Wordpress/PHP Developer at The Motley Fool in Alexandria, VA

What would you do in this role?

We live and breathe online, so we are constantly stepping up our site game. With your broad experience, you have solid, hands-on work experience building beautiful, fast, and functional websites, and you enjoy thinking outside the box and collaborating with those around you.

But what does this role actually do?

• Develop Wordpress plugins that support our network and business goals.
• Work with and manage outside contractors to maintain and grow our site.
• Proactively find and implement opportunities to optimize our site.

What do you need to apply?

• Highly skilled, detail-oriented PHP Developer well-versed in modern best practices such as TDD.
• Deep experience with writing code for WordPress as a CMS
• Knowledge of core actions & filters, the WordPress REST API, and how to create plugins using OOP.
• Experience working with SaaS/RESTful API’s.
• Comfortable blurring the line between traditional back-end and front-end development, often integrating PHP with client-side frameworks and Ajax.
• Good instinct for choosing tools that are appropriate for solving problem and not because of tech fashion trends (although we do like to stay innovative!).
• Familiarity with The Motley Fool’s mission, purpose, and ethos.

It’s even better if you have…

• A history of work on a large development project where you collaborated with other developers, designers, and product owners.
• Familiarity and some level of experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular.
• Curiosity and a love of learning: Whether it’s the latest technology, how the Foolish business operates, or investing, you have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. And you love to share that knowledge with your fellow Fools!
• Familiarity and experience with other programming languages besides PHP — we don’t mind which — so long as you learned that language’s rules, syntax, and design patterns, making you a well-rounded developer.
• Good communication skills.
• Even better documentation chops.
• A sense of humor.

Not required, but great if you have…

• Experience working in a publishing company or financial services company.
• Working knowledge of WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg editor.
• Examples of open source projects you have started or contributed to.
• E-commerce experience: writing code or utilizing systems for processing online payments, either in or outside of WordPress.
• Experience as an investor. And a self-managed 401(k) totally counts!