Front-end Developer

Heylus Recruitment Ltd ,
Birmingham, West Midlands

Overview

Job Description

An award-winning Creative Digital Agency in Sutton Coldfield is looking for a Word Press Developer to join their growing team. As a Word Press developer we would want you to be confident in Building websites, mainly with Word Press, and including Woo Commerce and API integration. Communicating updates with account managers, designers, fellow developers. Creation of occasional email templates. Required Skills: * Write and test PHP in an Object-oriented style * Write and test JavaScript in a modular, configurable, reusable, and DRY format * Adhere to project Coding Standards such as PSR and WordPress * Advanced WordPress knowledge * Experience setting up WooCommerce websites and payment gateways * Create stand-alone plugins and themes that handle integration through filters and actions * Integrate 3rd Party API's * Understanding of website optimisation building for high performance * Work with version control. Push, pull, and resolving basic merge conflicts * Provide constructive feedback in code reviews Desirable skills: * Mac proficiency * Standards compliant HTML Email templates * Understanding of LAMP hosting environment * Integrating your work to benefit SEO * Understand the basics of design, front-end development, and user testing to aid integration with your developments * Exposure to Sketch - the ability to pull out colours, sizes, and images from designers mockups Experience: * Working in a studio environment * Improving legacy codebases * Written a theme or plugin from scratch, without the use of a 3rd party base. * Working with WooCommerce websites and payment gateways * Installing WordPress, plugins, and themes with Composer * Creating custom meta fields, from scratch, using a library like CMB2, or using Advanced Custom Fields plugin. * Experimenting with the new WordPress (Gutenberg) blocks. Employment Type: FULL_TIME