WordPress Developer – remote

For over ten years, HappyFunCorp has been helping businesses develop great products and deliver technical solutions with a blend of strong engineering skills, human-focused design, and culture that makes working with us enjoyable. We’ve worked closely with startups as well as Fortune 500 companies to innovate across a variety of verticals. Though we’re headquartered in Brooklyn, NYC, we embrace remote work, and it’s been part of our DNA from the start.

Our team of over 70 sharp and talented engineers, designers, and product architects hail from diverse backgrounds, bringing empathy and business savvy to every project and relationship we take on. Whether you’re looking to take an idea from concept to production, improve an existing product, or handle a complicated digital transformation project, we can help.

MISSION

As a WordPress Developer with HappyFunCorp, you will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development, including the implementation of themes and plugins. Your goal is to create attractive and user-friendly websites according to the design and functionality specifications. We work on a diverse portfolio of client projects, and our engineers get to solve challenging technical problems at scale.

This role is a part-time contract position. The Pay Rate is $40-50/hr and you must be able to overlap with EST time zone.

Specifically, you will be…

• Developing, maintaining, and writing WordPress, WooCommerce themes and plugins using PHP and JavaScript
• Extending WordPress Core using hooks, plugins and patches
• Developing Gutenberg blocks in React
• Building headless WordPress websites
• Working on RESTful integrations
• Developing performative front-end using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React
• Using Git on a daily basis
• Collaborating with other developers on larger-scale projects
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies

Requirements

• A history of architecting, building, and maintaining excellent WordPress sites with clean code
• Extensive experience generating WordPress themes and plugins
• In-depth knowledge of front-end programming languages and technologies such as vanilla Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, and React
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browser
• Building responsive interfaces and debugging for variety of devices and browsers
• PostCSS and CSS preprocessors like SASS
• Experience with building custom Gutenberg blocks with React
• Strong understanding of modern PHP backend development (OOP, Composer, PHP7)
• Designed and managed the backend including database and server integration
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML), WP-REST-API
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools including Git
• Writing code with a focus on performance
• Strong eye for aesthetics and attention to detail
• Strong content management skills
• Experience conducting website performance tests and troubleshooting content issues
• Willingness to take extreme ownership of your work

NICE TO HAVE

• Some experience with running commands with WP-CLI
• PHPUnit and E2E testing
• Experience with build tools such as Gulp and WebPack
• Setting up environments with Vagrant and / or Docker
• Familiarity with the package management tools
• CI/CD workflows
• Familiarity of server technologies such as ElasticSearch
• Experience in ecommerce and implementing analytics tracking

Benefits

HFC is a good fit for entrepreneurially-minded doers that learn and adapt quickly and have a passion for what they do. What we look for is someone with experience turning ideas into fully-fledged products. We offer competitive pay, a fully remote company culture, and the opportunity to work on cool projects with great people. If this sounds like you, send us your application!

COMPANY VALUES

Creative Optimism

For us, building better products is dreaming bigger futures. We create not just products but capacity, empowering our clients with novel and thoughtful solutions. In an industry founded on dynamic change we know curiosity is our utility belt, and are constantly considering technology’s potential, changing real-world contexts, and what out-of-the-box thinking means today — or tomorrow.

Dignity

We value each other not just as co-workers or clients but people, whose varied interests, diverse lives, and myriad relationships make us unique. The ways we work together support all the lives HFCers live outside the office: we take proactive work/life balance measures, respect each other’s time, and maintain a culture of consideration first.

Equity

HappyFunCorp is diverse in multiple dimensions : gender identity, sexuality, neurotype, ability, religion, race, and region. Since our inception, we’ve actively recruited colleagues with different backgrounds, lives, and experiences worldwide for both entry and leadership roles. We understand equity needs a long-term, persistent approach and treat it as a constantly-renewing process, but engage the real needs of team members today.

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Half the joy of learning what’s past the next hill is how you get there. We help countless companies launch, grow, or realize their potential every year, and stay active partners as they develop. Technical agility, multidisciplinary experience, and a work ethic that cares about results help us cross-apply what we’ve learned to meet new challenges with more creative solutions.

Trust

Trust is HappyFunCorp’s deepest belief: that the best way to build businesses efficiently and with excellence is to trust each other’s expertise — and be worthy of each other’s trust. We take ownership of our work and create generous room to float that next idea. Our greatest joy is working collaboratively with such a symphony of talent — and helping each other develop into the best musicians we can be.