

You'll often be involved in projects from brief to launch and beyond. You need to deliver on new projects as well as existing site updates, maintenance & support. While for few projects you will be provided with sample art or a sketch, there will be times you will create design from scratch, and then use your front-end development skills to build a pixel-perfect website. Other times, you will enhance or refine design elements on an existing site, add enhancements and functionality to sites, or do work in styling content to work within a page template. Should have advanced Wordpress development skills to create or modify sites/themes like Classifieds, eCommerce, Realestate, CMS sites etc

Have plenty of experience delivering custom and template especially CMS based like Word Press websites with best practices (sample of work will be required).

• Ability to translate project briefs into initial concepts and even finished art/projects.
• Be proficient with with Photoshop & Illustrator

You are:
• Able to juggle multiple projects and deadlines at the same time.
• Creative in finding solutions to work around what we have.
• Independent and have strong communication and organisation skills.
• Enthusiastic and understand the dedication needed when working on a start-up project.

Main duties and responsibilities:
• Managing the full project lifecycle, from initial project planning/scoping through to development and deployment and management of live systems
• High quality coding and delivery of projects within the allocated time and budget
• Working alongside the team to write project specifications

Your typical day will involve:
• WebSite Development (in Wordpress).Creating / Customizing Wordpress, Opecart, WooCommerce themes & Plugins, testing and QA revisions of websites pre-launch, and ad-hoc updates and maintenance on existing sites
• Designing & Developing desktop and mobile layouts for web;
• Loading and styling content onto sites;
• Designing and building digital marketing material Including Digital Identity
• Researching, recommending and Implementing appropriate plugins and stock images for sites.
• Conducting pre-flight checklist and site go-live implementations.

Technical abilities required:
• You will be able to demonstrate experience gained building high-traffic websites in Wordpress.
• Experience working, Customising & Creating Plug-ins & Templates.
• Strong coding ability in WordPress, PHP5, MySQL, HTML5, CSS/3 etc
• Experience in JavaScript and jQuery.
• Ability to convert PSD's into HTML.
• Solid skills in AJAX, XML and RSS.
• Experience with PHP-based E-commerce platforms (OpenCart, Woocommerce, Magento)
• Experience of using mobile responsive development frameworks (Bootstrap)
• Experience with 3rd party API integration (payment gateways, social media, Google etc)
• Experience in structuring HTML with SEO considerations
• Understanding of PHP MVC Framework (Laravel)
• Experience of managing domains, DNS and hosted email
• Designing tools like Illustrator or Photoshop is an added advantage

To be considered for this role candidates must posses an excellent understanding of word-press template hierarchy and permalink structure, with a strong understanding of core word-press concepts. You will also have experience with custom post types and custom fields.

You will be required to provide demonstrated experience in delivering a website from design phase into production and posses an understanding of Photoshop slice tool for exporting elements from design into website assets.

This is an urgent position which will go quickly, so if you are an experienced WordPress Developer, please send your CV today!

This is a long term role, so candidates with intentions to work on a long term basis should apply.

If you have skills, or especially certifications, in any of these areas, it would be a big plus and please note that in your reply.

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ABOUT THE EMPLOYER

Contact Person: Mike Flynn

Member since: August 2, 2015

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