LawnStarter is the nation’s main on-demand market for garden care and associated companies, permitting tons of of hundreds of shoppers nationwide to e book a service with the faucet of a button. However garden care is barely the start – our imaginative and prescient is to turn into the one-stop store for all dwelling companies.
Our firm is flourishing at an unbelievable tempo, worthwhile and reaching outstanding success. And we’re not stopping there! We’re actively searching for gifted and hard-working people such as you to affix our crew and assist us obtain our final imaginative and prescient.
Position Overview:
We’re searching for a talented WordPress Engineer to affix our crew. The best candidate is captivated with WordPress growth, has a robust understanding of internet applied sciences, and is dedicated to delivering high-quality options. As a WordPress Engineer, you’ll collaborate with our crew to design, develop, and keep WordPress web sites and purposes that meet our enterprise wants and goals whereas optimizing them for prime pace and website positioning efficiency. This can be a contractor place.
Tasks:
- Develop customized WordPress themes and plugins from scratch, guaranteeing responsiveness and optimum efficiency throughout varied units and browsers.
- Customise and prolong present WordPress themes and plugins to fulfill particular undertaking necessities.
- Collaborate with designers, undertaking managers, and different builders to translate design mockups and undertaking necessities into practical WordPress web sites and purposes.
- Conduct code opinions and supply constructive suggestions to crew members to make sure code high quality, consistency, and adherence to finest practices.
- Carry out upgrades for WordPress, plugins, themes, and PHP.
- Optimize WordPress websites for prime pace and efficiency, implementing strategies akin to caching, lazy loading, picture optimization, and minimizing HTTP requests.
- Implement website positioning finest practices to enhance website visibility and rating, together with optimizing website construction, meta tags, heading tags, and schema markup.
- Make the most of instruments akin to Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and Lighthouse to investigate and enhance website efficiency, aiming for prime scores and quick loading occasions.
- Troubleshoot and debug points that come up through the growth and testing phases, implementing efficient options in a well timed method.
- Keep up-to-date with the most recent tendencies and developments in WordPress growth, internet efficiency optimization, and website positioning strategies, repeatedly enhancing your expertise and sharing information with the crew.
- Take part in undertaking planning, estimation, and scoping discussions, contributing technical experience and insights to make sure undertaking success.
- Collaborate with website positioning and Editorial groups to determine new alternatives for website enhancements and content material optimization.
- Exhibit an autonomous mindset in managing your workload, proactively figuring out and proposing new alternatives for enhancing our WordPress initiatives.
Necessities
- Bachelor’s diploma in Laptop Science, Engineering, or associated subject (or equal expertise).
- Confirmed expertise as a WordPress Developer or WordPress Engineer, with a robust portfolio showcasing your WordPress initiatives.
- Proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, with a strong understanding of internet growth rules and finest practices.
- In depth expertise with WordPress theme and plugin growth, together with customized theme and plugin creation from scratch.
- Robust understanding of internet efficiency optimization strategies and website positioning finest practices.
- Expertise optimizing WordPress websites for prime pace and efficiency, together with reaching excessive scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and different efficiency testing instruments.
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks/libraries akin to React.js, Vue.js, or AngularJS is a plus.
- Robust problem-solving expertise and a focus to element, with the flexibility to successfully troubleshoot and debug points.
- Glorious communication and collaboration expertise, with the flexibility to work successfully in a crew setting.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with a ardour for studying and staying present with business tendencies and applied sciences.
- Expertise with reverse proxy architectures and dealing on reverse proxy WordPress websites.
- Robust concentrate on customized WordPress growth quite than plugin-heavy options, with expertise constructing customized themes and performance from scratch.
- Should present examples of WordPress websites constructed or considerably modified, together with rationalization of your particular contributions to every undertaking.
- Expertise with technical website positioning implementation on the code stage, past fundamental plugin configuration.
- English resume required.
Advantages
- Nice Tradition: One of many high locations to work in Austin in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and within the US in 2021, we’re all in regards to the crew. That is why we have now spent a large period of time discovering humble, passionate, and sensible of us that you’re going to get to work with daily.
- Work from the consolation of your individual dwelling
- Alternative for progress
- $45,000 – 60,000 USD yearly, relying on expertise