Digital Web Developer

$95,000 - $135,000/Yr

Veeva Systems - Boston, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Boston, MA

501-1,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Digital Web Developer role at Veeva Systems is a key position within the Marketing Digital team, focusing on backend development for the company's websites, including veeva.com. The developer will leverage their expertise in PHP and WordPress to create custom features, manage site architecture, and ensure optimal performance. This role emphasizes collaboration with front-end developers and requires a proactive approach to coding and problem-solving, all while adhering to best practices in security and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom site features to meet the needs of stakeholders
• Create enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes primarily using PHP and Gutenberg blocks with React.js
• Build integrations with internal and external systems via APIs
• Determine technical direction and guide on decisions to write custom code or leverage community contributed code
• Apply the highest level of security to the code delivered
• Debug across a wide range of browsers and devices
• Implement WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript best practices across projects
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing
• Craft high-quality code with an emphasis on readability, efficiency, and maintainability
• Monitor the performance of the live website

Requirements

• Advanced PHP expertise and prior professional experience using it
• Experience in WordPress engineering, including PHP, React.js, and Gutenberg block development
• Skilled at debugging performance and caching issues across various environments
• Experience designing site architectures with a focus on scalability and maintainability best practices
• Comfortable using a Unix command line
• Experience building localized websites
• Strong communication skills to communicate technical concepts with non-developers
• Valued autonomy and self-management skills to operate independently in a fully remote role
• Experience designing and maintaining systems for site updates with thorough testing and quality assurance
• Proficient with Git and version control
• Experience interacting with RESTful APIs and data formats (JSON, XML)
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience developing WordPress websites

Nice-to-haves

• Modern JavaScript and Typescript (React and Node)
• Experience developing Gutenberg Blocks in a modern WordPress environment
• Front end development experience
• SEO knowledge
• UX/UI knowledge
• Comfortable working with MySQL, importing and exporting data, and optimizing database queries
• Experience with various caching systems and content-delivery networks

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program