Front End Developer

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Front end Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

Front End Developers are required to work in teams alongside Back end Developers, Graphic Designers and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Back and front end development
• Creating WordPress themes and plugins
• Building wordpress websites based on approved designs
• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping to formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme.
• Manage website staging environments and deployments into live environment
• Perform regular website backups and updates

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the latest industry trends and content management systems
• 3 – 5 years’ relevant experience as a web developer/wordpress developer
• Experience in front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experience building user interfaces for websites
• 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 wireframes into working HTML pages
• Understanding of PHP back-end development
• Working knowledge of the Elementor plugin will be an advantage
• Project management and client communications capabilities