WordPress Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated WordPress Developer to join our team at MDG Solutions. As a key player in shaping our technological future, you will be responsible for building high-availability, scalable, and performant solutions that empower multi-location organizations to effectively reach and engage their target audiences.

• Contribute to all phases of the development cycle, including project estimation and peer-level review of strategy and code.
• Develop and maintain custom and requirements-driven WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
• Work independently and in small teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Communicate and report on the status and requirements with other teams (in-house and remote).
• Mentor, educate, and motivate junior team members.
• Adhere to and contribute to standards, automations, and best practices.
• Manage trade-offs between development speed and quality.
• Possess strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
• Proficient in writing and speaking English.
• Ensure all deliverables meet all requirements and are developed with established quality standards.
• Able to multitask between multiple projects and prioritize accordingly.
• Ensure project deadlines are met; communicate when obstacles prevent delivery on time.
• Has a data-driven approach to testing and implementing improvements.
• Experience with generating reports from different platforms to satisfy client requests.
• Has a collaborative and open-minded personality.
• Provides and accepts constructive feedback to improve the quality of products.
• Open-minded; willing to seek the opinions and inputs of others before providing a deliverable.
• Possesses an innovative, inventive, creative, logical, and analytical mindset.

• Experience in digital marketing.
• Implements SEO best practices.
• A working knowledge of HTML, CSS, CSS pre-processors (LESS and SASS), native JavaScript, jQuery, and MySQL/MariaDB.
• Experience working with HTML5 and CSS3 features; implements fall-backs for features unavailable in older browsers and on older devices.
• Ability to transform static designs from Photoshop, Sketch, and Zeplin to responsive HTML5 web pages.
• Experience with React JS, Angular, and XSL are a plus.
• Experience developing in current PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel 5.6+) and has an understanding of MVC principles is a plus.
• Expertise in developing and optimizing the Document Object Model and CSS layout, render-tree construction (HTML parsing, paint, rendering, and compositing).
• Experience developing on both LAMP and LEMP stacks.
• Familiarity developing with and maintaining codebases on Microsoft IIS,.NET (C#, ASP.NET), and MSSQL Server are a plus.
• Experience developing and maintaining custom and requirements-driven WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
• Working with Git version control.
• Utilizes both object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming.
• Experience interfacing and developing web applications with JavaScript and server-side (PHP) client libraries/APIs/SDKs (RESTful and SOAP).
• Familiar with debugging and reverse engineering codebases without elaborate problem descriptions.
• Familiarity with profiling code execution, both server-side (using tools such as Xdebug) and client-side (using tools such as Google Searchlight and Runtime Performance audit in DevTools).
• Experience using third-party profiling tools, including Google PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom, to optimize website performance, and understands how to implement recommendations from these tools.
• Experience with secure coding principles and best practices for web applications; familiar with and implements measures against common security vulnerabilities, such as XSS.
• Has worked with marketing platforms including Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Google Search Console.
• Experience working in Scrum and other agile development methodologies.
• Experience with package managers (Composer, NPM).
• Experience setting up and maintaining LAMP and LEMP servers, both dedicated and virtualized (notably Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu distributions); familiarity with the linux command line, setting up active traffic and performance monitoring solutions, optimizing PHP-FPM pools and tuning Apache/Nginx configurations based on server load and CPU and I/O utilization; ensuring software versions are up to date and security patches are applied promptly; install and test custom software.
• Create and implement database specifications, design models, and queries to meet the functional requirements of custom web applications.
• Ensures code rigidity and compatibility by testing all use cases (and includes edge cases into function design) and ensures code accuracy in QA. Applies to designed web pages (responsive layouts and cross-browser/device testing), front-end code, and back-end code.
• Familiarity with writing custom or framework-driven RESTful APIs is a plus.
• Familiarity with deployments to AWS is a plus.
• Experience developing with eCommerce platforms (Magento) is a plus.

We offer competitive healthcare, dental, and vision plans along with several voluntary benefit extras. Employees receive generous PTO in addition to all major holidays and the option to enroll in a comprehensive 401K plan with employer matching.