Wordpress Development Genius Needed

I am looking for a Wordpress developer who really know their stuff. We are a small agency but we have a lot of internal and external projects. There are more than enough sites that need to be built and customize. There are a few requirements that will be crucial to making sure you are a good fit for this role.

All sites will be built with Gutenberg (with generateblocks or Ultimate addons for Gutenberg) or Oxygen builder. I used to love Elementor, but it is very bad for SEO and I need fast sites that are good for SEO. I do not use WP Bakery / Visual Composer, Divi, Avada, Enfold, or any of the other pre-packaged themes that are out there. If you aren’t an expert with Gutenberg or Oxygen, do not apply. Just to see if you are reading this posting completely, when you apply, make the title of the application (or at the top of the message) either Oxygen or Gutenberg, whichever you are more comfortable with. If you don’t do this, I will know that you don’t pay attention to details and will not be considered at all for the job.

You must know PHP at an expert level. I will need custom work developed, custom plugins made, and layouts created in order to have the best functionality.

Javascript/jquery (or any script variant) should be very natural to you. I know Wordpress uses a lot of it, so we need to manually manipulate it to work to our advantage.

You should know CSS at a very high level as well.

Please understand how to use MySQL or MariaDB. If there are custom work that needs to be done, I want to ensure there is no excessive database load. I can always create another space for a DB, but I need you to know when that needs to happen.

The ability to design clean sites is a bonus, but often there will be a style that you will be given to design to.
I would like you to rate the following as your expertise in your email. This is on a 1-10 scale (10 being the best)

PHP –
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Please note, I have hired on this platform before and have found some great people. I am looking for someone who can work M-F, 9a-5p GMT -8 (We are in California). This is for full time and long term work. The pay will be $700 USD per month for the first 4 months, then $750 for the next 4, and $800 for the next 4. After 1 year, the pay will be $900 per month (and annual raises thereafter).

If you are interested in this position, please reply with your skills, a few example sites, and the title or first line I mentioned above. There is also a test to see if you know your stuff. This is an unpaid test and you will simply be recreating a page from a current site to see your speed and design. If you can make any SEO or page/site improvement recommendations, that will put you at the top of the list.

Please email me your resume and all the information asked for above to me directly at ----------