Blacksmith is seeking a Team Lead - Full Stack Developer who is motivated to spearhead the development of unique, custom WordPress themes and plugins for our clients without leaving behind backend coding. The lead will transform completed designs into live, interactive web experiences with beautiful, clean code while supporting clean code practices on the team and acting as technical advisor to our clients alongside the Director of Engineering.
If you enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex problems and aren’t afraid to take initiative then join our growing team of talented individuals!
Position Benefits:
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Remote – 100% work from home
- Opportunity to work and grow at an award winning digital agency
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Experience leading code reviews
- Advisor to clients for projects that best meet their bottom line
- Experience scoping out complex custom WordPress or ecommerce builds
- Expert level skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Expert on backend development with PHP.
- Experience working and managing MySQL databases.
- Experience building custom WordPress themes/plugins
- Complete understanding of the WordPress core software and its functions at the code level
- Hands on experience with SASS/SCSS/LESS and Flexbox
- Build responsive websites that function perfectly on any device or browser size
- Experience with Git/Bitbucket
- Ability to execute ADA and SEO best practices
- Leverage WP Plugin Advanced Custom Fields
- Proactively perform cross-browser compatibility tests and iterate to work through the bugs
- Adept at developing custom WP themes from Figma design files
- Collaborate with both UX/UI Web Designers and Backend Developers to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation in order to complete projects, websites, platforms and other web experiences
- Optimize application for optimum speed and scalability
- Communicate positively and honestly with a strong work ethic and reliability
- Excitement to learn new technologies and self-teach when needed
- This position does not use existing WordPress templates or page builders (i.e WP Bakery, Divi, Elementor, etc) as all projects are custom and built from scratch
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with SOWs or RFPs or other pre-sales activity
- Experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks
- Experience with vanilla.js, ES6/ES2015, Gutenberg blocks
- Experience working with Laravel PHP Framework and other backend technologies like CodeIgniter and NodeJS.
- Ability to use a taskrunner (ie: Gulp/Grunt/Webpack) to generate website assets
- Develop with a JavaScript compiler (ie: Babel, etc) to generate cross-browser compatible JS code
- Testing experience
- 3+ years of agency experience