Senior Full Stack WordPress Developer
Fly - MarTech Made Easy, Brazil
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small and dynamic MarTech company. Fly is a specialist marketing technology consultancy with a mission to help small businesses and not for profits to find their next stage of growth. Together we help our clients work smarter, achieve more and avoid expensive mistakes.
We are looking for a commercially astute and experienced Full Stack WordPress Developer to help deliver step-change for our clients.
Your experience will include building, testing, managing and improving custom, fully-responsive WordPress websites that carefully respect the vision of our designers, the UX demands of site visitors and the business needs of our clients.
Examples of your day-to-day role:
- Building fully-responsive WordPress sites from scratch based on well-organised and documented high-definition designs. E.g. Figma.
- Delivering regular improvements, new functionality amp; timely bug fixes to existing client WordPress sites, including occasional custom plugin development.
- Creating and automating Unit and general tests for WordPress themes and plugins.
- Crafting solutions to Fly’s own internal WordPress website properties.
- Manage routine updates to ensure the security and stability of client sites.
- Collaborating with other members of the team inside a version control tool (bitbucket, GitHub, etc).
This is a full-time role in our Brazilian-based team. You must live and have the right to work in Brazil to be considered for the role.
Requirements
- Fluency or advanced level in both spoken and written English
- 5+ years of experience as a WordPress Developer
- Strong understanding of the latest industry trends influencing development direction and choices, including concepts pertaining to high-performance sites e.g. (Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse)
- Ability to create robust tests in PHP using Unit test and similar tools
- Ability to manage all technical aspects of the WordPress CMS and shape options to ease management for non-technical marketing teams
- Working knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields and other leading WordPress development and marketing tools
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
- Working knowledge and understanding of the importance of versioning tools
- Experience using debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, and others available
- Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
- Knowledge and respect for core SEO principles
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Working knowledge in hosting services like (Flywheel, WP Engine, Kinsta etc)
You might also (but not necessarily) have:
- Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)
- Working knowledge in AWS/Google Cloud
- Understanding and experience in WordPress/PHP security practices
- Knowledge of SEO principles
- Interact with RESTful APls and formats (JSON, XML)
- Experience using ManageWP or similar
Benefits
- You'll have the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in Brazil; our team is distributed.
- You'll have a 'home office' budget to ensure you have the equipment you require to do your job.
- You'll have your own Learning amp; Development budget together with 10% of your time to dedicate exclusively toward active learning.
- You will benefit directly from Fly's heavy investment into technologies, tools, services and initiatives that ultimately deliver greater value to our clients and make the team's working life simpler.
- PJ contract with c. 38 days per year paid time off (inclusive of public holidays)
- Competitive salary dependent upon experience (R$7.000 - R$10.000).
- You can read more about Fly here (https://www.talk2fly.com/careers/)
The Interview Process
- Please submit your application in English by clicking on the button below.
- Stage 1: You may be invited to take a short English test.
- Stage 2: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an initial 15-minute video call.
- Stage 3: Shortlisted candidates from stage 2 will then be invited to take part in a skills-based assessment
- Stage 4: Shortlisted candidates from stage 3 will then be invited to final interviews.
*This is a remote position for Brazilian residents, provided you live in Brazil you are eligible to apply.