Web Developer (Wordpress) at Pragmatic Technologies

Details:

The Web Developer will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development and maintenance of our websites. He/ She should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. 

Responsibilities:

• WordPress custom theme development from scratch and maintenance
• Complex plugin development to add custom functionalities in no time
• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
• Working with development team, marketers and Newsroom team to achieve common goal
• A/B testing
• UAT across Mobile, Tablet and Desktop
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the backend
• UX development
• Website speed optimization and performance on both mobile and desktop
• Strong understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
• Code documentation, edit and update

Qualifications

• A Computer science degree and/ or relevant programming training will suffice.
• Relevant certifications will be an added advantage

Knowledge and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science or related course
• Necessary certification(s) and minimum of 2 years’ experience in production line
• Advanced mobile theme development for Opera mini (extreme mode especially), UC, Safari, Iron, Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, and Android browsers 
• Able to tweak and improve WordPress themes and plugins into any complex requirements.
• Strong understanding of different website views based on Desktop or Mobile
• Advanced CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Strong experience with responsive and adaptive design 
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• WordPress, PHP and MySQL back-end development
• Strong knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.   
• Robust multitenant database development plugged into from scratch E-commerce application  
• Forum development, user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Double click for publishers
• Experience with Google AdSense, Crazy egg, and domain management 

Personal Attributes

• Strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Keen attention to detail
• Exceptional customer service orientation