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Frontend / Wordpress Developer

Brightlight currently has a vacancy for a Frontend / WordPress Developer to join our team.

Who We're Looking For

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Frontend / WordPress Developer to join the brightlight team!

As a Frontend / WordPress Developer at our company, you will be responsible for frontend development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

We are expecting you to have a strong understanding of latest industry trends and content management systems.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing new features and functionality
  • Establishing and guiding the website’s 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 plugin.

Requirements

  • 2+ years WordPress experience
  • Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
  • Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
  • Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
  • 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 wireframes 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}
  • Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
  • Experience using InVision, Sketch and similar relevant programs
  • PHP OOP (writing WordPress plugins)

Additional Skills (not necessary but beneficial)

  • Experience with VUE.js
  • AWS Experience

Please send your CV with link to your github projects to:

careers@brightlight.ie.