We are looking for someone to fill our Lead Wordpress Developer role.
This role naturally involves leading a team of devs, both frontend & backend, to add new features, improve the existing implementation, and fix bugs within our mature WordPress multisite instance.
The accepted candidate would ideally have experience working as a Team Lead.
rate
The range for this position is between 32$ and 36$ hourly, depending on experience
time commitment
We are looking for an individual who can consistently commit around 10h per week.
Due to the nature of the work, this will likely be split up over the course of the week.
As a team, we aim to respond to messages within 24h Mon-Fri (of course faster is better), and as the team lead, guiding the team daily during the week is critical to keep everyone unblocked and moving forward.
the site
The site has 4000+ articles focussed on several programming languages and has been expanding to include subjects such as core CS topics. The site also has sales pages for courses.
We receive 12m+ page hits per month with around 2750 active visitors at peak.
The site consists of a mature WordPress multisite instance with a custom theme, several custom plugins, and many third-party plugins. Some of the notable plugins are:
Elementor
Advanced Access Manager
W3 Total Cache
Experience with these is a plus.
The site runs on Cloudways with a hybrid apache/nginx setup.
We use Cloudflare extensively with several features configured and enabled.
Experience with those is a plus but we also have a DevOps team managing the bottom of the stack, though there is often a need for WordPress/PHP context in that area which is missing on the DevOps side.
We use npm/grunt a little for running tasks that build the theme and for a little bit of unit testing.
the organization
The accepted candidate would be joining the UX team which is one team amongst several, including teams focussed on DevOps, admin, marketing, courses, article authors, and editors. While the work is focussed on the UX side the accepted candidate would likely be liaising with members of those teams at times too.
requirements
responsibilities
- hiring
optional plusses
Google Analytics
Jira
Wordpress Multisite
Knowledge of the latest optimization/performance standards and techniques
Elementor
npm/grunt