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Wordpress Engineer

Posted 2024-11-07

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📍 Location: USA, East Africa, East Africa, NYC

🔍 Industry: Non-profit / Charity

🏢 Company: GiveDirectly

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: HTMLCSSJavascriptJavaScriptProblem Solving

Requirements:
  • You care about our mission, to end extreme poverty.
  • You agree with our values.
  • You have emotional intelligence and can foster inclusivity.
  • You possess a problem-solving attitude and the ability to manage complex systems.
  • You know how to manage a Wordpress site and create/update themes and blocks.
  • You have experience debugging layout issues and hand-crafting CSS/HTML.
  • You can work independently while keeping teammates informed.
Responsibilities:
  • Maintain our Wordpress infrastructure to ensure it is always secure and available.
  • Plan, review and schedule updates to the core site, plugins and other dependencies.
  • Manage our hosting to ensure optimal performance.
  • Work closely with the in-house designer and staff to implement new Wordpress components and style changes.
  • Conduct A/B testing for crucial pages.
  • Clean up the website to facilitate future changes.
  • Identify unnecessary pages and delete old plugins and code.
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