Senior Developer

Senior Developer (Contract)

Reaktiv is looking for senior and lead developers for a 3-6+ month contract at 25 – 35 hours per week. Experience with WordPress a must. Enterprise and WordPress VIP experience preferred.

What you'll do

• You’re dedicated to developing your skills as part of a highly collaborative team.
• You’re committed to building, maintaining, supporting, and refactoring web sites and content management systems
• You have an understanding of WordPress technical structure and architecture
• You can create custom WordPress plugins and themes that work at scale, and meet the specific needs of clients
• You possess a high level understanding of PHP and JavaScript, and are proficient in SQL, HTML5, CSS and CSS preprocessors.
• You love participating in positive and collaborative peer code reviews.
• You are comfortable with the communication tools and skills required to work effectively with a distributed team (like Slack, Asana, Notion, and Zoom. Patience and understanding go a long way too).
• You are familiar with automated deployment workflows and Git or similar version control tools.
• You value new and complex problems, and continuously seek out opportunities to grow.
• You are kind, patient and respectful in your communication with clients and comfortable guiding them to their desired result.
• You strive to improve and document the team’s workflow and processes.
• You excel at auditing sites for performance, security and future maintainability as well as providing recommendations for improvement.

Who you are

• You’re dedicated to developing your skills as part of a highly collaborative team.
• You’re committed to building, maintaining, supporting, and refactoring web sites and content management systems
• You have an understanding of WordPress technical structure and architecture
• You can create custom WordPress plugins and themes that work at scale, and meet the specific needs of clients
• You possess a high level understanding of PHP and JavaScript, and are proficient in SQL, HTML5, CSS and CSS preprocessors.
• You love participating in positive and collaborative peer code reviews.
• You are comfortable with the communication tools and skills required to work effectively with a distributed team (like Slack, Asana, Notion, and Zoom. Patience and understanding go a long way too).
• You are familiar with automated deployment workflows and Git or similar version control tools.
• You value new and complex problems, and continuously seek out opportunities to grow.
• You are kind, patient and respectful in your communication with clients and comfortable guiding them to their desired result.
• You strive to improve and document the team’s workflow and processes.
• You excel at auditing sites for performance, security and future maintainability as well as providing recommendations for improvement.

Requirements

• Experience with WordPress is required
• Enterprise and WordPress VIP experience preferred
• Strong PHP and JavaScript knowledge; proficient in SQL, HTML5, CSS and CSS preprocessors
• Experience creating custom WordPress plugins and themes at scale
• Familiarity with automated deployment workflows and version control tools (Git or similar)
• Ability to work in a distributed team environment using tools like Slack, Asana, Notion, and Zoom

Benefits & perks

• Contract role for 3-6+ months, 25–35 hours per week

Team description

We’re a close-knit, fully distributed team who enjoy the challenge of solving hard problems together with clients like Atlassian, Cornell University, Harvard Business School, The New York Times Company, Microsoft, and Wirecutter. We’re also one of the few WordPress VIP Gold agency partners in the world.