Job Title: WordPress Developer
Location: Worldwide / Remote / Work from Home
Job Type: Internship/Contract/Permanent/Agency Hire
Hours: Full Time/Part-Time
The Role:
We are looking for WordPress Developer Interns to join the highest tier of our support team working in a complex application that spans dozens of add-ons which do everything from integrating with 3rd party services to processing money through gateways and improving the base product with exciting new features.
Our products are constantly growing and improving, so this requires thinking about how to create a core product that is extensible. This requires a strong understanding of application architecture, OOP PHP skills, and JS + React skills. We push the boundaries of modern WordPress architecture, so if you feel ready to jump into this and hit the ground running, then we’re looking for you!
In this role, you would get to debug complex plugin use cases, develop extensions to support our customer base, bug fix plugins, share your debugging experience and techniques with the broader support team, and work with development engineers to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers.
What your Day might look like:
- Review, debug and respond to technical support requests
- Assist in the training of support staff on debugging and code exploration
- Assist in the development of new support solutions and maintain existing solutions
- Work with stakeholders, team lead, founder to understand requirements and objectives
- Create, review, and update technical documentation
- Keep apprised of relevant new technology and best practices
- Execute bug fixes
- Measure results of implemented solutions
- Participate in troubleshooting/triaging of issues and document them appropriately
- Resolving core web vital issues
- Documenting the bug fixing process
- Interacting with the testers, Share using screen sharing tool the process
Skills Required:
- 1+ years’ experience in the WordPress space
- Experience with MySQL
- Basic knowledge of the product development life cycle
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Experience crafting modern PHP (autoloading, dependency injection, templating libraries, automated testing, OOP, Symfony or Laravel)
- Low to mid-level vanilla JavaScript experience (webpack, babel, ES2015+ syntax)
- Advanced HTML & CSS (Post CSS or Sass, BEM methodology)
- Comfortable working in a Linux environment
- A passion for improving software/systems
- Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision
Good to Have:
- Customer service experience
- Experience building WordPress plugins and/or themes
- Experience with builder plugins/themes (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, etc.)
- Experience with commerce plugins (WooCommerce, EDD, payment gateways, etc.)
- Experience with developing blocks for the Block Editor
- Experience with JS application frameworks
- Accessibility knowledge (WAI-ARIA, WCAG 2.0+ AA/Section 508)
Tools Necessary:
- Good working laptop/desktop
- Smartphone to access incoming/outgoing calls
- Good internet connection
What you will learn:
- Real-life projects to refine your skills
- Complex WordPress usage
- Plugin development and management
The benefits of the internship programme:
- Ease the transition from study to work
- Increase your skills and knowledge
- Improve your understanding of a particular job or industry
- Provide you with useful industry contacts
- Show you other roles you may not have previously considered
- Prepare you for the future
- Help you gain insight into how organisations operate and the challenges they face
- Provide networking opportunities
- Give you real work examples for future interviews
- A supervisor who may serve as a referee in future applications
Develop Workplace Soft Skills:
- Time management, reporting and collaborative problem-solving
- Remote teamwork in a multicultural environment
- Organisational skills and attention to detail
- Maintaining company secrecy with professionalism
Learn Corporate Productivity Tools:
- ClickUp – Collaborative task management tool
- Worksnaps – Timesheet reporting
- Outlook – Email setup and organization
- OneDrive – Cloud storage for document sharing
- Cloze – CRM tool
- Zoom – Attending corporate meetings
- Calendar Management – Meeting scheduling and minute-taking
- Content creation platforms – Envato, iMovie, Canva, Unsplash