About Us
Rounded Digital is a digital marketing and sales company headquartered in the River North (RiNo) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Our team challenges everything we think we know about marketing on a regular basis, and we venture to exceed our own expectations daily. We have high ambitions for our growing clientele, and with that comes high expectations out of our process and team.
Job Description
We are looking for a WordPress Web Developer responsible for both back-end and front-end development, which could later include development of WordPress themes and plugins.
As an outstanding candidate, you are self-motivated hustler and a natural-born leader. This role will require you to interact and engage with clients on a regular basis, and we are seeking a candidate that is genuinely vested in their success. Additionally, you possess a strong understanding of business and willingness to learn how our clients’ businesses operate, what opportunities they’re seeking in growth, and how you can provide the greatest value for them as a representative of Rounded Digital.
You are expected to maintain a positive and respectful attitude, remain calm under pressure, and help us build an exciting culture of winning clients and happy team members.
Responsibilities
This position requires proficiency in e-commerce, integration of APIs, manipulation of WordPress themes and plugins, and handling/moving of files in different hosting environments. This position also requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetic savviness (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on)
- Develop and maintain robust, well-planned, impressive websites that perform well in search results and convert at rates greater than industry standards.
- Develop new UX/UI features that can be replicated on other sites.
- Actively participate in optimizing our development process by driving automation, building and archiving reusable codebases, implementing cutting edge technologies and performance standards.
- Recognize, mitigate and help resolve financial or timeline issues with clients, and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Help ensure the technical feasibility of projects prior to new client onboarding.
- Develop and manage website architectures.
- Optimize sites for maximum speed and scalability.
- Implement tracking codes/pixels (analytics, social ads, etc.).
- Collaborate with other team members and clients, manage client onboarding procedures, and maintain regular, open and honest communication.
- Assist in the management of quality assurance and performance audits.
- Maintain professional knowledge by engaging in continual learning, attending educational workshops, reviewing professional training websites and publications.
- Work onsite in our Denver location and sometimes at client locations.
Skills And Qualifications
- Greater than 3 years experience in the development role (consistent freelance or agency setting)
- Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Must have a great foundation of current best practices in web and mobile standards, design, and emerging technologies & framework.
- Possess the ability to maintain personal standards higher than that of the client and teammates.
- Capable of autonomous work towards established goals, not being shy about asking questions when more information is needed, and raising concerns when they become apparent.
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
- Proficiency in interacting with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
To Apply
Please submit a resume and links to your work or portfolio, utilizing the form below. If it is not clear, please make a mention as to your scope of work on each project so we can get a clear idea of where your talents may be hidden in UI/UX. If you have any additional information you’d like to provide, you can submit that to careers@wearerounded.com. Interviews are being conducted immediately.