WordPress Developer

Awesome Motive - West Palm Beach, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - West Palm Beach, FL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a WordPress Developer at Awesome Motive, you will be responsible for building infrastructure to create new features, improving existing code, and addressing bugs to help scale the platform rapidly. This role requires a self-starter who takes initiative and sees projects through from conception to completion, while also being an excellent communicator and a team player.

Responsibilities

• Triaging bugs and small enhancements that come into GitHub.
• Scoping, writing, and testing new product features and addons.
• Refactoring legacy code with a particular attention to backwards compatibility.
• Providing feedback and peer review for other developers (Github PRs).
• Communicating with the team and supporting your peers using chat, audio, and video.

Requirements

• Professional experience with WordPress plugin development, architecture, and standards.
• Advanced proficiency with PHP and MySQL, including modern PHP practices (OOP, autoloading, namespacing, traits, interfaces, etc).
• Strong familiarity with JavaScript (vanilla JS, jQuery, ES6, etc).
• Ability to use and extend build tools like gulp and webpack.
• Familiarity with package managers such as Composer and NPM.
• Experience working with third-party APIs (Eg Stripe, Drip, Zapier, etc).
• Competent with version control through git and GitHub.
• The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly.
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to keep complex ideas and features simple.
• Previous freelance or remote work experience.
• Personal Computer with Internet Access.
• Availability to participate in audio/video meetings between the hours 9 am - 5 pm EST.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript frameworks like VueJS or React.
• Experience with e-commerce platforms or related APIs (Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, etc).
• Experience with DevOps or infrastructure management.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary.
• Term Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment for all full-time team members during their employment.
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance benefits for full-time U.S. employees.
• Health Insurance benefits for all employees in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Philippines, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Nepal, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain & Jamaica.
• Work from your home.
• Flexible PTO after 90 days of employment.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Reimbursement for software, books, or courses that promote continued learning.
• Coverage of all costs of company travel, including annual retreats and mini-team meetups.
• AM Welcome Box for new team members, Yearly Anniversary Gifts, and Technology Stipend each work anniversary.