As one of the South Africa’s fastest growing digital marketing companies, we are expanding rapidly and are looking for an experienced and self-sufficient Web Developer who has extensive experience in producing high quality WordPress based sites for varied customers and requirements.
Specific duties include (but not limited to):
- The creation and implementation of a wide variety of Web-based applications using WordPress and (ideally) also PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.
- Write “clean”, well designed code.
- Work with Project Managers to give ongoing updates on expected timelines and to request clarification of any missing or unclear requirements.
- Participate in a team-oriented environment to develop complex web-based applications.
- Reliably deliver on assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality.
- Create technical design documentation.
- Provide input into to business decisions from a technical perspective, such as performance, reliability, scalability and security.
Ideally (but not required), the candidate would have experience in:
- Code repositories (e.g. BitBucket)
- E-Commerce (e.g. CS-Cart)
- WordPress themes such as BeThemes
- PHP Development (especially the Laravel Framework)
- UI/UX and graphic design