Road9 Media is hiring a Senior WordPress Full-Stack Developer with strong frontend skills.
The role is UI-heavy: the developer must build responsive interfaces from scratch, handle advanced JavaScript animations/effects, and develop custom WordPress functionality when needed.
Responsibilities
- Build responsive WordPress websites from scratch based on approved UI/UX designs.
- Convert Figma / Adobe XD designs into clean, accurate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WordPress themes.
- Develop advanced UI animations, transitions, interactions, and scroll-based effects.
- Build custom WordPress themes without relying on ready-made themes or theme customization.
- Develop custom WordPress plugins and backend functionality when needed.
- Customize WooCommerce and WordPress admin workflows.
- Integrate WordPress websites with CRMs, payment gateways, APIs, and third-party platforms.
- Migrate websites from staging to live servers safely.
- Handle basic hosting, DNS, SSL, backup, and server-related WordPress issues.
- Support long-term maintenance clients with website updates, bug fixing, server checks, and performance issues.
- Handle performance optimization, responsive testing, browser compatibility, and bug fixing.
- Maintain clean, reusable, and well-structured code.
- Work closely with UX/UI designers, project delivery, and backend developers to deliver websites to client-ready standards.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional WordPress development experience.
- Strong frontend skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive development, and UI effects.
- Strong experience converting custom designs into pixel-accurate WordPress websites.
- Strong PHP and WordPress development experience.
- Experience building custom themes and custom plugins.
- Experience with WooCommerce customization.
- Experience with API integrations, CRMs, and payment gateways.
- Experience migrating WordPress websites from staging to live.
- Basic server management experience: hosting panels, DNS, SSL, backups, redirects, and email/domain-related checks.
- Good understanding of website speed, SEO structure, security basics, and clean code standards.
- Experience using Git or similar version control.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Portfolio showing custom WordPress websites with strong UI quality.
Preferred
- Experience with complex landing pages, corporate websites, and e-commerce websites.
- Experience maintaining websites under long-term support agreements.
- Understanding of UX/UI logic, not only implementation.
