WordPress Developer and Website Support Specialist

Summary:
We’re looking for a junior to mid-level WordPress developer who can deliver high quality custom WordPress development services for our Clients and assist with responding to website support requests from our Clients.

At Stone Digital (stonedigital.com.au) we specialise in custom WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify development projects.

Key Information:
- Location Preference: Searching for non-Australia based WordPress Developer
- Job Type: Permanent, Remote
- Employment Type: Full-time or Part-Time

Requirements:
- Proficiency in PHP WordPress development eg. custom page templates and custom AJAX functions.
- Strong experience developing custom WordPress themes based on custom design mockups from Adobe XD, Figma or Sketch.
- Experience with WordPress plugin development, including development that follows “WordPress Best Practices” for Plugin Development (https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/)
- Experience developing custom features for existing popular plugins eg. Gravity Forms and WooCommerce.
- Experience with integrating third party APIs into WordPress.
- Strong communication skills and ability to liaise directly with Clients. Ability to manage client relationships on behalf of Stone Digital.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and vanilla Javascript
- Proficiency in writing clean, structured CSS that uses BEM naming convention and which avoids CSS name conflicts (https://docs.starcounter.io/v/2.3.2/guides/blendable-web-apps/avoiding-css-conflicts)
- Must be able to work at least 5 hours during Sydney work hours (9am-5pm AEDT).
You should also be comfortable speaking directly with clients and working with management on developing quotes.
- Strong communication skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.

About you:
- At least 3+ years experience developing WordPress themes.
- Be comfortable with being included in email communication with clients.
- You’ll have experience and a passion for creating all kinds of WordPress websites.

Highly regarded:
- Experience with Git and GitHub version control for custom WordPress themes and plugin development projects
- Experience with SASS, SCSS or other Style pre-processors
- Experience with advanced SQL queries and SQL database management and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Shopify and Liquid
- Experience with Gulp.js
- Experience with loading PHP Packages via Composer within custom WordPress Development.
- Experience writing vanilla JS without relying on frameworks such as jQuery.
- A good understanding of Google Analytics, goal tracking and SEO.

What we want to see next:
In your response to this Job Ad, please includes links to the following:
1) Your LinkedIn Profile
2) A portfolio link with examples of your experience with WordPress development

Who are we?
Stone Digital is a web development agency based in Sydney, Australia. We deliver high quality custom websites for Clients across a wide range of industries.

We specialise in advanced web development, which means we’re focused on solving difficult technical problems for our Client websites.

Core Values:
1) We simplify for the Client
2) We do Top Quality Work
3) We look after our team

Application Requirement:
Please include the words “Blue Elephant” at the very beginning of your response to this application, so I can verify that you actually read this job description.