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WordPress Developer

Job ID: 8369

25000 - 30000 Per year

Birkirkara, Malta

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Job Description

Company Introduction

Our Client is a leading digital agency based in Malta.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

Designing and implementing new features and functionality;
Development of front-end applications according to the latest standard with strong understanding of ReactJS and its core principles;
Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture;
Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS;
Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin;
Providing training and support to clients in the use of the WordPress CMS;
Able to write complex and performant SQL queries; experience on MySQL preferred;
Able to optimize websites for high scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse.

Experience

The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems;
3 years previous experience in front-end/web development with HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, React and Bootstrap, are a must;
3 years previous experience in WordPress development with PHP, including WordPress theme and plugin development, creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and utilization of action hooks and filter hooks, are a must;
An understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.

Personal Skills

Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery;
Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications;
Experience designing and developing responsive design websites;
Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug and Chrome inspector;
Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers;
Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages;
Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML);
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools;
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.