Team Lead - Full Stack Developer

Join the Blacksmith Team!

Blacksmith is seeking a Team Lead - Full Stack Developer who is motivated to spearhead the development of unique, custom WordPress themes and plugins for our clients without leaving behind backend coding. The lead will transform completed designs into live, interactive web experiences with beautiful, clean code while supporting clean code practices on the team and acting as technical advisor to our clients alongside the Director of Engineering.

If you enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex problems and aren’t afraid to take initiative then join our growing team of talented individuals!

Position Benefits:

Competitive pay and benefits

Remote – 100% work from home

Opportunity to work and grow at an award winning digital agency

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Experience leading code reviews

Advisor to clients for projects that best meet their bottom line

Experience scoping out complex custom WordPress or ecommerce builds

Expert level skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Expert on backend development with PHP.

Experience working and managing MySQL databases.

Experience building custom WordPress themes/plugins

Complete understanding of the WordPress core software and its functions at the code level

Hands on experience with SASS/SCSS/LESS and Flexbox

Build responsive websites that function perfectly on any device or browser size

Experience with Git/Bitbucket

Ability to execute ADA and SEO best practices

Leverage WP Plugin Advanced Custom Fields

Proactively perform cross-browser compatibility tests and iterate to work through the bugs

Adept at developing custom WP themes from Figma design files

Collaborate with both UX/UI Web Designers and Backend Developers to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation in order to complete projects, websites, platforms and other web experiences

Optimize application for optimum speed and scalability

Communicate positively and honestly with a strong work ethic and reliability

Excitement to learn new technologies and self-teach when needed

This position does not use existing WordPress templates or page builders (i.e WP Bakery, Divi, Elementor, etc) as all projects are custom and built from scratch

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience with SOWs or RFPs or other pre-sales activity

Experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks

Experience with vanilla.js, ES6/ES2015, Gutenberg blocks

Experience working with Laravel PHP Framework and other backend technologies like CodeIgniter and NodeJS.

Ability to use a taskrunner (ie: Gulp/Grunt/Webpack) to generate website assets

Develop with a JavaScript compiler (ie: Babel, etc) to generate cross-browser compatible JS code

Testing experience

3+ years of agency experience