You would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. This is a contract based position (renewable annually) with market competitive compensation and requires strong WordPress development skills and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen for responsive design, as well as implementing custom functionality on the backend).
Responsibilities
Designing and implementing approved UI design into proper WordPress custom theme using Elementor / WP Bakery
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.
Proper commenting and use of code repositories is a must and you should be able to follow our processes instead of direct code changes via FTP / Cpanels in theme / code files on servers.
Compensation
Market competative salary with excellet working environment with a chance to improve on your technical skills by leaps and bounds if you are not afraid to take up new challenges. Our product team is based in Belgium and development team in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, forming an excellent collaboration to deliver custom solutions to Europe based clients in the government and private sector.
Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery etc.
Experience designing and developing responsive web pages for desktop and mobile screens
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 and WordPress pages
Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development for custom functionality implementation
Good idea about WP Functions, hooks and APIs
Should be comfortable designing and developing custom themes and pages using WP Bakery / Elementor
Proficient in understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
Good communication skills in English are a must for daily meetings with the Product Owner.