Denver - WordPress Developer (Contract)

Web Developer (Contract) – VEA Technologies

Candidates MUST be local to the Denver area. No remote applicants, no relocation is provided. No recruiters or staffing agencies please.

The Position:

We are looking for a rockstar Wordpress Developer to join our team. Bottom line: If you don't have a stellar portfolio of Wordpress websites you have personally developed, please don't apply. If you have created dozens of creative, state-of-the-art websites in Wordpress, just send us a link to your portfolio and we'd love to talk with you!

We need someone who can work remotely on a freelance basis until the position turns full time. We need someone who can multi-task and complete work in a self-managed setting. This opportunity is open-ended and remote but will require meetings with clients in the Denver area although these will be minimal.

Contract projects also require working with our Graphic Design and Consulting teams to build ADA compliant websites using provided mockups and apply mockup layouts to similar pages. The freelance Web Developer will also be responsible for creating innovative solutions to web design issues to help make the website more visually appealing and enhance usability and accessibility.

Overall experience with HTML, PHP, WordPress, other basic web design skills are required. Please include in your application a portfolio or examples of websites you have built.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• New website development, redesign, maintenance, and critical and time-sensitive repairs.
• Work directly with customer / client liaison (email, phone, screen sharing, etc.) for delivery.
• Document work on projects including documenting custom code.
• Work with hosting services (setup and management), and potentially with other vendors involved in the overall web development process.
• Respond to customers and team within defined service levels.
• Effective management of time and ability to produce cost-effective delivery.
• Work so as to accommodate business conducted in Mountain Time Zone, but not exclusively.
• Demonstrate the value of work to the customer, and ensure the work provided is of value.
• Manage projects and assignments on schedule, and within budget, and effectively manage influences and impacts to schedule and budget.

Required Skills:

• Current skills required of a full-stack WordPress web developer.
• Maintain the currency of such required skills for the development of state of the art websites.
• 5 + years of web development experience, and 3+ specific to WordPress. Knowledge of popular themes and plugins.
• Ability to work server-side in support of WordPress.
• Functional skill with CSS and HTML.
• Knowledge of site optimization in regards to web development.
• Adobe skills or similar for image optimization and scaled images.
• Can manage multiple website projects at one time, with the willingness to do so.
• Good customer facing skills, with the ability to listen and to establish rapport, to ask the right questions, and to quickly establish specifications from non-technical people.
• Team-oriented. Ability to work in a team with graphic designers, marketing specialists, testers, etc. to deliver a quality website.
• Solid prioritization skills with understanding of critical path, and the ability and willingness to balance several ongoing assignments.
• Responsiveness – this is critical, such as when a customer’s site malfunctions.
• Accountability -- absolutely necessary.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, with a team and independently.
• Value learning and growing, working in teams, and working with a range of clients in diverse industries.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with VEA Technologies (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).