WordPress Developer

We are inviting a talented WordPress Developer specializing in Pro by Theme.co to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with custom plugin development, API integrations, and converting Figma designs into responsive and visually appealing web pages. We need someone who is detail-oriented, precise, and capable of working efficiently under tight deadlines. Experience with multilingual websites is also a key requirement.

Location: Mumbai & Vicinity (India)

Key Responsibilities:

• Convert Figma designs into pixel-perfect, responsive WordPress pages using Pro by Theme.co.
• Develop custom WordPress plugins to extend the functionality of websites.
• Integrate third-party APIs to create seamless experiences.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and consistent performance across all devices.
• Work with multilingual websites and implement WPML or similar solutions.
• Maintain website architecture and optimize page performance for SEO.
• Collaborate with the design and content teams to create visually engaging and functional web pages.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of using CSS grids.
• Strong proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS.
• Experience with custom plugin development and API integration.
• Strong attention to detail and precision in design implementation.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and provide solutions in a timely manner.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Good to have:

• Experience in managing WooCommerce sites.
• Experience working on multilingual websites using tools like WPML.
• Familiarity with SEO best practices.

We Offer:

• Work on Open Source Projects
• Competitive Salary based on Location
• Flexible working hours
• 4 weeks of paid leave/year
• Work from home

Plant-for-the-Planet is a youth-led non-profit organization with a vision to plant a Trillion Trees. We are a collective of young climate justice ambassadors, environmental scientists, designers, and developers – spread across 5 continents – who work together to bring solutions to solve the climate crisis.

Learn more: https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain user interfaces for the internal product suite.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and backend engineers to understand

requirements, translate them into user-friendly interfaces, and ensure a consistent

user experience across all products.

• Champion the technical feasibility of our UI/UX designs, ensuring seamless user experiences.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards.

• Conduct unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and functionality.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI development trends and technologies.

• Take initiative and ownership of assigned tasks, ensuring they are completed efficiently and to a high standard. 

Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelors in any Computers stream or related fields

• Minimum 1+ years of experience as a UI Developer.

• Proficiency in Javascript,Node.js & any one of (Angular, Nextjs or React.js)

• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• A passion for modern web development practices and a drive to deliver high-quality

work.

• Good to have the Experience with responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar.

• Previous work experience of 4-6 years as an angularJS developer.
• Proficient in CSS, HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Gulp or Grunt.
• Knowledge of JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks including AngluarJS.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Proven experience implementing front-end and back-end JavaScript applications.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.

As a front end product engineer, you will work with product engineers & designers to improve the overall user experience, performance, reliability and scalability of our systems. From handling millions of messages/ payments a minute to extract buyer intent and priority for processing these transactions to building tools to trace and visualize payments made across a business you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business. Our goals includes scaling and architecting systems to support advanced product features that may not be currently viable because of hard technical considerations. You'll collaborate with our small, but effective, framework team with a track record of highly impactful work for Finly.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly's new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly's engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHs, YOU'LL

• Learn Finly's technical stack and apply development patterns through your work.
• Engage in your first on-call rotation in Support Engineering to help diagnose and resolve production problems and customer issues
• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing scalable frontend systems.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of frontend stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full improvements to our frontend services
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Drive service reliability by developing tooling that enables metric visibility using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Developing Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals

Your understanding of front-end technologies, web application dev, system design, will be put to the test. You will take up a project for a team and then move to another project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!