Full-Stack WordPress Developer

Uscreen is a SaaS company with an amazing global team, helping creators and companies monetize their videos online. Video monetization is a fast-growing market, and so far, we have established ourselves as the industry leaders, and we aim to solidify that position. To do so, we’re looking for a new addition to our team: Full-Stack WordPress Developer, to come in and help us build and create new pages, and optimize our website.

Our team is incredibly passionate, smart, supportive, skilled, open to learning, happy to take constructive criticism and implement it. We’re looking for someone who can match that energy and help us scale.

About The Role:

You will be working closely with the SEO Lead and Marketing Team, primarily focusing on WordPress Development. This position requires a healthy amount of communication, both written and spoken, with several stakeholders, so proficiency in English is required. This is an exciting, dynamic role that involves creating new pages, building new Gutenberg blocks, and leaving plenty of room for experiments to drive innovation and push the boundaries of WP.

We are growing and things change rapidly, so you need to also be able to shift priorities very easily and maintain your flexibility in working with other team members and teams.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Website development and widget implementation
• Gutenberg block development.
• Continuous optimizations on site performance.
• Implementing SEO changes and UX best practices
• Provide constructive feedback
• Monitoring, Maintaining, and updating the site
• Keeping site secure
• Collaborate with designers
• Managing hosting, CDN, and server side optimizations.

Requirements:

• Effective communication skills including a solid understanding of English grammar and professional writing ability
• 5+ years experience in PHP/WordPress development
• You are a master in HTML, CSS/SCSS/SASS.
• Advanced proficiency with PHP and MySQL, including modern PHP practices.
• Strong familiarity with JavasScript (vanilla JS, jQuery, ES6, etc).
• Strong familiarity and experience with WordPress Gutenberg, the block editor.
• Ability to build new blocks and components to expand WP functionalities.
• Strong familiarity with using Git and GitHub as a version control tool for WP development.
• Ability to use and extend build tools like gulp and webpack.
• Understanding Image Compression, responsiveness, server-side WebP conversion and deliverability.
• Experience working with CDNs and Managed WP Hostings.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and the ability to work with different APIs.

Ideal Candidate (not required):

• Understanding the Basics of Technical SEO
• Experience working and managing Web Application Firewalls

Benefits:

• Full-time (40 hours per week).
• 100% Remote – Work from anywhere (OK, almost anywhere…), as long as you are able to work your scheduled hours and attend team meetings.  Central European Timezone candidates are preferred.
• 20 paid days off per year (eligible after your first 90-days)
• 2 Company Holidays
• Remote Office Equipment Reimbursement (up to $500 USD)
• Budget for personal development
• Co-working stipend (based on location/need/safety due to global pandemic)

How to apply:

• Apply here
• We review the applications and email candidates who qualify for the second round
• The qualified candidates will be asked to do a test task: usually a video of yourself answering a few questions
• After we review the submissions, we will organize a Skype interview with the successful candidates

Uscreen is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.

The determination to move applicants forward in our hiring process will be based on how the candidates’ skills, qualifications, knowledge, and experience meet the requirements of the position as outlined in this job posting.

Please note that due to the large number of applications received, that we are thrilled about, we are only able to respond to qualified candidates at this time.  Should you be selected to move forward in the recruiting process you will be notified within 2-weeks of your submission.