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Responsibilities

• Cover the web design spectrum from UI/UX design in Sketch or Figma to implementing the designs in HTML/CSS (for complex interactivity and applications, you’ll work together with our frontend engineers)
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders on user flows that build the foundation for UI/UX designs.
• Work closely with engineers as you build, iterate on, and ship ideas.
• Create product component libraries and technical guidelines.
• Occasionally support our marketing and business development team with work on social media design assets, presentations for client handoffs, new business pitches, digital assets for events, and content for blogs posts and talks.

Skills – Must-Have

• 2-3 years experience
• experience designing and building responsive web sites
• knowledge of design systems and guidelines
• ability to create and update wireframes, mockups, and (digital) prototypes using Sketch, Figma, etc.
• ability to articulate your design decisions and presenting your work to others
• experience collaborating with product managers, engineers and project stakeholders in general

• experience with motion design would be a welcome
• knowledge of frontend frameworks is a plus but not required

What we offer

• We are a fully remote company. All team members get to choose whether they work from home or a co-working space close to them. Both options are supported with a dedicated budget
• Self-guided work on interesting projects for international clients
• A flextime schedule to accommodate the needs of caretakers
• A flat organization with little process standing in your way
• Regular company events to meet your team in person
• An international, communicative and supportive team and a flexible work environment

Diversity

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a wider outlook of our team that not only improves our working atmosphere but also increases our productivity as a company. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our team wherever we can and encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it. We ensure that our workshops and other events organized by us are accessible to a wide part of the tech community by ensuring these events are free or by providing diversity sponsorships for people who are yet underrepresented in tech.

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Role Overview:

We are seeking a skilled WordPress Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is passionate about WordPress development, has a strong understanding of web technologies, and is committed to delivering high-quality solutions. As a WordPress Engineer, you will collaborate with our team to design, develop, and maintain WordPress websites and applications that meet our business needs and objectives while optimizing them for high speed and SEO performance. This is a contractor position.

Responsibilities:

• Develop custom WordPress themes and plugins from scratch, ensuring responsiveness and optimal performance across various devices and browsers.
• Customize and extend existing WordPress themes and plugins to meet specific project requirements.
• Collaborate with designers, project managers, and other developers to translate design mockups and project requirements into functional WordPress websites and applications.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices.
• Perform upgrades for WordPress, plugins, themes, and PHP.
• Optimize WordPress sites for high speed and performance, implementing techniques such as caching, lazy loading, image optimization, and minimizing HTTP requests.
• Implement SEO best practices to improve site visibility and ranking, including optimizing site structure, meta tags, heading tags, and schema markup.
• Utilize tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and Lighthouse to analyze and improve site performance, aiming for high scores and fast loading times.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues that arise during the development and testing phases, implementing effective solutions in a timely manner.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in WordPress development, web performance optimization, and SEO techniques, continuously improving your skills and sharing knowledge with the team.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and scoping discussions, contributing technical expertise and insights to ensure project success.
• Collaborate with SEO and Editorial teams to identify new opportunities for site improvements and content optimization.
• Demonstrate an autonomous mindset in managing your workload, proactively identifying and proposing new opportunities for enhancing our WordPress projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience as a WordPress Developer or WordPress Engineer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your WordPress projects.
• Proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, with a solid understanding of web development principles and best practices.
• Extensive experience with WordPress theme and plugin development, including custom theme and plugin creation from scratch.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques and SEO best practices.
• Experience optimizing WordPress sites for high speed and performance, including achieving high scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and other performance testing tools.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks/libraries such as React.js, Vue.js, or AngularJS is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with the ability to effectively troubleshoot and debug issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a passion for learning and staying current with industry trends and technologies.

Benefits

• Work from the comfort of your own home
• Opportunity for growth
• $25,000-$30,000 USD annually

• Develop, test, and maintain web applications using a mix of technologies including PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and frameworks like Laravel or Yii.
• Write and test MySQL database migrations using tools like Laravel or Phinx.
• Collaborate with team members to design and implement scalable web architectures.
• Ensure responsive application design for mobile devices.
• Uphold security and data protection best practices.
• Stay up to date with new technology trends and incorporate them into our development practices.
• Offer technical support and troubleshooting assistance for web applications.
• Demonstrate initiative and self-sufficiency in handling complex development tasks.

• 1-3 years of experience in full-stack web development, showcasing expertise in: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Laravel, Yii or other PHP MVC frameworks
• Strong knowledge in MySQL database management and Redis for data caching.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools and continuous integration practices.
• Ability to work independently on complex tasks, demonstrating problem-solving skills and initiative.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience with WordPress theme and plugin development.
• Experience with game server hosting, especially Minecraft.
• Knowledge of WHMCS or other billing management software.
• Experience with Linux environments, and container technologies (Docker, Podman).
• A passion for gaming and understanding of the gaming community’s needs.

• $55,000 – $70,000 based on experience.

• Close to Legacy-Free Codebase. We know how technical debt and legacy code can turn into quicksand, so we continually eradicate it. Some examples include the complete rewrite of our notification and payment system and numerous enhancements made to our course platform.
• Consistent Coding Standards. We are proud of our strict coding standards, which is the cornerstone of our clean and maintainable codebase. You can find numerous examples in the IxDF Handbook, which includes our conventions for PHP, Laravel, SQL, JavaScript, and CSS, along with other useful resources. You can also find other examples in the IxDF UI Kit, which we’re currently rebuilding into an industry-leading  Design System and our handy IxDF component library
• Crystal-Clear Documentation. Clarity is key. Any line of code should be a succinct, well-crafted, and self-explanatory piece of communication to your future self or your colleague. To string things together, we mix in just the right amount of documentation, with best practices such as focusing on the “why?” and keeping it simple.
• Focus on what matters: Our CI/CD pipeline uses quality tools such as Psalm, PHPStan, Rector, PHPCS, PHP-CS-Fixer, Deptrac, phpcpd, and ESLint to ensure consistency and code quality. This means we’re almost bug-free despite having numerous, zero-downtime, fully automated deployments to production every day. We don’t like bugs and would rather focus on what matters most.
• Test Coverage: “The only way to go fast, is to go well – Robert C. Martin”. We love automated testing, especially Unit Tests, and use TDD as much as we can. We’ve been increasing our test coverage over the years, reaching an overall 38% test coverage throughout the system, with critical systems having over 80% test coverage.

