Position Accountability Statement
We are looking for a WordPress Developer to lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of our web properties. You will be responsible for creating or maintaining high-performance, secure, and scalable websites. You'll bridge the gap between design and technology, ensuring our brand is represented perfectly across all devices while maintaining a clean, manageable backend for our content editors.
Job Responsibilities
Theme & Plugin Development
- Build custom WordPress themes from scratch or develop child themes to maintain upgradeability.
- Evaluate, install, and configure industry-standard plugins, and develop custom plugins when off-the-shelf solutions don't meet business needs.
- Use Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to create flexible, easy-to-use editing interfaces for non-technical staff.
Front-End & UX
- Convert Figma/Adobe XD designs into pixel-perfect, mobile-first web pages or create from scratch using HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and JavaScript.
- Proficiency with modern builders (Elementor, Oxygen, or Gutenberg/Block Editor) while knowing when to ditch them for clean code.
Performance & Security
- Optimize Core Web Vitals (caching, image compression, CDN integration, and minification).
- Implement security best practices to protect against SQL injections, XSS, and brute force attacks.
- Manage a staging-to-production workflow to ensure zero downtime during core or plugin updates.
- Remediation of all security findings that will be requested by internal or external security teams.
Support & Optimization
- Act as the first line of defense for site breaks, checkout issues, or display glitches across different browsers and devices.
- Ensure the site structure and metadata are optimized for search engine crawling.
- Able to handle incident and service request tickets.
STANDARD RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENTS
- Strives to embody, commits to support, and deliver the quality policy, objectives and initiatives of the organization;
- Communicates, engages, directs, and supports people to contribute to the Governance and Resilience effectiveness;
- Demonstrates commitment to customers by ensuring applicable statutory and regulatory requirements are determined, understood and consistently met;
- Abides by the Governance and Resilience policies and procedures for the effective management and control of its processes; and
- Promotes and utilizes the Process Approach and Risk-based Thinking at work.
- Performs other RELATED functions that may be assigned BY THE IMMEDIATE SUPERIOR
Desired Skills And Competencies
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Leadership Influence
- Communication Impact
Professional Qualification
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in WordPress development.
Technical Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in PHP, JavaScript (jQuery/Vanilla), HTML5, and CSS3.
- Solid understanding of MySQL and how WordPress stores data.
- Deep knowledge of the WordPress Template Hierarchy and Hooks (Actions and Filters).
- Experience with Version Control (Git), WP-CLI, and Local development environments (like LocalWP or Docker).
- Ability to implement technical SEO (Schema markup) and tracking pixels (GTM/GA4).
- Familiarity with REST API or Headless WordPress (using React or Next.js ) is a plus.
- Understanding of web accessibility (WCAG) standards is a plus
- Willingness to be retool and learn new technologies.
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.You don't need to be a designer, but you should notice if a margin is 5px off.
- Ability to explain why too many plugins is a bad idea to a marketing manager or a technical person.
- You enjoy the detective work of finding which plugin is causing a site-wide conflict.
