Senior Front End WordPress Developer

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Los Angeles
CA
icon-timeDecember 8, 2020

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Our growing personal injury law firm is looking for an Intermediate to Senior Front End Developer with Wordpress and GatsbyJS/React experience to work closely with our digital marketing and tech team. The successful candidate will be able to to show proficiency in the following:

  • Have a thorough understanding of Wordpress fundamentals and how data is stored in page builders
  • Assist in providing migration recommendations
  • Provide “under the hood” recommendations to assist with reducing long build times.
  • Provide insights into how to best utilize gatsbyjs to scale to our needs.
  • Perform code cleanup/potential refactors of components/collections
  • Help wrap up a Wordpress migration into GatsbyJS on NetlifyCMS for Phase 1. Provide alternative CMS options such as Contentful, GraphCMS, or Forestry.io

REQUIREMENTS

  • Strong understanding of web fundamentals such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, SASS/SCSS and Bootstrap.
  • Have actively worked on a heavily SEO trafficked multilang (English and Spanish) Wordpress to GatsbyJS migration
  • Be able to code out fully functional mobile friendly/responsive designs for phone, tablet, desktop with cross/legacy browser functionality (We hate IE/Edge, but it is still very much a thing.) using JAMStack.
  • Basic/intermediate understanding of PHP
    • Write functions
    • Comfortably able to parse/send data using JSON
    • Laravel Experience is a plus
  • Experience creating websites in Wordpress
    • Able to comfortably work in functions.php
  • Experience with basic Version Control (We use GIT on Github)
  • Be able to Multitask – we have a ton going on and sometimes need adjustments made to things on the fly.
  • Strong problem solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
  • Write well commented code
  • Ability to debug code (their own code and code created by others)
  • Ability to complete projects independently or as part of a team environment
  • Highly skilled communicator (in English; both written and spoken)
  • Genuine interest in overall web standards and best practices such as OOCSS, BEM, SMACSS.
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