WordPress Front End Engineer

WordPress Front End Engineer

Remote

Part Time

Experienced

Overview Of Role:

We’re a fully remote web development agency looking for a part time contract WordPress Front-end Engineer. This position should have an attention to detail and love to develop interactive and engaging web experiences. This person should have a keen eye for engaging animations and clean code.

Our mission:

At First + Third, it is our mission to outperform average agencies. We believe that when an agency only thinks about how to get a project done and not enough about the client’s goals, it becomes impossible for the project to be a success.

As an organization we are obsessed with helping our clients understand and achieve their objectives through thoughtful, well-executed web design and development.

Responsibilities:

1. Execute – Be able to take visual designs in sketch and written specifications and turn those into semantic html/css/js that is reusable, scalable, performant, accessible and work on all major browsers
2. Make it move – We love to create experiences on our pages. We leverage CSS and JavaScript animation to make our pages come alive
3. Components – Be able to create reusable Gutenberg blocks that allow clients and product team to enter content and customize the components.
4. Reuse – Develop a reusable component/block library for WordPress that is reusable across client projects

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a WordPress front-end developer.
• Strong understanding of HTML and CSS including cross-browser compatibility and performance.
• Ability to write modern and performant JavaScript using latest technologies.
• We expect you to know your way around git and Github
• Experience with front-end building tools (such as Webpack).
• Experience working remotely.
• Comfortable interpreting designs and/or specifications and thinking through the best approach to adapting it to code.
• A solid understanding of good UX and UI practices for websites.
• Familiarity with Sketch and Adobe XD.
• Experience with WordPress and Gutenberg with building out custom blocks.
• Experience working with component systems.
• Estimating work for a project and taking specs and turning into clearly defined, executable tasks.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with React
• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with Shopify
• Understanding of WCAG accessibility compliance. Ability to implement accessibility standards as well as audit existing websites.