Awesome Motive Inc.: WordPress Developer (PHP/JS)

Headquarters: West Palm Beach, FL
URL: https://awesomemotive.com

About the Company:

At Awesome Motive, we help small businesses grow and compete with the big guys by creating market leading software and growth tools.

Over 10 million websites use our software and training videos to grow their traffic, email subscribers, and business revenue.

We are the company behind popular marketing products including OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, SeedProd, WP Mail SMTP, RafflePress, TrustPulse, and more. We also run a suite of popular blogs including WPBeginner, the largest free WordPress resource site for beginners.

About the role?

As a WordPress Developer at Awesome Motive, you will build infrastructure to create new features, improve existing code, squash bugs, and help us rapidly scale our platform.

You will primarily working in our product team for WPForms, the most popular WordPress form builder - used by over 3 million websites!

To love this role, here’s the type of person you are:

• You’re a self-starter who loves taking initiative and seeing things through from conception to completion. Our developers often "own" features/tasks and are responsible for scoping, development, and testing.
• You're an excellent communicator, fluent in both verbal and written English, who makes sure nothing slips through the cracks. We believe communication is critical and there is no such thing as over communicating.
• You have the curiosity and desire to learn and grow your skills.
• You're passionate about leaving your mark on the web for all to see and are excited to work on tasks that impact millions of users.
• You take pride in the quality if you and craftsmanship of your work rather than just doing it to get it done.
• You're a team player who is comfortable working along side and helping other developers, and you don't take critical feedback personally.
• You're happy jumping between front-end and back-end development tasks, or tackling tasks which require both.
• You're happy working on tasks of all sizes - from small bug fixes and enhancements to large features/rewrites.

Common responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Triaging bugs and small enhancements that come into GitHub.
• Scoping, writing, and testing new product features and addons.
• Refactoring legacy code with a particular attention to backwards compatibility.
• Providing feedback and peer review for other developers (Github PRs).

Here are some skills that will come handy:

• Professional experience with WordPress plugin development, architecture, and standards.
• Advanced proficiency with PHP and MySQL, including modern PHP practices (OOP, autoloading, namespacing, traits, interfaces, etc).
• String familiarity with JavasScript (vanilla JS, jQuery, ES6, etc).
• Ability to use and extend build tools like gulp and webpack.
• Familiarity with package managers such as Composer and NPM.
• Experience working with third-party APIs (Eg Stripe, Drip, Zapier, etc).
• Competent with version control through git and GitHub.
• The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly.
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to keep complex ideas and features simple. (Simplicity is a core value!)
• Previous freelance or remote work experience.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript frameworks like VueJS or React.
• Experience with e-commerce platforms or related APIs (WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, etc).
• Experience with DevOps or infrastructure management.

What we offer

Working for a fast-growing bootstrapped company is a rare opportunity, one we consider a lifestyle choice rather than a job choice. Our positions are challenging, but also come with amazing advantages and fulfillment to those who earn them. Here’s what we offer.

• Competitive Salary.
• Health Insurance benefits for full-time U.S. employees.
• Work from your home. We’re spread out all over the world – United States, Canada, Ukraine, India, Pakistan, Singapore and more.
• Unlimited PTO after 90 days of employment. We encourage employees to take the time they need for vacation, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• We happily provide or reimburse software you’ll need as well as books or courses that promote continued learning.
• We give you the opportunity to solve challenging and meaningful problems that make a difference.
• Custom Branded laptop at your five year anniversary.
• We cover all costs of company travel (including our annual all-company retreat and mini-team meetups).
• Ability to work with some of the best people in the business through frequent, if not daily, interactions.
• And in case you were wondering: no politics, no b.s., and no jerks.

If all of this sounds interesting, then please submit your application!

How to Apply?

Please clearly include the following in your cover letter:

• Your experience with WordPress plugin development.
• What is your favorite WordPress hook/function and why.
• Tell us a bit about yourself  and why you should be considered. Details about your experience, qualifications, personality, etc are very helpful.
• Profile links with code samples (GitHub, GitLab, WordPress.org, etc).
• Other profile links if available (Your website, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc).

Also note, don't forget to proofread before submitting. Check spelling, capitalization, etc. This is your chance to make your application stand out :)

We won’t be able to individually respond to all applications, but if we feel you’re a strong match, someone will be in touch shortly. Qualified candidates will be asked to do a simple code challenge.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!

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