WordPress developer

Job description

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who will work in coordination with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain our next generation websites and web tools. You will also lead a team of junior developers and designers to execute projects end to end. You must be comfortable working as part of a team while taking the initiative to take lead on new innovations and projects.

Responsibilities

• Development of responsive and SEO friendly web pages in WordPress from Figma designs.
• Developing and maintaining website backend in WordPress or PHP including MySQL database.
• Development of responsive front-end with HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Development of custom and re-usable components in form of WordPress plugins and themes.
• Doing performance testing and optimizing websites.
• Lead website development for projects, working alongside a team of developers in creating, maintaining, and updating the client's websites
• Oversee the development for website redesign projects by working closely with other internal developers
• Direct the team on sprint requirements and output
• Evaluate completed work and offer answers to roadblocks
• Troubleshoot for website issues and bugs, brainstorm options and provide client-friendly explanations for solutions
• Lead the UX strategy for new web projects to develop the proposed sitemap, wireframes, and user flows, based on the client’s needs
• Complete the front-end development tasks, including website maintenance, plugin updates, CSS improvements, and post creation
• Collaborate directly with designers to implement designs and provide feedback if necessary
• Ensure the websites are client-friendly, and have an intuitive back-end to allow for easy content and page updates
• Participate in client meetings, WordPress back-end training sessions and create training materials as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience with WordPress custom theme & plugin development
• Prolific experience in WordPress
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Understanding of responsive and SEO friendly web design.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in HTML and CSS
• Demonstrable experience in UX strategy & methodologies
• Prolific experience in JS and building responsive and accessible websites
• Solid understanding of web standards, cross-browser behaviour, and performance
• Develop user-friendly backend with PHP, custom fields, ACF or Gutenberg
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Working ability to translate designs into semantic, accessible front-end code
• Familiarity with web servers and deploying code with GitHub
• Prior experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar design applications
• Nice to have knowledge of SEO and Google Analytics
• Fluent in verbal and written English

Skill-set

PHP, WordPress, Web APIs, Database, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Git version control, CI/CD, SEO, Responsive web design

What we offer

• Growth-oriented culture
• Limitless learning opportunities by working with cutting-edge tech stacks and with a diverse and talented team
• Excellent compensation with competitive benefits and rejuvenation time off
• Flexible work environment
• A chance to make an impact on our business strategy using your work

• Develop and Integrate Django backend and API's with frontend framework.
• Develop Angular applications
• Working closely with UX and Front-end Developers
• Participating in architectural, design and product discussions
• Designing and creating RESTful APIs for internal and partner consumption
• Working in an agile environment with an excellent team of engineers

• Good experience developing Angular applications into production
• Good experience with the Django REST framework
• Strong understanding of the Angular framework as well as javascript, jQuery and HTML/CSS
• Good experience on designing and structuring of database most likely ORM (i.e MongoDB)
• Knowledge of how to build and use with RESTful APIs
• Good experience of Python coding skills
• Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, svn, etc.)
• Experience deploying Python applications into production

• - Work with UX and Product Management teams to design software
• - Work with Architects and Engineering leads to build scalable software
• - Back-end software development
• - Proficient in low level system arch design
• - Strong knowledge of web development - MVC, React / Angular Framework
• - Take Product Ownership
• - Testing and fixing bugs
• - Create security and data protection settings
• - Build features with a mobile responsive design
• - Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology, Behavior Driven Development, and CI/CD
• - Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way

• - 3+ years of industry experience as a Backend/Full Stack Engineer
• - Degree in Computer Science or related field
• - Experience with developing web and mobile applications
• - Must have 2-5 years of experience building applications using front end technologies like – React, Angular 2+, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap 
• - Must have 2-5 years of full time Python (Django) experience, and hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• - Ability to write optimized codes, debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs.
• - Proficiency with Python or relevant back-end scripting language
• - Proficiency with SQL/NoSQL databases, web servers (e.g. Nginx)
• - Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS), relevant microservices and load scaling
• - Maintains a strong knowledge base of new open source tech stacks, applications, techniques, and skills

• - A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
• - Great attention to details

• - Experience with serverless deployment  (e.g. Lambda)
• - Experience with API testing software (e.g. Postman)
• - Experience with multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/CSS, JS)
• - Good Humor

Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Work on an intranet portal for excellent employee user experience and productivity using Java full stack tools (React/Angular + Java (Spring boot)
2. Support Web App built for employee IT Applications provisioning process.
3. Take static design components and develop solutions to elevate work into engaging digital experiences.
4. Collaborate with the team to build backend code and integrations as needed.
5. Develop user interfaces that are standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible, and performance-optimized.
6. Create and maintain a repository of common and reusable code.
7. Develop and maintain documentation for code.

Qualifications & Skills:

1. Hands on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React (or Angular with willingness to explore React)
2. 6+ years of experience in Java full stack web app development
3. Familiarity with developing custom components as well as using component libraries such as MUI/Bootstrap/Ant Design
4. Comfortable navigating inside a UNIX/Linux environment
5. Ability to write REST APIs and consume with AJAX calls
6. Experience with Java/ Core Java

Perks and Benefits:

1. Attractive Bonus and Stock options for eligible positions
2. A whole suite of best in class leave bouquet: Paid Time Off , Maternity leave, Paternity leave, Sick leave, Casual Leaves, National Holidays  etc.
3. Medical insurance benefits of 5L covering parents (including COVID hospitalization)
4. Learning and Development - certification reimbursement (as applicable)
5. Host of benefits to curate your salary as per your need
6. Relocation benefits
7. World class office infrastructure with Gaming rooms, plush pantry and Break out areas. 

About YEXT:

The ultimate source for official answers about a business online should be the business itself. However, when consumers ask questions on company websites, too often they are left in the dark with wrong answers. Yext (NYSE: YEXT), the Search Experience Cloud, solves this problem by organizing a business's facts so it can provide official answers to consumer questions — wherever people search. Starting with the company website, then extending across search engines and voice assistants, businesses around the world, like Taco Bell, Marriott, and Jaguar Land Rover—as well as organizations like the U.S. State Department—trust Yext to radically improve the search experience on their websites and across the entire search ecosystem.

Yext is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

• Must have knowledge in Angular or React frontend and Node JS
• Write reusable, testable, efficient code
• Knowledge of creating front-end applications using HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.
• Candidates should have Knowledge of recent Angular versions and should be comfortable working independently.
• Should have working experience with database modeling, ability to plan DB schema and write queries with ease(MongoDB, MYSQL, Redis)
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Comfortable working with Git/Github
• Ability and willingness to manage multiple projects and tasks.

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing existing ruby on rail projects and any future interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating and building the front-end elements required by our team into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• Be an individual contributor and a team player.
• Be able to lead a development project from scratch to execution.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Creating back-end components.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Skills

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Liquid, Slim, etc which will keep on changing based on our technology stack.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Sass, based on project requirements
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, CICD pipeline.
• Familiarity with Graphql and React framework is a bonus.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.