Impact in this Role

We're looking for a Sr. Wordpress Developer to support the marketing team in building and maintaining a dynamic, mobile-responsive website hosted in the Wordpress environment.
This role will be responsible for building and maintaining a best-in-class website experience to drive user acquisition and customer engagement. An ideal candidate not only knows which tool is right for the job, but has an expansive toolbox of go-to solutions, so they can hit the ground running, whatever the challenge.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high-velocity environment and take the Fictiv website to the next level by helping us reach the right prospects with the right content and message at the right time.
We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of Word Press and digital marketing. You've built your own themes and plugins before and you're up-to-date with the latest and greatest trends and technologies. You must be able to code custom modules according to coding standards and best practices. In addition to being a front-end wizard, you should be able to handle more complex back-end tasks like building dynamic content, SEO optimization and web service programming. You enjoy exploring and building web experiences that push the envelope.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Build, extend, maintain, and optimize our marketing website using the Word Press CMS.
• Develop page types, taxonomy language, menu systems, and other Word Press CMS data structures based on wireframes and project requirements
• Manage a junior Word Press developer
• Configuring goals, triggers, tracking snippets, etc. in our A/B testing tool VWO.
• Converting designs into component-based HTML, CSS, and Java Script.
• Strong knowledge of technical SEO best practices
• Experienced understanding of UI/UX standards for high-velocity transactions, and the value of a good UX.
• Participate in all stages of development, testing, implementation and maintenance
• Daily workload includes, but not limited to updates to CMS templates, creation of new custom templates, WP maintenance, and support
• Create and manage the website back-end including database and integrations, particularly with Marketo and Salesforce.
• Conferring with teams to resolve issues/bugs, prioritize needs, identify solution(s) and implement.
• Patching Wordpress, WP Plugins (e.g. Advanced Custom Fields Pro), PHP and other CMS components on a monthly basis or sooner if any highly critical, actively exploited, vulnerabilities are announced
• Setup periodic vulnerability scans and action on alerts and results

Desired Traits:

• 10+ years of experience building websites as a front-end developer in a fast-paced environment using front-end technologies, including Word Press, HTML5, CSS3, Java Script, Node/NPM, Webpack, and Tailwind CSS.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear and concise way.
• Working knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Attention to detail with the ability to deliver projects on-time and on budget
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and optimizing responsive websites
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

Additional Qualifications:

• Wordpress
• HTML/CSS
• Javascript
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Cloud Apps
• Asana and/or Jira
• Google Suite
• Slack
• Zoom
• Hotjar
• VWO
• GSC, GTM, GA4