WordPress Developer

At Fruition, we partner with our clients to provide a best-in-class web development experience. Join us as a WordPress developer and you will get to see our WordPress projects through the entire development process from planning to design to development to launch. We’ve also invested heavily in our hosting infrastructure to provide an excellent developer experience. We have first class tooling and infrastructure including: Jira, GitLab, Kubernetes and containerized everything. This is a great opportunity for you to come in and have a sizable impact on our already solid WordPress specific services and offerings.
Job Description
As a WordPress Developer, you’ll spend your time creating custom functionality on new and existing projects in WordPress, with a focus on backend development. The WordPress Developer will spend 80% of their time writing great code, 10% reviewing code of more junior developers and/or contractors, and 10% ensuring projects are aligned alongside dedicated project managers.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Applying architectural knowledge to new projects
• Engineering mid to large scale and sometimes complex websites using WordPress, including custom theme, and plugin development.
• Know when to leverage contributed or paid plugins and when to build custom plugins.
• Maintain and administer WordPress themes, plugins and sites
• Applying expertise in MySQL, relational databases and MySQL
• Applying working knowledge in JavaScript, AJAX and JQuery
• Using templates to theme
• Applying proficiency in table-less CSS with working knowledge of modern CSS compilers.
• Using git and code reviews before pushing
• Integrating open source and third-party applications into existing systems
• Building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Developing responsive websites using modern CSS frameworks
• Building custom WordPress plugins
• Writing clean, well designed code, following industry best practices.
• Solving complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Assisting the sales process with estimates on future work.
• Providing code review and mentoring less experienced staff.
• Working knowledge using and building Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, Guten blocks, ACF Fields, faceted search, gravity forms modifications.

Required Key Skills, Experience, and Education

• 3 + years experience building complex, high traffic sites using WordPress and custom PHP.
• Expertise in creating and implementing custom themes and at least the desire to build custom plugins.
• Experienced in connecting WordPress to third-party services using API integrations and plugins.
• Experience with estimating, planning, designing, testing, and building WordPress sites.
• Strong front end skills including solid experience with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and direction to local, remote, and offshore teammates.
• Experience managing projects with Jira (or similar)
• Experience with eCommerce development including WooCommerce
• A working knowledge of WordPress; generally know when to use something off-the-shelf, and when a custom solution is appropriate.
• Knowledgeable and opinionated about software maintainability.
• Self-driven continuing education on framework and broader software development practices.
• Comfort at the SQL command line.
• Some experience with modern front-end/ECMAscript frameworks, implementation of decoupled solutions, e.g. with Vue or React.
• Working knowledge of the Roots.io stack
• Skill in Sass/Less, CSS Grid and Flexbox.
• Experience as a member of a team using SDLC basics like CI/CD
• constructive code review and mentoring of juniors.
• Experience using the command-line to perform daily tasks, git skills are very important.

Benefits Summary

• Work/Life Balance – opportunities for flex schedule and remote work
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy (no pre-set limits)
• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision (partial employer-paid medical)
• Life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and supplemental voluntary benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Parental Leave
• Sabbatical
• Ongoing training and development
• Employee social and fundraising events

Salary Range
$70,000-$110,000 annually, commensurate with experience, skills, education and/or training

Location: 616 E. Speer Blvd.

Denver,CO 80203

United States, Denver, CO 80203

Job Type: Full-time