Why work at Wide Eye?

• Work on meaningful causes, campaigns, and organizations
• Work collaboratively with a highly-creative, award-winning team
• Potential for growth in the role and within the company
• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sabbatical starting at 6 years of service
• Work from home
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Potential to participate in the company 401k and profit-sharing plans
• Annual professional development budget

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Develop WordPress websites utilizing templates, Gutenberg blocks, custom post types, and taxonomies
• Develop front-end experiences and back-end user interfaces using modern best-practices in web languages
• Integrate third-party tools, APIs, and CRMs
• Implement content migration processes and techniques
• Conduct cross-browser and cross-device testing
• Troubleshoot and solve complex technical bugs/challenges
• Implement modifications, updates, and improvements on existing projects
• Work directly with clients and project managers to plan the technical scope of their projects and lead client trainings as needed

Senior Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship/on-boarding assistance to new team members and freelancers
• Encourage and provide growth for other team members
• Work directly with the Senior Engineering Manager to establish and oversee best practices, systems, and processes for the development team
• Lead company education/trainings on development-related best practices, systems, and processes
• Work directly with the Senior Engineering Manager to implement project feature sets and assist in documentation for reuse by the development team
• Work directly with the Senior Engineering Manager and/or the Technical Lead to refine and streamline our development workflows as it relates to DevOps
• Conduct research and/or proactively seek feedback from client-facing team members on emerging technical tools that can solve client problems
• Conduct research on alternative CMS/Website Workflows (E.g. Squarespace, Netlify, Webflow, etc.) and lead on potential recommendations for clients
• Serve as a point of contact for sales and scoping questions for existing and upcoming projects
• Exemplify professional diplomacy and poise toward team members and clients
• Contribute to additional stages of the hiring process
• Attend at least one (virtual) course on technical management/direction

Experience / Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in web development
• Extensive experience with WordPress front-end development using the following technologies: HTML5, SASS (or equivalent preprocessor)/CSS, and JavaScript
• Extensive experience with WordPress back-end development using the following technologies: PHP, MySQL, WP REST API, JSON
• Intermediate experience with SysAdmins and DevOps using the following, or equivalent, technologies: Web Servers, DNS, CDNs, Continuous Integrations (CI), Security and Performance Management
• Extensive experience with responsive development, graceful degradation, and progressive enhancement
• Strong working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Illustrator
• Strong understanding of accessibility, modern web design principles, user experience, information architecture, and social media
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to convey complex ideas with brevity to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage time and balance multiple projects
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly-creative and resourceful
• Passion and pride in your work

Bonus Points

• Interest in progressive politics and social change
• Experience with CRMs such as Blue State Digital, NGP VAN, ActionKit, Action Network, etc
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks/libraries (Angular, React)
• Experience working directly with clients

Annual salary range: $95k-$120k plus benefits