Waft is an cutting-edge, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce company that’s reimagining how consumers experience and purchase fragrance. We’ve developed an immersive, personalized, online experience which uses our proprietary algorithm to understand customer’s preferences and tastes. By leveraging technology, top fragrance-industry knowledge, master perfumers and the finest quality ingredients, Waft has made it possible for customers create their own custom fragrance online.

We believe our vision and team is positioned to disrupt the 31.4Bn fragrance industry and we invite you to apply to join us on our exciting journey.​

- We are Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to support development, maintenance and management of our affiliate sites on WordPress, Big commerce and Shopify platforms and other digital projects as assigned.

- The hired candidate would be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and updating plugins.

- This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics. 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.

- Isolating and fixing bugs in our current products and improving overall speed and performance.

Requirements

Skills:

- Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins

- Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level:





- Experience working on ecommerce platforms like Big Commerce and Shopify

- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery

- Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.

- Customising WordPress to support specific functionality

- Creation of custom post types.

- Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.

- Creation of clean, logical, well ¬documented and reusable code.

- Theme/template integration.

- Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) required.

- Familiar with AWS LAMP Stack Configuration

- Experience in creating multilingual websites.

- Developing wire-frame mock-ups to illustrate possible solutions

- Good understanding of cross¬-platform and cross-¬browser issues.

- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications

- Use of AJAX / Prototype / script.aculo.us an advantage.

- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites

- 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 (such as Git, SVN,



and Mercurial)

- Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite

- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.

Responsibilities:

- Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture

- Ensuring high-performance and availability and managing all technical aspects of the CMS

- Helping formulates an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and/or plugin.

- Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest front¬end and back-end technologies

- Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.

- Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.

- Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.

- Self-motivated, goal-oriented and able to work in a team environment.

- Use common sense at all times and pay close attention to detail.

- Client-facing demeanour for Training & Support.

Experience:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience of WordPress, PHP programming, MySQL, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, JavaScript, XML/JSON and 3rd party APIs, Cross-platform and cross-browser, Responsive, Web standards and accessibility, Code testing, Security, Deployment

Benefits

Salary for this position is completely dependent on your experience, location, technical skills, how well you can help us tackle the outcomes for this position and the competencies you can display as a member of this team. This is something we’re happy to discuss once you’ve gotten further along in the application process.

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