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- Algorithm Innovative Solutions, a sister company of Dimensions International, working in the field of software and mobile apps development. The company is seeking to hire..
- WordPress Developers: Responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).
- The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred. Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing new features and functionality.
- 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.
- Develop, test and implement high-end performance WordPress themes across multiple browsers, platforms, and devices, including smartphones and tablets.
- Analyzing, and validating the business specifications in order to deliver a comprehensive solution.
- Devising a full plan for work, establishing milestones and deadlines to achieve objectives.
Job Requirements
Essential Skills:
- (3 – 5) Years of experience in WordPress themes and plugins development. Developing custom themes.
- Setting up custom fields, using inside templates and WordPress options API.
- Setting up custom post types, custom taxonomies and using inside templates.
- Implementing plugins when plugins are ideal (and knowing when they aren’t).
- Setting up and extend options and themes frameworks such as Redux Framework and Unyson Framework.
- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wire-frames into working HTML pages and building UI’s to specifications based on provided PSD mockups.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap and/or Zurb Foundation HTML5 frameworks.
- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites while understanding CSS & JavaScript changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
- Implementing 3rd-party libraries and basic APIs.
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools specially Git is a Must.
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development for different PHP versions.
- Good knowledge of MySQL databases.
- Possess an advanced knowledge of web and mobile UX/UI and extrapolate complex design systems and apply to coded pages, screens, and states.
Ideal Additional Skills:
- Using a task-runner (Grunt/Gulp) is a Plus.
- Using WordPress scaffolding tools such as WP-CLI is a Plus.
- Familiarity with software testing, unit testing, functional testing and Test-driven development (TDD).
- Familiarity with Agile Fundamentals.
- Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
- Familiarity with NodeJS and MongoDB is a Plus.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue.js …etc.) is a Plus.
- Have an excellent attitude for interpersonal relationships and multicultural environments.