Front-end WordPress Developer

We are looking for a team player excited to become part of our team and grow within the company. Attitude and fitting in our company culture are more important than skill-set.

We seek a team player with excellent critical thinking and good English skills (mainly Reading and Writing).
You need to be an autonomous doer that gets stuff done and is happy to make decisions on your own.

We are on a mission to help NFP organisations to fulfil their goals, and this role is pivotal to our and our client's success. You'll be planning, architecting and building high-performance, accessible websites for some of the best organisations in Australia.

This role would suit someone with commercial experience as a web developer, ideally in multiple platforms, including WordPress.

You'll work with a team of other 3 developers in a remote environment and report to our Tech Upgrade to see actual infot negotiable:

????? Good English skills (mainly written - spoken is a big plus)
????? Able to effectively estimate tasks and projects
???? Excellent testing, QA and self-management skills
????? Critical thinking and autonomous
????? Clean, safe code

Your daily tasks would include
???? Front-end - building custom themes from scratch (60% work)
???? Back-end - building custom themes functions and hooks (10% work)
???? Support tasks, small website improvements (20%)
???? Project management, tasks estimations, discovery (10%)

Responsibilities

- Perform monthly support requests from clients (through the support ticket centre)
- Develop custom WordPress themes for new client projects.
- Develop and manage custom and complex WordPress-based solutions.
- Create or customize plugin features to client websites (WordPress)
- Managing all technical aspects of the WordPress CMS.
- Work to resolve issues related to WordPress websites and client hosting
- Assist in maintaining client’s website speed performance and security.
- Providing coaching and leadership to other members of the team on processes and best practices.
- Helping to create a scalable development process.

Experience:

You should have 3+ years of web development, both front and back end, specifically with WordPress and WooCommerce.

The Developer will work with our project manager and lead developer to help design and implement high-performance, accessible products and experiences.

You should be comfortable using some internal communication tools such as Clickup, Google Drive, Zoom, and Slack for teaUpgrade to see actual infoetings and to support other teaUpgrade to see actual infombers with any technical request.

You should have strong communication skills, also be confident enough to push back on the leadership team and express your opinion if you think the ship is heading off course.
We encourage that.

? PHP and Object-Oriented languages
? HTML 5, CSS
? JQuery / JS Libraries
? SASS
? SSH Experience
? GIT (including branching), Version control and local environment setup
? Responsive Interface design
? Cross-browser compatibility issue resolution

A bonus if you also have (all or any of those points):
???? Experience with Drupal, Joomla or other CMS
???? Headless CMS experience (Vue, Gridsome etc)
???? Experience creating Gutemberg Blocks from scratch (ReactJS)
???? Woo-Commerce experience

How We Will Help You Succeed

We have an extremely supportive team, we help each other, and we want you to succeed in this role. We will provide any additional training you may need to get on board and hit the ground running.

We're not going to teach you how to do your job because your past experience will serve you well. We will help you build your professional portfolio.

However, we will train you regarding our systems, products, and customers so you can apply your skills to help us achieve our mission.

We will also listen to you, see you for who you are, and encourage you to bring your entire self to work. We are humans first, work colleagues second.

Employment Type

We are looking for a full-time remote employee, able to work from 10am - 6pm AEST timezone.