Front-End Developer - WordPress & Modern CSS Specialist

Front-End Developer - Word Press & Modern CSS Specialist

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$75,000.00/yr - $85,000.00/yr

Crowd Favorite, a leading enterprise Open Source agency, is looking for an experienced front-end developer to join our team, specializing in modern CSS architecture, native Word Press block development, and component-based front-end solutions. We are looking for someone who excels at writing clean code, understands the structure behind technical decisions, is well-versed at troubleshooting and investigating issues, and can clearly communicate in both technical and non-technical language.

As a member of Crowd Favorite, you'll leverage your skills to both build new features and maintain high-performing content management platforms for enterprise clients, with a focus on stability and performance while growing your technical capabilities. You'll be building responsive, accessible user interfaces using modern CSS techniques, creating custom Word Press Gutenberg blocks and full-site-editing features, and developing Java script components that integrate seamlessly with PHP backends.

• Building custom Word Press blocks and modern solutions using the latest features for theme.json and full-site-editing for large-scale editing workflow needs
• Creating responsive, accessible front-end experiences using modern CSS Grid, Flexbox, and custom properties
• Developing reusable components and component libraries
• Integrating React or Vue front-ends with Word Press and Laravel APIs for custom front-end experiences
• Implementing complex CSS animations and micro-interactions
• Converting design systems into maintainable CSS architectures
• Building automated testing features to document experiences across multiple types of devices

Applications without these will not be reviewed. This is a development position, requiring solid evidence of your ability to build effective code and you should be ready to discuss your code, implementation decisions, and testing approaches.

• Git Hub/Git Lab/Bitbucket link showing custom Word Press blocks you've built
• Live site examples demonstrating advanced CSS techniques (Grid, custom properties, etc.)
• Components or custom blocks you've developed

• 2-3+ years of advanced CSS development (Grid, Flexbox, custom properties, container queries)
• 2+ years of Word Press theme and block development, including custom post types and fields
• 2+ years of React or Vue component development, particularly interfacing with REST APIs
• 2+ years creating and maintaining design systems or component libraries
• Demonstrable experience with CSS methodologies (BEM, utility-first, CSS-in-JS, etc.)
• Strong portfolio showing responsive, cross-browser compatible work
• Experience with build tools like Webpack, Vite, or similar bundlers
• Familiarity with PHP and the particulars for integrated work with Word Press requirements as well as Laravel front-end needs
• Knowledge of PSR-4 autoloading and PHP namespace conventions for organized, maintainable Word Press and Laravel codebases
• Writing effective automated tests (unit, integration, and functional) to ensure code reliability and facilitate confident deployments across complex projects
• Accessibility expertise including WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
• Git workflow proficiency in collaborative team environments

• Experience with CSS preprocessors (Sass/SCSS) and PostCSS
• Word Press plugin development and customization
• Web component creation (lit-html, Stencil, or vanilla)
• Animation libraries (Framer Motion, GSAP, etc.)
• Performance optimization and Core Web Vitals improvement
• Headless Word Press implementations

• B2 level of spoken and written English language proficiency
• Comfortable working productively with a distributed team
• Able to communicate technical decisions clearly to clients and stakeholders
• Experience translating design requirements into development specifications
• Strong written communication for code…