Remote Senior Web Engineer

Summary

Join Human Made as a Senior Web Engineer freelancer to work on interesting projects with top talent, gain experience in an agency without a long-term commitment, and potentially become a full-time employee. The job involves taking ownership of projects, assisting other developers, architecting complex subsystems, debugging code, improving tooling, and remaining informed on development best practices.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of engineering with JavaScript and/or PHP
• Expert WordPress knowledge
• Ability to debug your own code and that of others
• Experience in using debugging tools
• Expert HTML5 & CSS
• Experience in versioning technologies such as Git
• Solid understanding of MySQL and the considerations of database-driven applications
• Extensive experience using RESTful APIs
• Ability to set up local development environments
• Proficiency in written and oral communication in English, and ability to utilise and parse through technical terminology comfortably
• Ability to manage your workload and juggle multiple tasks
• In-depth understanding of performance considerations
• In-depth understanding of security considerations
• Ability to architect complex subsystems
• Comprehensive understanding of WordPress
• Proven experience working on large enterprise WordPress development projects

Responsibilities

• Take ownership at a project level for not only your own work, but work that interacts or impacts your own
• Assist other developers on your projects
• Architect projects and complex subsystems
• Carry out bug fixes and debugging not only in your own work, but others on your projects; no bug should be too obscure!
• Take an active role in improving tooling, code, and communication whether directly on a current project or assisting others on their projects
• Remain informed on development best practices within the industry
• Proactively address technical issues as they arise
• Consistently be pushing for performance and security considerations and improvements
• Provide useful architectural input and feedback for whole systems, drawing on knowledge of CS fundamentals, other programming paradigms or frameworks
• Write technical documentation for project architecture and decisions