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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Huzzle.com

51 - 200 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.8M Pre Seed Round - Huzzle on 2024-04

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

Huzzle. com is an AI-native hiring platform that connects companies with pre-vetted, remote talent—especially sales and go-to-market roles—through a streamlined sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and payroll workflow. The platform uses AI-driven candidate search and automated interviews (with expert review) to surface high-quality candidates quickly, then handles contracts, onboarding, and cross-border payroll and compliance so employers can hire globally in days. It also offers a candidate-facing experience that matches applicants to remote roles after a single 20-minute interview and provides a curated talent marketplace.

📋 Description

• Build and customize WordPress themes, website layouts, templates, and styles using HTML, CSS, PHP, and WordPress best practices. • Develop custom WordPress plugins, extensions, and functionality when existing solutions do not meet project requirements. • Manage user-facing website functionality and back-end components, including server-side logic and database interactions. • Improve page loading speeds, Core Web Vitals, website performance, and overall user experience across desktop and mobile devices. • Implement technical and on-page SEO best practices to improve website structure, crawlability, performance, and search engine visibility. • Ensure websites are fully responsive across mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. • Conduct security checks and audits, manage WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates, and follow security best practices. • Diagnose and resolve website errors, plugin conflicts, broken functionality, performance issues, and other technical bugs. • Perform regular website and database backups and support restoration or recovery when required. • Test websites and new functionality before deployment to ensure reliability, compatibility, and performance.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional WordPress development experience. • Strong proficiency in WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3. • Proven experience developing and customizing WordPress themes. • Experience building or modifying custom WordPress plugins. • Strong understanding of both front-end and back-end web development. • Experience working with WordPress databases and server-side functionality. • Knowledge of responsive and mobile-first development. • Practical experience with website speed and performance optimization. • Understanding of technical SEO and SEO-friendly web development. • Knowledge of WordPress security best practices, updates, backups, and ongoing maintenance. • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills. • Ability to work independently in a remote environment and manage development tasks effectively. • Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing clean, reliable, high-quality work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications. • Fully remote opportunity with an international company. • Work on meaningful WordPress development projects with real ownership and impact. • Join a collaborative, high-performing team with opportunities to grow your technical expertise. • Long-term career growth and professional development opportunities.

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