Frontend WordPress Developer

Walker Sands

About Walker Sands:

Walker Sands is a full-service B2B marketing agency with core capabilities in public relations, demand generation, branding, creative, marketing strategy and web. The firm’s integrated approach to marketing drives awareness, credibility and conversions for 100+ clients around the world. An eight-time Inc. 5000 honoree, Walker Sands is one of the fastest-growing B2B marketing agencies in the world, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. Learn more at walkersands.com.

https://www.walkersands.com/

Position Details

Frontend WordPress Developer
Job
Full-time
11/19/2020
Chicago Illinois
Chicago, IL

We’re looking for a motivated frontend web developer willing to take on challenging projects and find creative solutions, both individually and as part of our team.

Daily work will include building custom websites from design files on WordPress or other CMS. You will create websites, landing pages and other types of interactive marketing pieces. You’ll be working with a full team of content writers, SEO analysts, back-end developers and designers to create and execute digital strategies.

We work in a collaborative environment and we expect employees to be actively engaged in every aspect of their teams and projects, and we encourage our people to generate ideas for their own projects.

Our Expectations:

We’re looking for a frontend developer with between three and five years of experience building websites, apps or other interactive and code-driven projects. We require a solid understanding of HTML and CSS, which you will use to implement modern responsive websites. You should have the ability to support outdated browsers when necessary. You should have a strong working knowledge of JavaScript and corresponding libraries, including jQuery.

You should be able to optimize all code to run quickly and effectively on all types of devices and browsers. We expect developers to write clean and standards-compliant code in a fast paced work environment.

While you will not be responsible for design, we expect you to provide UX insights, UI definitionand collaborate with designers & other developers to create a high-value final product for our clients.

Requirements:

  • At least 3 years of industry experience in front-end web development 
  • HTML/CSS expertise 
  • Responsive website development experience 
  • WordPress 5 theme creation, from scratch, without a starter template or CSS framework 
  • JavaScript (JSON, jQuery) development and testing experience 
  • Experience wireframing and defining the UX and UI of interactive web pages 
  • Understanding of design principles 
  • Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & Illustrator) familiarity (for taking a design to code) 
  • Pixel perfect translation of designs to HTML/CSS that renders cross-browser and device (desktop, tablet and phone) 
  • Experience with speed/performance testing and optimizing websites and pages for speed 
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively work on a cross-functional collaborative web development team 
  • Stellar communication skills 
  • Strong work ethic and personal task management skills

Beneficial Skills:

  • Mac Terminal 
  • Sass 
  • Linux (LAMP) server environment management and setup 
  • PHP and MySQL 
  • ASP and Microsoft SQL Server 
  • App development iOS or Android 
  • Experience managing WordPress (setup, maintenance, caching, and customization) 
  • Marketing Automation integration (such as Pardot, Marketo or HubSpot) 
  • Creating and testing HTML email templates 
  • Schema markup 
  • AMP Search Engine Optimization 
  • GIT 
  • CDN usage

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