Job Description

 Real Tested CBD is looking for a PHP/Wordpress web developer to join our team. Remote work is acceptable. Extensive Wordpress knowledge is a must, and eDirectory experience is a plus. Each applicant must link to his or her portfolio of sites that he or she has developed. Please include a resume.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a small, cross-functional agile team, actively participating and contributing to agile events as appropriate
• Support product discovery through implementation of prototypes and similar techniques for fast, inexpensive learning
• Support product delivery by building, testing, and releasing production quality WordPress websites utilizing best engineering practices
• Implement and maintain front-end designs in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related frameworks and technologies as necessary, and which are faithful to designs provided in Zeplin or similar tools
• Write simple, clean and secure PHP code, as well as efficient SQL queries, with a focus on minimizing technical debt and complexity
• Implement unit tests and other automated tests as appropriate.
• Refactor, optimize and improve existing code for better maintainability and scalability, and to reduce technical debt in general
• Develop and maintain clear and complete documentation
• Test own work with a view to minimal work items being returned for defects to be fixed, while working closely with QA to ensure that any defects are promptly resolved
• Provide operational support for applications and websites when so required
• Troubleshoot, identify root causes of, and remediate complex technical issues

Knowledge Skills & Experience

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Motivated with a collaborative and growth mindset
• Committed to a culture of trust, transparency and accountability
• Well organized with superb attention to detail
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Has a passion for quality, and knowledge of what it takes to ship high quality code
• Dedicated to speed of delivery without compromising quality
• Equally comfortable developing both Backend and Frontend
• Knowledge of Git or Git-based code repository systems
• 3+ years previous experience in front-end/web development with HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, React and Bootstrap, are a must
• 2+ years previous experience in WordPress development with PHP, including WordPress theme and plugin development, creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and utilization of action hooks and filter hooks, are a must
• Able to write complex and performant SQL queries; experience on MySQL preferred
• Comfortable both consuming and implementing RESTful APIs in PHP
• Knowledge of PHP template engines such as Twig, Mustache or Blade (preferred)
• Experience or knowledge in any of the following would be an asset: Node.js, Webpack, Composer, Yarn, WP-CLI; experience with Sage and Bedrock by Roots.io would be awesome
• Able to optimize websites for high scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse
• Demonstrates a mindset of “quality is everyone’s responsibility”, with experience writing unit tests in PHPUnit, as well as JavaScript test frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest, Jasmine or similar
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues
• eDirectory experience is a plus

Compensation: $90,000/yr