Lead Wordpress Engineer - Full Stack

May 29, 2023

Blenderbox, Inc.

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Digital strategy, design, and application development for mission driven organizations and initiatives.

strategy • user experience • interaction design • visual design • ecommerce

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Description

• Lead a team of Wordpress Engineers • Responsible for driving development and support of Wordpress software products designed for higher education, nonprofit and government clients • Collaborate with UX / UI Designers and advise on technical feasibility of proposed design approaches • Become the guiding voice of our Wordpress Practice • Integrate functional, technical, and business requirements into efficient and scalable software designs • Compose and maintain detailed technical specifications • Solve technical challenges using available open source modules / plug-ins and follow modern best practices • Write secure, performant, maintainable and testable code for client and internal projects • Proactively raise and help resolve issues throughout the software product lifecycle • Contribute technical expertise in client meetings and communications • Proactively and clearly communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• Prior experience in a digital agency environment • 4+ years experience with OOP PHP / LAMP-stack applications • 2+ years of production experience with WordPress including 5.0+ and Gutenberg • Proficiency with JavaScript, CSS. • Experience with REST, APIs, JSON • Experience with content migrations • Experience with Caching technologies (CDN, Redis, Varnish, MemCache). • Experience with popular WordPress managed hosting providers such as WP Engine or Pantheon. • Working knowledge of software security and performance optimization principles • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams • Ability to troubleshoot technical issues • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Solid problem solving, organizational and time management skills • US Citizen or authorized to work in the United States. Nice to have: • Experience in other content management systems / frameworks • Experience with Lucene-based search (e.g. SOLR, ElasticSearch) • Experience with React and/or NodeJS • Experience with modern static site generators • Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and writing automated tests

Benefits

• Full coverage for Health Care, Dental, Vision • FSA, HSA coverage options • 401K & Pension Plan with employer contributions of at least 5% • 20 days of PTO, 11 Holidays, 5 Wellness Days • Home office improvement budget • Career growth and professional development coaching / support • Company-provided laptop • 100% virtual work environment - all team members are remote