Jobs at LaLa Projects

LaLa Projects is seeking a part-time contract WordPress Developer. In this position, you will develop custom WordPress websites, themes, and blocks. This job will require that you have good coding skills, a passion for all things related to WordPress, and that you love good design.

This is a contract position on a project-by-project basis. This job will be remote. You will have a lot of freedom, which requires that you be responsible and self-motivated.

Basic Requirements:

• Own a computer.
• Have access to high-speed Internet at home.
• Personally located within the continental United States.
• Be available during the day Monday to Friday.
• Be self-motivated and able to work remotely and meet deadlines.
• Must have an understanding of how to use Google Drive.
• Must be comfortable using Google Meet, Slack, and Video Chatting.
• Must be comfortable interacting with clients and taking on technical support requests as needed.

Developer Requirements:

• Languages: HTML, CSS/SCSS, PHP, Javascript
• Frameworks: jQuery, Bootstrap, Advanced Custom Fields, React.js
• An understanding of GIT and GitHub.

Applicants need a deep understanding of:

• WordPress 5.0
• Gutenberg Editor Block Building
• Theme building
• Parent & Child Themes
• Plugin Building
• Versioning Control for Themes & Plugins via GitHub
• WooCommerce templates and settings
• Third-Party WooCommerce plugins

Applicants must:

• Know how to build websites with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices.
• Be able to work collaboratively with other developers working on the same code base.
• Understand the WordPress Template Hierarchy
• Understand how to write clean code and keep it organized within our established file structure.
• Understand how to build custom templates in PHP
• Understand how to build custom post types.
• Understands WordPress APIs
• Understands WordPress Multisites

Preferences:

We’d love to find someone that is thoughtful, pleasant, and enjoys collaborating. It is important to us that we find a good fit for our ecosystem.

We are not interested in the following:

• No offshore developers or developer companies, we need direct contact with our developer and we want to work with people in similar time zones as us.
• No weekend moonlighters. We believe in having a work-life balance. We work during the week and take the weekends off, only on very rare occasions does our work bleed into nights and weekends. We try very hard to avoid this.
• We do not enjoy working with developers that lean too heavily on plugins. Our approach is to use as few 3rd party plugins as possible. We appreciate that some are required, but we want to work with someone who can build themes, templates and blocks in PHP and style a website via CSS.

Type of work:

• This is a part-time contract position
• paid hourly