Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Parallel Interactive is a boutique California digital marketing agency with over 20 years of experience in creating exceptional digital experiences. They are seeking a Senior WordPress Developer / Consultant to implement attractive, secure, and high-performing websites for their clients, focusing on both back-end and front-end development.
Responsibilities
- Meeting with clients to discuss website design and function
- Designing and building the website front-end
- Creating the website architecture
- Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
- Identifying, evaluating, and recommending third-party WordPress themes and plugins
- Developing WordPress themes, child themes, and plugins
- Troubleshooting both technical and content issues
- Monitoring the health and performance of the live website
- Creating and archiving full website backups
- Setting up hosting and DNS
- Setting up website analytics and creating analytics reports
Skills
- Minimum five (5) years of professional WordPress development experience
- Minimum five (5) years operating as an independent consultant, freelancer, or owner of a web development business serving multiple clients
- Currently operating as an independent consultant, sole proprietor, LLC, or incorporated business providing web development services
- Must have a proven track record delivering WordPress websites for multiple clients in a consulting capacity
- Portfolio demonstrating successful WordPress projects
- Project samples must be submitted for consideration
- Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery
- Knowledge of back-end technologies including PHP, SQL, WP-CLI, and Bash
- Knowledge of code versioning tools, specifically Git
- Knowledge of website analytics tools including Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
- Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug
- Good understanding of website architecture, UX best practices, accessibility, SEO, and web aesthetics
- Good understanding of WordPress architecture and APIs
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with project managers and clients
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience building Genesis child themes
- Experience with the WP Engine hosting environment
- Experience with Cloudflare DNS
- Experience with Google's Looker Studio
- Experience with a multi-environment development workflow (Development, Staging/UAT, Production)
- Experience using Basecamp project management
- Enterprise-level web application development experience
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