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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:
- 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
- Make it move – We love to create experiences on our pages. We leverage CSS and JavaScript animation to make our pages come alive
- Components – Be able to create reusable Gutenberg blocks that allow clients and product team to enter content and customize the components.
- 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.