Overview

We are looking for a talented, process-oriented Expert WordPress Developer and Technical Lead to strengthen our team build on our technical foundation.

The Expert WordPress Developer understands the business outcomes customers expect and works to deliver the product and customer requests on time and within budget while actively participating in the projects production cycle.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

  • Work together with our product team to build and maintain the BuddyBoss products.
  • Contribute by building new features, plugins, fixing issues and constantly improving our products.
  • Assist the customer support team in resolving customer issues in relation to the product.
  • Troubleshoot customer issues, and release new patches.
  • Help in managing the software development, making new product releases, and communicating the information to our customers.
  • Help lead the development and ensure high quality outputs
  • Lead QA — on IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari across PC, Mac, and mobile devices
  • Lead design and code reviews and enforce coding standards
  • Closely oversee the performance of critical tasks such as live site migrations, live site maintenance, emergency fixes and other related

Required Skills & Experience

  • Post Secondary Education, preferably in a technical field
  • 5+ years web application development experience
  • 5+ years PHP
  • 3+ years of WordPress Experience
  • Proficiency with the WordPress Coding Standards, approaches and common APIs.
  • A good understanding of REST best practices
  • Advanced SQL knowledge creating, maintaining and improving performance
  • Server management experience with tools and processes such as cPanel, PHPMyAdmin, DNS, Cron Jobs, and bash scripting
  • Experience with Git and other version control systems
  • Proficiency in HTML/CSS. Experience with modern web standards required (semantic markup, HTML5, mobile web)
  • JavaScript Development, JavaScript Libraries
  • Experience working directly with customers to meet business objectives.
  • Understanding of agile methodologies & principles (scrum, kanban, etc.)
  • Understanding of prototyping
  • Results / Quality / Process oriented
  • Can effectively translate business requirements into features & functional outputs
  • A can-do attitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Skills

  • Experience working with remote teams is a big plus. Our team is mostly distributed with team members in over 10 countries.
  • Experience building on BuddyPress and/or bbPress
  • Experience with frameworks such as Angular, Vue.js, React