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Job Summary:
Seeking a skilled and adaptable technical lead to join a fast-paced development culture to design, develop, deploy and maintain WordPress and API solutions.
Essential functions:
- Technical ownership of platform WordPress and API solutions
- WordPress front-end and back-end development, including implementation of themes and plugins
- WordPress back-end database and server integration
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain integration processes between applications, including service oriented and discoverable API services
- Define release pipeline to support quality and continuous code deployments
- Work closely with product managers, product engineers, project managers and business stakeholders as needed
- Troubleshoot production bugs related to system integrations by calmly analyzing issues in high pressure situations and communicating corrective action plans as needed
Competencies:
- WordPress technical experience
- API development experience
- PHP 7.4 technical knowledge
- MySQL technical knowledge
- Experience using Git
- Experience implementing CI\CD pipelines
- Experience with React JavaScript framework a plus
Qualifications:
- Self-starter with an ability to learn new concepts quickly
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with organizing staging-production environment
- Basic understanding of SEO
- Good understanding of website speed performance optimizations
- Good understanding of Web Security Vulnerabilities and best practices
- Experience with agile product development
- Experience with Jira software (or similar platforms) a plus
This is a fully remote position, candidates from European time zones are highly welcome.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.