Team Lead

WebCause Inc. is looking to hire talented and motivated WordPress Technical Team Lead with experience of working on Themeforest and developing custom WordPress plugins from scratch.

If you are a senior WordPress developer with leadership skills and looking to step up your game, Apply Now

About us

We're a friendly group of WordPress designers, developers, testers, and marketers having a great time building all things WordPress. We live WordPress and we breath WordPress.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Own the entire development methodology process at WebCause.
• Mentor, train, manage and lead a team of junior to mid-level developers.
• Contribute technically and lead the development team ensuring end-to-end delivery with technical excellence.
• Review code for technical accuracy, performance and standards.
• Create, manage and maintain documentation for projects and development workflow.
• Work as a bridge between the management and team for task and deadline management and delivering on project milestones.

Development Responsibilities:

• Develop custom and commercial WordPress themes from scratch for clients / WordPress repository and Themeforest.
• Develop custom WordPress plugins from scratch.
• Develop themes and plugins for WooCommerce.
• Develop custom Gutenberg blocks and plugins.
• Customize existing plugins and add features as per requirement.
• Integrate complex third-party APIs including REST and GraphQL.
• Custom integration of payment gateways and shipping APIs in WooCommerce.
• Create solutions for complex frontend and backend issues in WordPress themes and plugins.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of proven experience as a WordPress developer on production sites.
• 1+ years of experience leading WordPress development team.
• Proven experience developing commercial themes and plugins for themeforest and WordPress repository.
• Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress sites.
• Experience architecting and writing your own plugins and frameworks.
• Portfolio website and/or samples of past work and completed projects.

Frontend Technologies:

• HTML5 / CSS3 / SASS / LESS
• Responsive Design / CSS3 & SVG Animations
• PHP / MySQL / OOP / APIs
• Databases / Server Management
• WordPress Core / Codex
• Logic Building / Debugging
• PHPCS / PHPCBF

Graphics / Web Design:

• Figma / Sketch

WordPress Themes:

• Page Templates / WordPress Customizer
• Theme Developers Handbook

WordPress Plugins:

• Actions / Hooks / Filters
• WP REST API
• WordPress Core Contributor Handbook

WooCommerce:

• WooCommerce Core / Codex
• Custom Themes / Plugins
• Payment Gateways / Shopping Carts
• Shipping APIs

Coding Standards:

• WordPress Standards
• Themeforest Standards
• W3C Standards
• Schema Markup

Integrations:

• REST / SOAP / GraphQL
• JSON / XML
• Shipping / Mail / Apps / Other APIs

Technical SEO:

• Robots / Sitemaps / Yoast SEO
• Google Search Console
• Ryte / MozSEO / Technical SEO Audits

Performance Optimization:

• Lighthouse / Google Page Speed
• Pingdom / GTMetrix / Web Page Test
• Performance Budgets / Performance Audits

Communication:

• Fluency in spoken English
• Flexible hours and occasional work from home option.
• Generous holidays (~20 days per year).
• Health and medical coverage.
• Healthy budgets for conferences, online courses and books (of your choice).
• Company t-shirts, hoodies, beanies and other schwag.
• Performances and annual bonuses.
• Trips and leisure activities.

Compensation:

Salary and compensation is commensurate with experience. Not to worry. The pay is competitive and what you'd expect for this role.

To get considered, send us links to WordPress themes or plugins published on GitHub, Themeforest, WordPress.org or CodeCanyon.

Send your CV along with project details and technology used with live links of the projects.

Read the job description thoroughly before applying.

Information Technology and Services - Lahore, Pakistan