Senior WordPress Developer, Stanford Law School

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
● Demonstrated significant experience developing for web content management systems, specifically WordPress. Comprehensive understanding of best practices for building custom themes and plugins.
● Demonstrated significant experience in developing websites using open source tools, languages, libraries, and current standards-compliant code.
● Full-stack development experience with the following technologies: HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL
● Demonstrated ability to write, compile, test, debug, and deploy software on UNIX-like platforms and web servers. Comfortable working with command line tools, including version control (Git), package managers and build tools.
● Knowledge of integrating and configuring web analytics services
● Ability to administer and optimize relational databases for performance and memory usage.
● Ability to integrate web services. Experience with fetching and consuming data from REST APIs.
● Ability to interact positively with and build consensus among a diverse group of colleagues, clients, and senior leadership.
● Ability to understand and manage the greater web environment.
● Ability to extend and maintain complex web enterprise systems.
● Familiarity with browser, device, and platform differences and idiosyncrasies, and ability to develop workarounds/fallbacks that maintain a good user experience.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:

● Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks, grasp lightly/fine manipulation.
● Frequently sitting.
● Occasionally stand/walk, use a telephone.
● Rarely write by hand, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
● Strong visual acuity.

* - Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

● This is an in-house, full time position. Working on-site at Stanford Law School is required.
● Stanford is an amazing place to work — join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available to support you and your family throughout your Stanford career. More information: https://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards.

WORK STANDARDS:

● Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
● Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.

Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.