WordPress Developer (Short-Term Contract)

NinjaHoldings is seeking a WordPress Developer responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. The role requires programming skills in PHP, React, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, with a focus on responsive and adaptive design. The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends, content management systems, and the entire web development process.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $35.00 - $65.00 / hr

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website's architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of development experience with WordPress, PHP, React, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
• Must possess React experience
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience developing responsive websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
• Strong understanding of SEO best practices
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment; ability to meet deadlines and be flexible to changing priorities; ability to efficiently manage time based on business priorities

Additional Information

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