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Short Description:
The Programmer is responsible for working within a multidisciplinary team to develop, produce and maintain web sites and web applications in support of the GIC mission of enhancing communications between Delawareans and their government.
Complete Description:
We are seeking a programmer with at least 5 years experience in front-end design and backend development to build user-centered websites for our clients (and ourselves).
The ideal candidate has a passion for research, data and analytics, and end users.
You will be working as part of a team of talented and dedicated people. Team collaboration is a must.
Responsibilities:
- This role will handle diverse and challenging problem sets – with the ultimate goal of improving end-user experience.
- Support our multisite WordPress environments in partnership with our team. Research WordPress updates, future additions, and navigate through upgrades. Develop custom WordPress plugins for features on an as-needed basis.
- Conceive of and build new features into our user centered websites. Collaborate with the team of designers, web developers, programmer, content writer, and project leads on new features.
- Use website analytics and search data to make decisions about improving user interactions. Will make suggestions for improving search for clients and for the engines we maintain.
- Teach and educate others (i.e. those on our team, or our clients) about features and functionality.
- Did we mention, you should have a hyper focus on users?
Skills:
- Experience with medium and large websites (100+pages up to 4,000 pages)
- 5 years or more programming experience with large website development in: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, WordPress and must have an understanding of security best practices
- The mind of a teacher; can help guide others with less experience/a mentor to others on the team
- Collaborative; works well in team environment
- Passion for researching technologies that will help end users (citizens, businesses, residents, visitors, etc)
- RSS and XML experience is a plus
Knowledge:
- WordPress expert including WordPress architecture, WordPress trends, and WordPress “How-To’s”.
- Knowledge of best practices for web, including experience, accessibility, internal and external search, and functionality.
Strong interest in data:
search engine optimization, search analytics, Google Analytics - for the purpose of improving user experience. Interest in open data, and using open data, is a strong plus.
Knowledge of data visualization techniques, tools, and presentation of information – is another plus.
- PHP, MYSQL, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular, HTML, CSS, XML, etc.
- Experience with front-end frameworks and tools like Bootstrap.
- Knowledge and experience in WordPress custom development including Themes and Plugin development. Familiar with WordPress filters, hooks, page templates, functions.php, etc.
- Experience working in Linux environment; and comfortable doing everyday tasks in Linux.
- Cross-browser & cross-platform compatible design & development.
- Understand UX/UI principles and best practices.
- SEO and Analytics.
- .net experience is a plus, but is not required.
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
HTML programming | Required | 5 | Years |
Prior experience Programming HTML5 | Required | 2 | Years |
PHP/MySQL Programming | Required | 5 | Years |
Prior CSS programming experience | Required | 5 | Years |
JavaScript/JQuery programming | Required | 5 | Years |
Wordpress experience including (themes, hooks, custom plugin development, filters, page templates and functions.php) | Required | 5 | Years |
Linux Systems experience | Highly desired | 1 | Years |
Bootstrap/front end frameworks | Highly desired | 1 | Years |
RSS Expereince | Highly desired | 1 | Years |
XML Experience | Highly desired | 1 | Years |
SEO experience | Highly desired | 2 | Years |
Prior experience working with Data | Highly desired | 2 | Years |
