Headquarters: Remote
URL: tri.be
The Opportunity
Modern Tribe, the company behind The Events Calendar, is looking for a Senior Backend Developer with advanced WordPress experience to join our product team. Do you have a near encyclopedic knowledge of what was included in the last few major WordPress releases? Could you go toe to toe in a WordPress coding standard battle? Do you dream in WordPress? We want to meet you!
The Backend developer gig at Modern Tribe will offer you the opportunity to become a leader within our tribe. You will be helping to build and inspire an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale WordPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in the WordPress website and plugin development field. You need to be up to speed and knowledgeable about the most recent releases and standards of WordPress. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with the platform.
Experienced WordPress developers only!
Modern Tribe believes in quality. In our products. In our relationships. In our lives. We are 100% distributed and close as can be.
For this role specifically, you should feel comfortable wrangling a chaotic digital media project into an organized one. You should ask lots of questions and feel a need to. We are hoping you will not just project manage, but understand the project, the business goals and engage in the technology enough to be able to anticipate scope, budget and timeline challenges.
Personal Competencies
Strong communication skills
Experience working as part of a remote team
Self-motivated, detail-oriented
Strong organizational skills
A methodical approach to all tasks
Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision is a must
Excited to be part of a team with the potential for a long term relationship
Fluent English speaker
Knowledge & Experience
3-5 years experience working as a backend web developer on production sites
3+ years experience working on WordPress sites
Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress sites
Skilled at crafting modern PHP
A comprehensive understanding of what it takes to write secure and performant code
Thorough knowledge of WordPress, PHP and MySQL
Excellent understanding of OOP, software development life cycle and better practices
Experience working with at least one automated testing framework
Bonus Points
Examples of plugins / code that you’ve released to the open source community
Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines
Unit Testing
Experience with WPML
Experience with server technologies like Redis or ElasticSearch
Remote work experience
As a Senior WordPress Backend Developer at Modern Tribe, some of your key responsibilities will be:
Collaborate with the project strategist to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand
Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure the technical feasibility and point out potential issues
Work with a team of developers to deliver on time, on budget and on scope
Architect and develop broadly compatible new products, features, and bug fixes with consideration for accessibility, performance, and multilingual installations
Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind
Develop and maintain complex WordPress-based applications
Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns while following standards
Code review the work of other developers
Improve our internal tools, libraries and standards
Actively participate in our scrum meetings
Work with the team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests
Mentor junior developers
Location
Given the nature of this role, we’re exclusively seeking applicants located in North America who have a perfect command of the English language. Please do not apply if you are not totally fluent in English or are located / work outside of traditional U.S. business hours.
Compensation
Pay range is between $35-$50 US per hour commensurate with qualifications and experience. The gig is about 15-20 hours a week of work. This opportunity is for a part-time job, though we are always seeking longer relationships with kick-ass people.
Who We Are
Modern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).
Who You Are
We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:
HAPPY - Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
HELPFUL - Always looking for ways that you can help others.
CURIOUS - It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
ACCOUNTABLE - Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.
A FREELANCER - This means that if you live within the USA, you will also maintain your own personal client list and that Modern Tribe will only comprise a proportion of your total income. Regardless of where you live, you need to be already freelancing.
To apply: http://tri.be/careers/senior-wordpress-backend-developer-products/