WordPress Developer Extraordinaire; Mid - Senior
Listed on 2026-09-23
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IT/Tech
Web Developer
Sandton, South Africa | Posted on 24/11/2025
Firewater has been around for 26 years and we’re still weird enough to enjoy it. Now we’re looking for a Word Press developer who actually builds things. Not someone who assembles sites from marketplace parts
- someone who writes the parts
.
If you can make W
ord Press dance
, bend Woo Commerce without breaking it
, and stay calm when PHP decides to throw a tantrum, you might be the one.
We don’t want a keyboard philosopher arguing on Reddit or collecting memes all day. We want someone who lives the web, dreams in clean code
, and gets quietly excited by an elegant API response.
- Being the oracle of all things Word Press
, from technical scoping and planning to implementation and deployment. - Building websites (mostly Word Press and Woo Commerce) that are fast, functional, and easy on the eyes and search engines roll out the red carps for you.
- Developing custom themes, plugins, and API integrations that make clients say, “Wait, you can do that?”
- Keeping things running smoothly through website maintenance, updates, and troubleshooting.
- Performing QA and bug fixes before anyone even notices something’s off.
- Occasionally guiding clients through their CMS like a digital spirit guide.
- Word Press , inside and out: custom themes, plugins, functions, hooks, the works.
- HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, PHP, Git , the usual suspects.
- API integrations : REST, JSON, and other acronyms that make the web go round.
- MySQL and database management.
- Familiarity with hosting environments such as cPanel, WHM, Plesk, and sFTP.
- Version control and not losing your cool when merging branches.
- A touch of Photoshop or equivalent for resizing and optimising the occasional image.
- Debugging under pressure without flipping a table.
- A comprehensive portfolio of previous work.
- A bonus if you can wield Linux like a medieval swordsmith.
You’re logical, methodical , and know your way around website architecture.
You notice the tiny details ; that one-pixel misalignment keeps you up at night.
You communicate like a human (and spell like one too).
You play nicely with others (and don’t hoard the coffee).
You’re self-driven, dependable, and disciplined with your time because great code doesn’t write itself.
If you’re ready to build things that matter, impress clients, and occasionally survive a Friday deadline with style,
step up to the plate.
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