Front End Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled Front-End Developer with advanced experience in WordPress development to join our client's team on a five month contract. This role is perfect for someone with a deep understanding of custom WordPress solutions and a passion for building scalable, high-performance websites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes with a strong focus on performance and scalability.
• Work within enterprise-level WordPress Multisite environments and implement parent/child theme structures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions within constrained deployment pipelines.
• Optimize websites for performance, accessibility, and security.
• Use command-line tools for efficient development and deployment.
• Manage code versioning using Git and maintain clean, modular code using modern web development standards.
• Extensive experience with WordPress development, including custom-built themes (starter themes and no-code plugin kits are excluded).
• Experience working as an all-around developer in three or more of the following contexts:
• Enterprise-level WordPress Multisite
• 100% custom-built themes
• WordPress parent/child theme structure
• Block-based or hybrid (block/classic) theme structure
• Large, diverse backend user bases
• WP-CLI for development and automation tasks
• Proficiency in PHP 8.0+ and comfortable working with the command line.
• Solid understanding of modern front-end technologies and languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XPath.
• Familiarity with Pantheon platform (or similar hosting environments), nginx, npm, webpack, Bash, and other modern development tools.

Preferred Tooling & Work Environment:

• macOS environment
• VSCode as the primary IDE
• Command-line proficiency for managing deployment and development workflows.
• Use of Google Docs and Sheets for collaboration.