Web / App Developer at Preston Associates for International Development

Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishing and guiding the organisation’s website and app 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/or plugin.
• Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest front- end and back-end technologies.
• Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
• Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
• Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
• Self-motivated, goal oriented and able to work in a team environment.
• Designing visual concepts using graphic design tools including design software

Required Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in the use of flutter
• Proficiency in java script
• Ability to incorporate APIs into the development of the apps as well as AI tools
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins
• Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions as well as ability to customize WordPress to support specific functionality, create custom post types and create plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.
• Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and reusable code.
• Familiar with cPanel configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience creating multilingual websites.
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design web sites
• 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 wire-frames 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)
• Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.