Job Description
Join a fast moving team within our client's R&D Web Products group to assist with the effort to modify and enhance their Wordpress based content authoring system. In this role, you will be the point person on the R&D team's content management efforts working directly with marketing team, SEO team, content editors, and the project managers to help develop tools that will enable innovative interactive story telling that powers their online website which is a highly influential.
The ideal candidate should be a great developer with proven experience developing Wordpress themes and plugins and have excellent front end development experience but will also be someone who has a passion for technology and games and can effectively communicate and manage expectations.
If you are excited by the challenge of working in a fast paced dynamic environment and you have developed and launched enough projects to keep your cool under deadline pressure and you do not walk away form a task until it is done then this is the role for you.
Job Specification
* BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* 3+ years of experience with PHP and familiar with XHTML, HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery and general Web 2.0 techniques
* 2+ years of experience as a WordPress developer with experience building custom Themes, Plugins, and Widgets
* Proficiency in software engineering best practices and the use of JSON/AJAX/XM techniques
* Expertise in building responsive and scalable sites for all platforms
* Experience with Common Development tools (Git, bootstrap, etc)
* Experience with object oriented analysis/design
* Familiarity with relational databases, preferably MYSQL and Oracle
* Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
* Contributor to WordPress, Drupal or similar open source projects a plus
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!