Full Stack WordPress Developer
Summary
Builds and maintains a ministry's websites and web apps: traditional WordPress sites (mostly Elementor Pro) plus headless WordPress with React frontends on a cloud LAMP stack. Day-to-day is design, development, testing, and upkeep with a focus on security, performance, and mobile responsiveness using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and React.
Position Purpose:
The Web Developer is responsible for designing, developing, modifying, and maintaining secure, reliable, user-friendly websites and applications across the ministry’s diverse digital ecosystem. This includes both traditional WordPress sites (primarily using Elementor Pro) and headless WordPress sites with React frontends. The ideal candidate will be proficient in PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, with a proven ability to deliver visually appealing, secure, performant, and mobile-responsive interfaces. This position requires the applicant to be a self-starter who is self-directed, personable, an excellent communicator, and can work independently and as a member of a team. This individual must be able to take ownership of tasks assigned and work within the scope of project assignments, while meeting expected deadlines and communicating progress to team members, their manager, and key project stakeholders.
Essential Duties:
- Design, develop, evaluate, enhance, test, and maintain WordPress sites using MySQL databases, and WordPress plugins/themes on a cloud-hosted LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack
- Build and maintain React-based frontends for headless WordPress sites, integrating REST or GraphQL APIs, CDNs, etc., as required
- Optimize standardization, performance, scalability, and security across sites
- Perform other related tasks as needed