Apex engineers jobs - Web Developer

About the Company : It's a Kolkata, India based IT services and business process automation organization, established in 2004. It is a pioneer in opensource technology adoption in various business verticals, basically catering to the online education sector.

Job Description

• We are seeking a WordPress Developer responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.
• This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).
• The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. Experience with responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred.
• Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.
  

Key Responsibilities : Include, but are not limited to :

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website's architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin
  

Requirements

• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites.
• Experience designing websites on WordPress with extensive and optimum usage of high-quality plugins.
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages.
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
• Comfortable working on the Linux desktop environment and LAMP stack.
• Minimum graduate in any stream, though BCA, B.Sc. graduates may be better equipped. Emphasis shall be on skills rather than on degree.
  

Benefits : Remuneration will be competitive with the Indian Education Technology sector pay scales and will depend upon the candidate's experience levels and the value he/she will be able to add to the project.

Growth Potential

• Opportunity to work with high quality and delivery focussed technical team.
• Possibility of leading a team of web developers to drive the user experience for the organization's key online asset.