WordPress Engineer (remote)

Looking to build beautiful and meaningful websites for organizations that matter?

Great Believer is a design agency for nonprofits with a focus on building WordPress websites. We’ve recently launched intuitive, inspiring websites for The Global FoodBanking Network, The JED Foundation, DREAM and Family Legal Care.

We’re looking for a reliable, detail-oriented and ambitious WordPress Engineer to join our team. In this full-time role, you’ll manage and maintain a range of nonprofit websites – altogether playing a major role in the success of many organizations.

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Position highlights

• Join a development team that spends its days building user-friendly websites for amazing nonprofits
• Integrate with a highly cooperative, supportive and good-humored dev team 
• Regularly collaborate with your fellow devs to build and improve GB’s in-house starter theme and foundational development operations  
• Earn a salary in the $70,000–$80,000 range, plus get access to an array of other benefits including healthcare, paid time off and professional development
• Enjoy other wellness-focused activities, like mental health days, yoga, book club and game nights
• Work fully remote with a nationwide team that stays in touch by Slack, Zoom and Asana

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Your responsibilities

• Help manage and maintain websites for a growing list of clients 
• Collaborate with the accounts team to handle requests for maintenance and site updates
• Take client and team meetings as GB’s development representative, offering your expertise and advice 
• Collaborate with the full development team to plan, build and maintain Great Believer’s in-house starter theme. 
• Devise clever and effective CSS/SASS solutions for unique design ideas 
• Strategize with our design team to create distinctive, user-friendly and functional websites 
• Build stable and responsive JS for interactive and dynamic pages 
• Work alongside our wider network of web developers to keep all projects running smoothly
• Stay on top of the latest trends in nonprofit technology, including donation systems, email-blast platforms and job portals
• Create and maintain a well-documented codebase across dozens of sites

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Our requirements

• 3+ years of WordPress experience, including a solid understanding of PHP/MySQL, core WordPress functions, custom themes, custom post types and effective plugins
• Comply with coding standards, complement code already in-use, and configure to your style where meaningful
• Fluency and experience in creating local, workable versions of WordPress sites across a variety of build tools
• A love of troubleshooting and comfort with the process of bug-hunting
• Fluency and ease when communicating technical language to clients and team members
• A strong sense of best coding practices, as per the WordPress Codex
• Precise attention to detail in reviewing and implementing designs
• A keen eye for building with crisp, scalable, optimized design assets 
• Extensive experience working with ACF for CMS customizations
• Experience working with Sass as a primary tool for CSS
• A deep joy of learning and verve for implementing well-vetted code

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Bonus points if you have the following experience

• Designing for web or for print – we’d love to see your portfolio! 
• Building custom WordPress themes from scratch 
• Using GSAP animation
• Handling basic command line navigation
• Implementing WCAG accessibility standards
• Building or maintaining your own starter theme
• Coding with Frameworking Tools like Bulma, Tailwind and Django
• Coding inside Twig/Timber
• Doing dedicated UI/UX work
• Doing work for nonprofits and/or campaigns-driven organizations
• Working with a small and mighty team

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Our core values

• Come as you are: We celebrate everyone’s unique interests and perspectives.
• Great creative: We flex our creative muscles until the end product strikes the right chord.
• Play nice: We form the strongest relationships when our hearts are in the right place.
• Love the learn: We’ve made professional development an essential part of the formula.
• Band together: We’ve seen monumental change when we work toward a common goal.

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Benefits and company policy

• All full-time employees are eligible for a flexible paid time off policy, flexible work hours, subsidized benefits (medical, dental, vision and life), a 401k program, annual professional development and charity matching.
• The expected salary for this position is $70,000–$80,000, contingent on expertise and experience.
• Great Believer is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive team with a range of unique perspectives. We strongly encourage candidates who identify as people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ and/or gender non-conforming to apply.