We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Lead WordPress Developer to join our team and take on a pivotal role in leading our WordPress engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong proficiency in web engineering, encompassing both backend and frontend development, coupled with modern WordPress development practices.
Responsibilities
- Tech Infrastructure Leadership: Lead the expansion and modernization of our tech infrastructure, meticulously shaping the architecture and strategy to enhance our tech stack.
- Hands-on Development: Actively contribute to coding efforts, crafting high-quality, scalable code for both front-end and back-end components, ensuring alignment with project goals and technical standards.
- Documentation Excellence: Lead by example in creating detailed, clear, and accessible documentation for code, systems, and processes, enhancing team understanding and facilitating future development efforts.
- Team Leadership: Cultivate, mentor, and lead a team of talented developers, promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance.
- Team Collaboration: Engage in productive teamwork within a group of highly skilled developers, elevating collective capabilities in a supportive and enjoyable environment.
- Agile Product Focus: Champion a product-centric agile methodology, prioritising customer-facing features through continuous deployment, embracing best practices, automated testing, and minimising maintenance overhead in all products.
Requirements
- 5 years of Senior PHP full-stack development experience in professional production environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
- Proficiency in OOP PHP with PSRs (PHP Standards recommendations) and best practices.
- Strong frontend experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS/CSS3 and responsive design.
- Experience with MVC PHP frameworks (i.e. Laravel).
- Strong experience in SQL database design, optimisation, and normalisation.
- Experience with Git Flow version control.
- Experience with REST APIs
Find.co is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.