WordPress Developer

WordPress Developer

Remote Contract-to-Hire

Depends on the experience. We are looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Developer to join our Engineering team! As a WordPress Developer at, you will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, working with WordPress themes and plugins. You will be expected to write durable, extensible and secure code.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new solution features and functionality
• Maintaining existing applications and executing bug fixes
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites
• Working closely with business, product and engineering resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception through delivery
• Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice and internal coding standards
• Writing unit tests, conducting code reviews and validating code

You Are:

• Laser-focused on customer experience for front-end features, performance and back-end functionality
• Passionate about the latest industry trends and content management systems
• Enthusiastic about development and solving challenging problems with a positive attitude
• Committed, respectful, sincere, trustworthy and conscientious
• An excellent communicator with the ability to effectively interface with all levels and departments on a formal, informal, written and verbal basis
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented and able to work in a team environment
• An avid believer in team collaboration where shared goals and commitments are paramount

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field
• Basic knowledge of the product development life cycle and software development life cycle
• Minimum 3 years experience in the WordPress space
• Minimum 2 years experience in crafting modern PHP
• Exceptional knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
• Experience with WordPress Gutenberg block editor
• Strong understanding of React, Angular and other front-end frameworks
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Knowledge of SAAS, CSCC or LESS preprocessors
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Thorough knowledge of MySQL
• Experience using command line task runners such as Gulp and Grunt
• Comfortable working with browser debugging tools found in Chrome, Firefox and Edge, as well as debugging proxy tools such as Fiddler
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN

Preferred:

• 5+ years experience in WordPress
• 2+ years experience in React
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with server-side technologies such as Redis or Elasticsearch
• Experience in more advanced areas of JavaScript (state management; async operations)

InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007, offers innovative solutions to help clients on Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 13 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enables us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrives our resources to deliver industry leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.