Senior Wordpress Front End Engineer Job Los Angeles California USA,Software Development

Overview Of Role:

We're a fully remote web development agency looking for a part time contract Senior Word Press Front-end Engineer. This position should have an attention to detail and love to develop interactive and engaging web experiences. This person should have a keen eye for engaging animations and clean code.

Our mission:

At First&Third, it is our mission to outperform average agencies. We believe that when an agency only thinks about how to get a project done and not enough about the client’s goals, it becomes impossible for the project to be a success.

As an organization we are obsessed with helping our clients understand and achieve their objectives through thoughtful, well‑executed web design and development.

Responsibilities:

Execute - Be able to take visual designs in Figma and written specifications and turn those into semantic html/css/js that is reusable, scalable, performant, accessible and work on all major browsers

Make it move - We love to create experiences on our pages. We leverage CSS and JavaScript animation to make our pages come alive

Components - Be able to create reusable Gutenberg blocks that allow clients and product team to enter content and customize the components.

Reuse - Develop a reusable component/block library for Word Press that is reusable across client projects

Requirements:

5+ years of experience as a Word Press front-end developer.
Strong understanding of PHP, HTML and CSS including cross-browser compatibility and performance.
Ability to write modern and performant JavaScript using latest technologies.
We expect you to know your way around git and Git Hub
Understanding of continuous integration systems (Git Hub Actions, etc.)
Understanding of WCAG accessibility compliance. Ability to implement accessibility standards as well as audit existing websites.
Understanding of security best practices
Experience with front-end building tools (such as Webpack).
Experience working remotely.
Comfortable interpreting designs and/or specifications and thinking through the best approach to adapting it to code.
A solid understanding of good UX and UI practices for websites.
Familiarity with Figma and Adobe XD.
Experience with Word Press and Gutenberg with building out custom blocks.
Experience working with component systems.
Experience with Tailwind.
Experience with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
Estimating work for a project and taking specs and turning into clearly defined, executable tasks.

Nice to haves:

Experience with React
Experience with Node.js
Experience with Woo Commerce
Experience with Shopify
Ability to jump into old codebases with minimal documentation

Join Our Team!

If this sounds like it would be a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you. Here’s how the process works:

Apply:
Introduce yourself and let us know a little about yourself. Please include a resume and a summary of a recent project/product you built.

We’ll Get Together:
Virtually of course, we’ll set up a time to get to know each other, ask questions, and make sure we’re both a good fit for one another.

Take a look at work:
We like to get a sense of how you approach a problem so we’ll give you a quick project to complete.

Succeed Together:
We’ll get to work helping our clients reach their goals because when they succeed, we do too.

More about First&Third

First&Third is an agency deeply committed to helping leaders understand and achieve business goals through thoughtful, well‑executed, and expertly managed web design and development. With over 20 years of experience, we have had the privilege of working with organizations such as Lean In.Org, Facebook, Billboard Music, Girls Who Code and The Hollywood Reporter to name a few. We are proud to be a Word Press VIP and Shopify Plus partner.

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