Senior WordPress Developer

The Position

AKOS is seeking a Senior Wordpress & PHP developer to join our development team. As a part of our team, you will help develop custom solutions and provide technical consultation to our design, business development and project management teams. We offer a fun and casual environment, while also demand high quality code within client deadlines.

Things You Will Own (Responsibilities)

Receive & review comps from project managers.
Prepare assets from design files (usually Sketch/XD/Figma).
Set up and execute development in a local environment.
Use our base starter theme, version control, and staging server for project consistency and continuity
Build the project following the provided design comps, pushing database changes to staging and code to version control regularly.
Coordinate with the project manager to implement changes as needed.
Deploy the completed site to the production server, maintaining the integrity of the code base as required, over time.

Things You Must Have (Requirements):

Minimum 5 years experience with custom development in WordPress
Ability to create themes from scratch using a base (e.g., Underscores, Tonik, Joints, Bones)
Expertise in using version control systems like Github, Gitlab, or Bitbucket
Ability to create custom plugins
Create custom post types and taxonomies without a plugin
Ability to create meta boxes without Advanced Custom Fields
Strong knowledge of WP actions, hooks, and filters
Experience with WordPress Cron scheduling
Gutenberg block editor, Elementor, Beaver Builder customization experience a plus
REST API knowledge a huge plus
Experience with custom development in other popular CMS platforms, such as Drupal, Craft, Contentful a plus
Familiarity with Bootstrap, Foundation, UI Kit, Tailwindcss or similar framework.
Familiarity with PHPStorm, npm/yarn, Webpack, WP-CLI and similar tools
Knowledge of accessibility best practices
Knowledge of SEO best practices
We use Advanced Custom Fields & Gravity Forms on nearly every project, so familiarity with those is a plus.

Qualifications

10 or more custom WordPress website builds or 5-10 years experience in the development field.
Agency experience is a plus.

The Person

This applicant should take initiative for introducing new opportunities in development, be unafraid to speak up, and know when to put their head down to work in a time-sensitive crunch. While always being respectful, they’re not opposed to the use of highly profane language while maintaining a professional demeanor. A constant learner, this person stays on top of blogs, news and books relevant to their industry. They must be self-taught in something--we don’t care if it’s guitar or the language of Mandarin.

This person should be open to accepting all genres of people with no regard to gender orientation, ethnicity or belief.

The Company

AKOS is an experience-first development agency specializing in custom built websites, web and hybrid mobile applications. We are dedicated to making people feel things in the digital space.

Our network is broad. We are at times professional and often informal. We are candid with each other, we make suggestions for improvements relevant to best practices in our field, and overall level-up our team.

How To Apply:

Email: work@akosweb.com. Tell us all about yourself. Your experience, hobbies, likes, and loves.