Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Publisher Desk is a company that empowers media brands to connect with their audience and advertisers. They are seeking an experienced Front End Developer to build efficient and responsive media-focused websites, ensuring a positive customer experience across various platforms and devices.
Responsibilities
- Code new WordPress themes, page templates, and plugins from scratch and modify existing themes and plugins
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable php modules including dynamic content and personalization features
- Provide front-end development of digital marketing communications, including full websites and micro-sites, landing pages, emails, and other initiatives
- Develop, test and troubleshoot across multiple browsers, platforms and devices, including tablets and smartphones, to support a consistent and positive customer experience
- Provide guidance on SEO best practices for site development
- Research and recommend new technologies and tools for effective integration across various platforms
- Additionally, you must understand user experience and be able to build media websites that are easy to understand, navigate, use, and adhere to design standards and specifications
- You should be be able to design layouts for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
- Create wireframes or mockups for web pages and applications
- Establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices
Skills
- 5 years of experience as a web developer
- Strong working knowledge of the Wordpress Gutenberg editor, especially the creation and maintenance of custom blocks for unique site needs
- Experience creating and integrating custom wordpress plugins, themes, working with Wordpress hooks and filters
- Experience creating websites for a mobile-first strategy
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
- Strong knowledge of common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
- Experience with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, and responsive frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap)
- Experience with online usability, accessibility, and web analytics
- Experience with development languages (Java or Python)
- Experience integrating or working with ad serving technologies (prebid, DFPP)
- Experience with software versioning and revision control systems (Git required)
- WordPress experience
- Good understanding of search engine optimization and core web vitals principles
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
- Creative and open to new ideas
- Excellent communication skills
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