WebCause Inc. is looking to hire talented and motivated WordPress Team Lead with experience of working on Themeforest and developing custom WordPress plugins from scratch.
If you are a senior WordPress developer with leadership skills and looking to step up your game, Apply Now!
About us
We’re a friendly group of WordPress designers, developers, testers, and marketers having a great time building all things WordPress. We live WordPress and we breath WordPress.
Leadership Responsibilities:
Own the entire development methodology process at WebCause.
Mentor, train, manage and lead a team of junior to mid-level developers.
Contribute technically and lead the development team ensuring end-to-end delivery with technical excellence.
Review code for technical accuracy, performance and standards.
Create, manage and maintain documentation for projects and development workflow.
Work as a bridge between the management and team for task and deadline management and delivering on project milestones.
Development Responsibilities:
Develop custom and commercial WordPress themes from scratch for clients / WordPress repository and Themeforest.
Develop custom WordPress plugins from scratch.
Develop themes and plugins for WooCommerce.
Develop custom Gutenberg blocks and plugins.
Customize existing plugins and add features as per requirement.
Integrate complex third-party APIs including REST and GraphQL.
Custom integration of payment gateways and shipping APIs in WooCommerce.
Create solutions for complex frontend and backend issues in WordPress themes and plugins
Required Experience:
5+ years of proven experience as a WordPress developer on production sites.
1+ years of experience leading WordPress development team.
Proven experience developing commercial themes and plugins for themeforest and WordPress repository.
Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress sites.
Experience architecting and writing your own plugins and frameworks.
Portfolio website and/or samples of past work and completed projects.
Frontend Technologies:
HTML5 / CSS3 / SASS / LESS
Javascript / jQuery / AJAX
Responsive Design / CSS3 & SVG Animations
Retina Displays / Cross Browser Compatibility / Pixel Perfection
React JS / Gutenberg Blocks
Node JS / Composer / Gulp
StyleLint / ESLint / Prettier / VSCode
Backend Technologies:
PHP / MySQL / OOP / APIs
Databases / Server Management
WordPress Core / Codex
Logic Building / Debugging
PHPCS / PHPCBF
Graphics / Web Design:
Figma / Sketch
Photoshop / Illustrator
WordPress Themes:
Custom Post Types / Taxonomies
Page Templates / WordPress Customizer
Custom Gutenberg Blocks
Theme Developers Handbook
WordPress Plugins:
Actions / Hooks / Filters
WP REST API
WordPress Core Contributor Handbook
WooCommerce:
WooCommerce Core / Codex
Custom Themes / Plugins
Payment Gateways / Shopping Carts
Shipping APIs
Coding Standards:
WordPress Standards
Themeforest Standards
W3C Standards
Schema Markup
Integrations:
REST / SOAP / GraphQL
JSON / XML
Page Speed / Analytics / Search Console / Google APIs etc
Paypal / Stripe / 2Checkout / Payment APIs etc
Shipping / Mail / Apps / Other APIs
Technical SEO:
Robots / Sitemaps / Yoast SEO
Google Search Console
Ryte / MozSEO / Technical SEO Audits
Performance Optimization:
Lighthouse / Google Page Speed
Pingdom / GTMetrix / Web Page Test
Performance Budgets / Performance Audits
Communication:
Fluency in spoken English
Excellent written English
Benefits:
Flexible hours and occasional work from home option.
Generous holidays (~20 days per year).
Health and medical coverage.
Healthy budgets for conferences, online courses and books (of your choice).
Company t-shirts, hoodies, beanies and other schwag.
Performances and annual bonuses.
Trips and leisure activities.
Compensation:
Salary and compensation is commensurate with experience. Not to worry. The pay is competitive and what you’d expect for this role.
To get considered, send us links to WordPress themes or plugins published on GitHub, Themeforest, WordPress.org or CodeCanyon
Read the job description thoroughly before applying.
We’re a friendly group of WordPress designers, developers, testers, and marketers having a great time building all things WordPress. We live WordPress and we breath WordPress.