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Lead WordPress Engineer

SECAUCUS-07094, NJ, US
03/11/2019

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Required Skills

HTML, software languages

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

5 to 7 Year(s)

Job Description

Team Lead WordPress Engineer

Our Client is a major Sports Entertainment Company, and they are looking for a candidate that can serve as a team leader within their development team, overseeing all aspects of technical leadership of a small team overseeing WordPress based digital products, including themes and plugins for several departments in the Mobile and International market.

This will include the development of "state-of-the-art", mobile first, database and feed driven websites and APIs to support the various departments and their products.

The candidate for this growth position should be an expert in their field and help lead the team strategically in achieving our goals.

Major Responsibility:

Partnering with Product and Content Teams, gather business requirements and design technical solutions to meet those needs

Liase with, and provide written feedback to technical and business constituents as necessary

Set coding standards and help drive the strategic technical direction of our WordPress development efforts; develop systems to meet or exceed business KPIs

Understand and modify existing systems as business requirements and consumer behaviors change

Develop system test criteria and participate in systems testing

Respond to, isolate and resolve programming problems

Provide after hours and weekend support for production systems when needed

Required Skills/Knowledge:

5+ years relevant digital development industry experience required

WordPress Superstar: at least three years of experience building highly available / scalable WordPress websites in an enterprise environment

Experience leading a development team, in either managerial or engineering leadership position

Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and other software languages used for web and mobile web development (i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)

Strong knowledge of web server technologies (i.e. Apache) and web proxies (i.e. Varnish)

Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services inclusive of Lambda, S3 and other micro-services

Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (i.e. Akamai) and CI/CD stack

Excellent written and verbal skills

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required