• Always latest PHP and Laravel versions
• Modular monolith comprising 30+ modules with bounded contexts
• Laravel ecosystem: Horizon, Nova, Scout, Pennant, Passport, Inertia, and more
• Web Components, Htmx, Tailwind, Vue.js, Inertia.js,Vite
• Server: Docker, Sail, Octane, Forge, ngin
• DBs: MySQL 8, Redis (Pub/Sub, Cache, Queue Driver)
• Testing: PHPUnit, Laravel Dusk, Cypress
• Advanced CI/CD: GitHub actions, Deployer, Bash
• Code Quality: Psalm, PHPStan, Rector, PHPCS, PHP_CS_Fixer, Phpcpd
• Integrations: Stripe, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Twilio, Mailgun, MailerLite, GitHub, Forge, Coconut, ImageKit, and more
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean
• APM & Monitoring: NewRelic, CloudWatch, BugSnag, GTMetrix

• Ahead of you is a highly rewarding and enriching journey on which you’ll make an impact as you: Contribute to the development of the back-end modules for interaction-design.org, encompassing new feature development, constant refactoring, and infrequent bug fixing.
• Write maintainable and clean code, covered with clean automated tests, including contributions to our open-source packages.
• Be an integral part of our cross-functional teams to refine specifications for new features and enhancements.
• Maintain our documentation to be up-to-date and ensure it maintains an ideal balance between abstraction and concrete details.
• Implement new features in a test-first manner and expand test coverage for existing code.
• Proactively engage in refactoring of both architecture and code to reduce technical debt, aiming for an optimal developer experience.
• Use Code Review as a knowledge-sharing and problem-solving tool, as well as ensuring code quality.
• Develop new requirements incrementally, using feature branches or flags, to ship changes to production as quickly as possible. .

• Implement re-usable, fully tested UI Components using Web Components and the Blade template engine.
• Utilize the IxDF Component Library to implement UIs with the best look & feel.
• Boost performance and responsiveness of existing and new pages, including enhancing Web Vitals.
• Increase the test coverage and improve the code quality of the IxDF UI-Kit.

• You possess expert knowledge in PHP and its frameworks, preferably Laravel. You’re an expert in software design best practices and principles, OOP, Design Patterns, and SOLID principles
• You have a great understanding of software engineering fundamentals, performance, data structure, and algorithms.
• You’re an engineer, not a coder or a frameworker. You embody an engineer’s mindset and are always curious about the mechanics behind the scenes.
• You have mastered the art of automated testing, especially unit tests.
• You’re enthusiastic about learning by doing and are committed to putting in the effort to continuously improve your skills.
• You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable – since you will be working with people from all around the world.
• You value teamwork and prioritize collaboration, focusing on collective goals and harmony in the workplace.
• You’re self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
• You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments, and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
• You value teamwork and prioritize collaboration, focusing on collective goals and harmony in the workplace.
• You’re driven by the desire to make a positive impact in the world and to improve the lives of others.
• You’re located within a time zone all the way from Europe (UTC+0) to East Asia (UTC+8)

• have expertise in TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS.
• hold a Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
• possess strong skills in database management, including scaling and optimization.
• have experience with technologies such as Stripe, Swoole, Customer Data Platforms, or Analytics tools.
• have contributed to open-source projects (you’ll join a team of Laravel/framework contributors).
• have an AWS certificate
• have experience with Docker, Linux Servers, and Devops
• consider yourself a security expert/enthusiast

• A founder and CEO who is also a developer, understanding your challenges and triumphs. A zero-effort development environment based on Docker, streamlining your workflow.
• The opportunity to refine and develop battle-tested guidelines for PHP and Laravel.
• A team of Senior Developers, with a commitment to writing testable clean code
• Bi-weekly knowledge-sharing sessions and 3 meeting-free days weekly for focused work.
• Access to a comprehensive library of books and courses, ensuring your skills and knowledge remain at the forefront.
• A full-time position, within a fully remote organization. Daily video-based collaboration with your colleagues from elsewhere on the planet, and you’ll get to meet up on team trips every year.
• A work culture with no fluffy titles, political agendas and corporate drama. Your colleagues value your warm character, your strong work ethic, and the results you deliver. Junior or senior, if you embody old-school virtues of always striving to deliver results, learn and become better every day, you’ll thrive at the IxDF.
• A daily mission to help impact, empower, and enrich the lives of millions of people by creating affordable high-end design education to everyone across the planet. It’ll be yours too.
• A company where the distance between idea and execution is minimal. We’re a highly agile organization with zero bureaucracy or corporate politics – and with exceptional order and efficiency.
• A company culture where passion meets high performance and excellence. To help us improve the world (and yourself in the process), you’ll need grit, strong work ethic, long-term thinking, and self-discipline.
• We thrive because we have a hands-on attitude and a bias towards action as opposed to fluff-filled, unrealistic strategies. You’ll need crisp execution skills yourself and the ability to impress your colleagues with concrete results, just like they’ll impress you.

• React.js, Typescript, NextJS.
• Fluent in English.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours with PST.
• We use Hubstaff to log worked hours.

• Coding Challenge
• 2-3 Interviews