Senior Wordpress developer

Indiegraf is seeking to hire a highly skilled and experienced Senior WordPress Developer responsible for both back and front-end development. This position requires deep domain expertise in Wordpress, React and interacting with RESTful APIs to extend core functionality.

This position starts as soon as possible. Applicants that are based and eligible to work in Canada are welcome to apply. This job is fully remote.

As part of your application, please submit coding samples demonstrating the required skills for this job. You can share a link to your GitHub repo containing multiple code samples. Candidates who share coding samples will be given preference in the hiring process.

Please only apply via indiegraf.bamboohr.com/careers

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Lead Developer build custom blocks, plugins and API integrations
• Craft documentation for implementation team to apply cross network
• Customize and extend existing themes and plugins to meet project requirements, or develop custom plugins from scratch if necessary
• Work in a collaborative development environment using GitHub
• Elevate Indiegraf s coding practices and standards
  
  

Key Skills & Competencies:

• A minimum of 10 years of development experience with Wordpress, PHP (Object oriented, Autoloading, PSR), React, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
• Must possess advanced React experience
• Knowledge of Wordpress coding standards and PHP coding standards
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML) and the ability to extend Wordpress REST API for custom routes
• Integrate third-party APIs, create custom functionalities, and manage databases to enhance the overall functionality and user interaction of the websites
• Knowledge of CI/CD workflows
• Experience with package/build management tools like Composer, NPM, Webpack
• Ability to extend Wordpress customizer and Site options to create custom settings for the theme
• Identify and resolve technical issues, bugs, and compatibility problems that may arise during the development phase
• Experience developing responsive websites
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools using Github
• Ability to meet deadlines and be flexible to changing priorities
• Ability to efficiently manage time based on business priorities
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work
  

In line with Indiegraf's company values, we are seeking new team members who:

• love learning and sharing. We believe that constantly testing, gathering data and listening to feedback drives innovation. You are willing to learn and share with humility and are obsessed with seeking feedback to refine your work.
• are committed to equity and inclusion. Indiegraf is on a mission to change who owns media so that it better serves everyone. We want to work with people who are mindful of the power dynamics in everything they do and who contribute to an equitable work environment.
• are energized by growth. Creating new products and processes is your thing. Being part of a big, ambitious vision excites you. You're not afraid of change. You love taking chances and being accountable to goals.
• are always seeking ways to do things more efficiently. Indiegraf is scaling a network of independent news outlets that can succeed in markets where traditional news models fail because they are more efficient. Our team is obsessed with replicability, scalability and cost efficiency.
• value a healthy work culture. We are a mission-driven, female-led company shaking up legacy news media dynamics. We work hard and unplug most weekends and during vacations. You want to contribute to a great culture that makes our team love Mondays. We are collaborative, and strive to win together as a team.

Benefits of working for Indiegraf:

• Health and dental benefits after three months;
• Participation in Employee Stock Option Plan after three months;
• Flexible vacation and paid sick day policies;
• Professional development and advancement opportunities; and
• Commitment to an equitable, collaborative and connected work environment that nurtures our team s well-being.

About Indiegraf:

Indiegraf is a fast-growing, women-led technology startup with staff in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Brazil. Indiegraf provides a fully-integrated technology and shared services solution that makes it easy for small and medium-sized content businesses to grow their audience and revenue for a lower cost than piecing together multiple vendors. Our mission is to lower the barrier to entry for news entrepreneurs so that all communities have access to quality local news.

Headquartered in Vancouver Canada, we launched in May 2020 and now support publishers across North America in English, Spanish and French. We have attracted funding from Google, New Media Ventures, the Knight Foundation, Mucker Capital and other venture and impact funders who help make our goals to scale our impact possible.

• Read this story to find out what inspires the Indiegraf team to do what we do.
• Peruse our weekly newsletter to read about how the news entrepreneurs we support are making an impact.
• Watch our co-founder Erin Millar s five minute Newsgeist talk on why small is future of the media industry.
  

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive company. We encourage candidates with a range of perspectives, abilities, backgrounds and experience to apply.