Back-end WordPress & WooCommerce Developer

Freshy, a leading NY- and DC-based WordPress web design agency, is looking to hire a remote, full-time backend WordPress developer

Roles and responsibilities

• The candidate must have deep experience in web development and be highly motivated to do exceptional work

• Customizing the functionality of WordPress based websites by implementing new functionality, often via code or additional plugins

• Working with the Freshy support team to add features requests to client websites

• Working with the Freshy project managers and development team to implement creative solutions to solve functionality requests during development of new websites

• Assisting with importing and exporting large amounts of data — such as users, custom post types, WooCommerce products, orders, etc. — sometimes on a recurring basis via cron jobs

• Customizing the WooCommerce functionality — including product pages, filtering, shopping cart, checkout, subscriptions, etc.

• Implementing custom animations and other heavily-modified user interface (UI) designs

• Architect and develop new backend features and plugins, custom functionality, and theme integration

• Customizing/overriding WordPress core and plugin functionality via included hooks

• Implementation of 3rd party APIs into WordPress websites

• Taking initiative and approaching projects with a confident and positive attitude

• Clean, understandable, and well-documented/commented code

• Management of the website back-end including database and server integration

• Creating custom WordPress plugins as needed

• Troubleshooting performance issues and implementing fixes

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in a simple and understandable way

Requirements

• 5+ years backend-end WordPress development experience

• 5+ years of WooCommerce experience

• WordPress theme and plugin customization experience

• Tech stack includes CSS3, HTML5, advanced jQuery, advanced PHP 8, JSON, SQL

• Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git and SVN

• Knowledge of Composer, NPM, and other build process tools a plus

• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs preferred

• Experience using the command line, SSH, WP-CLI preferred

• Experience writing code with a focus on security and performance

• Deep understanding of WordPress core

• Familiarity with React and WordPress block editor a plus

• Search engine optimization experience preferred

• Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager experience preferred

• WPML, ADA, and GDPR knowledge is a plus

• Excellent problem solving skills

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent time management, including flexibility with shifting priorities and multiple deadlines

• Ready to work in a fast paced environment

Job Type

Freelance contract position with potential for full time employment.

Salary

• Based on experience

Location

• This is a remote work position with working hours based on Eastern Time Zone (ET)