About the role

We are seeking experienced WordPress Developers who will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development, including creating themes, plugins and managing upgrades. We need a savvy, flexible WordPress superstar, comfortable with scratch-coding in both WordPress and WooCommerce.

As a Full Stack WordPress Developer you will work closely with Design and Product Teams on improving our existing website as well as help build new ones from ground up as our needs grow. Your expertise will help the team in managing priorities, picking tools and plugins, and executing vision for our corporate website and blog.

Whether the goal is to increase conversion of landing pages or engagement of our community your voice will be important in driving the decisions through collaborative processes and transparent communication.

Sound like an exciting opportunity? If so, keep reading; this might be the development environment you have been searching for.

Skills and Experience

• At least 2-5 years WordPress development experience and a solid understanding of the WordPress theme structure and template hierarchy.
• Experience with PHP/MySQL application development and troubleshooting in a live environment
• Front-end skills: HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, other Javascript libraries, Bootstrap and Responsive Design
• Back-end skills: Experience building custom themes, plugins, widgets, WordPress filters, and WordPress hooks
• You should be able to design and develop stand-alone applications, including all frontend, backend, and database layers (including schema)
• Advanced WordPress development, building custom themes and plug-ins
• Monitor/Fix WordPress security issues
• Experience with dev, staging and production environments and migrating between them
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug and/or Chrome inspector
• Develop with regards to SEO, site-load, and usability and accessibility best practices.
• Experience with 3rd party platforms and integration
• Experience in working with and managing Linux Servers
• Ability to interface with developers, designers, marketing, and clients to quickly evaluate and resolve issues
• Strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards.
• Accurately track hours against projects and complete time sheets in a timely manner
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs, including social web services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram either through Javascript API or server-side implementation through RESTful AP
• The ability to handle and fix plugin incompatibilities and know how to resolve issues that arise.

Nice To Have

• CMS and opensource projects like Magento, Joomla!, Drupal
• Experience in AWS
• Familiar with general digital marketing practices
• Cloud hosting platforms such as Amazon Web Services, particularly EC2, RDS and S3.

Qualities and Characteristics

• Organized, with excellent communication skills
• Working well with others in a team environment
• The ability to manage time efficiently; working quickly, across multiple projects and able to prioritize workload appropriately
• Remain current on industry changes, and keep us at the forefront of technological trends (Material Design, Continuous Integration)
• Collaborate in daily meetings, set priorities, and partner with mobile development teams
• Be self-motivated, ego-free and can assist others in getting the most out of their career and their role at Accugile
• General awesomeness

At Accugile, no one works in a box. We nurture and leverage individual talents and encourage our web developers and designers to continually learn and grow. We offer creative freedom, a collaborative and supportive (and fun!) work environment, and an infinite variety of challenging assignments. Each one of our gifted developers and designers contributes unique experience and a fresh perspective to help fulfill our clients’ needs.

We are dedicated to getting people to dream bigger and do more together, and we believe that starts right here with our own team. We are committed to hiring individuals with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs who can use their passion to help us build a world-changing community — and thrive along the way. Join Accugile for the chance to collaborate with an engaged team working provide learning and growth opportunities for all.