Wordpress Engineer

Summary

Join GiveDirectly, a leading non-profit organization, as a Wordpress Developer and contribute to transforming people's lives by improving the www.givedirectly.org website. This role offers flexible work options, including full-time or 80% part-time, with a minimum of 4 hours overlap with the NYC timezone each day.

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 (we currently use wpengine, but are open to other solutions if you want and there is an in-house software engineering team if you need more support)
• Improve www.givedirectly.org to raise more $. This means working closely with our in-house designer, website manager and other staff to
• Implement new wordpress components so other GD people can develop and update pages and blog posts independently
• Implement style and theme changes across the site, including menus and footers etc
• Completely implement and A/B test changes to our most important pages
• Clean up www.givedirectly.org to make future changes cheaper
• Work with our website manager to identify pages that are no longer needed
• Work with the designer to try and clean up our legacy styles and themes
• Clean up or out old plugins and old code and old approaches