Internship Wordpress Website Maintenance Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Company Description
Job Description
Role: WordPress Developer
Duration: 9+ months
Location: Summit, NJ
Job Description:
• Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance and management of Corp and Country affiliate sites on WordPress Network (Multisite) platform and other digital projects as assigned.
• The successful candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins.
• This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).
• The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems.
• Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred.
• Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
Skills:
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & defacto standard plugins
• Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
• Customizing WordPress to support specific functionality
• Creation of custom post types.
• Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.
• Creation of clean, logical, well documented and reusable code.
• Theme/template integration.
• Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) required.
• Familiar with AWS LAMP Stack Configuration
• Experience creating multilingual websites.
• eveloping wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutionsD
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Use of AJAX / Prototype / script.aculo.us an advantage.
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wire-frames into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
Responsibilities:
• Establishing and guiding the website's architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and/or plugin.
• Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest frontend and back-end technologies
• Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
• Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
• Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
• Self-motivated, goal oriented and able to work in a team environment.
• Use common sense at all times and pay close attention to detail.
• Client-facing demeanor for Training & Support.
Experience: Minimum 4 years' experience of PHP programming, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, JavaScript, XML/JSON and 3rd party APIs, Cross-platform and cross-browser, Responsive, Web standards and accessibility, Code testing, Security, Deployment
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines (MIS, Web Development, etc) preferred.
Additional Information
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