Senior Wordpress Developer

Promet Source is a global web and mobile application development company with offices in Chicago, USA and Cebu, Philippines. We are a full service technology firm that delivers high-value consulting and software development solutions that clients need to grow their business. As a leading technology provider of web services, we focus on complex web development, support, mobile applications, and strategic marketing. We are dedicated to open source software solutions by providing managed services for websites, products, and applications. Come work with a great, growing company! 

Promet is looking for a client facing Contract Senior Wordpress Developer to work remotely with its established team of professionals remotely in the US or nearshore. The hourly rate is $35-70USD per hour and there are no benefits with this contract role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and build with best practice and code excellence in mind
• Work in teams to help build and develop websites with Wordpress
• 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 Wordpress site
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
• Serve as the Wordpress expert and mentor to the team 

Qualifications:

Technical:

• Expert understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• GitHub experience
• Knows how to apply accessibility web standards into their job role
• Solid knowledge of Wordpress' hook and API system.
• Experience using ACF to create custom post types, taxonomies, and fields.
• Comfortable building both themes and plugins from scratch.
• Comfortable using site builders and creating new components for them as needed ( Gutenburg, Elementor, Divi, etc. )
• Understand and can Develop a website to follow WCAG AA 2.1 guidelines.
• Building themes using Timber ( TWIG templates ) is a bonus.

Business:

• General understanding of project management principles. (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall)
• Strong work ethic, a drive for success and proactive attitude
• Experience working in small teams
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Familiar with QA and deployment processes
• Must be a friendly team player who enjoys challenges and learning new skills and technique

Promet is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer.  We hire without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.