WordPress Web Developer

Cheef Holdings is moving to the heart of Hollywood! If you have a passion for people and pet wellness, we’d love to hear from you. Cheef is one of the fastest growing digital marketing companies in the CBD wellness space and we are looking for exceptional talent to join us on this exciting journey!

Cheef Holdings is a Los Angeles-based pets and people health & wellness company in the organic food industry providing the highest grade CBD products. Our mission is to educate the world about the power of natural, safe, and effective cannabinoids found in the hemp plant. Through our brands, Holistapet, and Cheef Botanicals, we want to bring back the stability, balance, and equilibrium that your body, and your pets, was meant to have. It’s our aim to provide access to useful education, research, and share with you real customer experiences through forums, social media, and news articles.

Our team has big ambitions and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are an early-stage startup gaining serious traction with a strong brand presence and leadership. We’re growing quickly, and we’ll give you the opportunity to do the same. Cheef Holdings is a D2C health & wellness company, specializing in hemp & CBD-based products.

We are seeking a WordPress Developer responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on). The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. Experience with responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred. Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate fast, effective, responsive design while working with themes and plugins.
• Analyzing website performance and troubleshooting errors
• Handling the backend of the website, including database and server integration

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• 3+ years of experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• WordPress: 3 years (Preferred)
• PHP: 3 years (Preferred)
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development

Cheef Holdings is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace all people and their pets, and what they bring to our enterprise and mission.