Full-Stack Developer

We are an elite team of web designers and digital marketers who help small businesses compete with multi-billion dollar financial firms. We do this with custom websites and digital marketing services that help ethical financial service providers grow online. 

You Will Be Joining An ESTABLISHED Business That Is An AUTHORITY In Their Niche With An EXISTING customer Base.

• I’m hiring you so that we can continue to expand our team with specialists who wear fewer hats, you will allow our current developer to focus on front-end development work

• You will take over and manage a number of backend tasks and processes to ensure our client sites are delivered quickly, securely, and with as little downtime as possible. 

• You’ll be responsible for the loading speed, stability, and ongoing maintenance of WordPress sites. 

• You’ll build a framework of systems, processes, and tools to improve your efficiency. 

• Mostly you will be building the fastest websites we can where you will understand and take steps to improve the issues reported by PageSpeed Insights.

You Will Be…

• Resolving issues from page speed insights such as:

  • Setting explicit width and height within CSS for images

  • Reducing unused JS & CSS scripts

  • Eliminating render-blocking resources

• Working with a team remotely in a culture that started before COVID

• Administering DNS, CDN, and Caching providers

• Delivering world-class website performance

• Exceeding the expectations of our customers and ensuring we deliver a product that makes them think we are doing something no one else can. 

• Migrating to and setting up management of client projects on WP Engine

You Need to Be…

• An expert in website speed optimization and website administration as it relates to Domains, CDN

• Able to demonstrate your ability to deliver websites that have scored above 90 on both mobile and desktop for PageSpeed

• Familiar with debugging and associated tools

• Familiar with Google Page Speed Modules for Apache and Ngnix

• Comfortable working in any hosting environment but specifically WP Engine

• Available if something urgent comes up that needs your attention. Not often, but sometimes things arise outside of typical 9-5 hours and when they are urgent we need it tended to within a few hours.

It would be great if you…

• Can take charge of Analytics, both internally and for clients by:

  • Setting up Google Analytics

  • Building dashboards and reports for marketing teams to use

• Could build a process so that future project deployments are automated, so we can build a scalable agency.

• Are an expert at SEO to improve the reach of our agency and our clients.

I’m Not Going To Teach You But I Will Expect You To…

• Hold the client websites that you’ve developed to a high standard that you enforce and protect

• Able to communicate effectively and clearly with non-technical audiences

• Have a mastery of the English language (written and spoken)

• Understand your own personality—Be exceptionally organized, and creative and take feedback from customers positively to provide the best product

• Highly picky about deadlines and moving projects forward in a way that doesn’t compromise the quality

• Be able to handle stress well and enjoy a fast-moving team that occasionally fails but most of the time knocks projects out of the park

Terms:

This is a remote position. You’ll go through an onboarding process that will last 2-3 weeks, depending on how fast you want to go. Your compensation will be hourly. As you become more efficient, your hourly rate will increase. 

To Apply For This Position...

To apply for this position, please click the link below and fill out the application:

👉️ https://forms.gle/gkQzHNL84kHFMv4H9 

Talk soon,

Greg Wilnau & the WD Team