WordPress Front-End Developer

Overview

DEPARTMENT:
Marketing

JOB TITLE:
Word Press Front-End Developer

REPORTS TO:
Digital Marketing Manager

WHO WE ARE:
Nuvative is a fast-growing innovative technology company impacting employees through continuing education and guidance. As an employer of choice, we provide our employees with a culture of kindness, fairness, self-development, contribution, collaboration, diversity, innovation, and fun.

OUR OFFERING:
We provide our customers with the opportunity to secure the cash they need, quickly and securely online through our subsidiary, Net Pay Advance, Inc. Our suite of online lending solutions features payday loans, installment loans, and line of credit.

JOB PURPOSE:
This role plays a key part in delivering a high-quality, secure, and scalable web experience for Nuvative and its affiliated companies. The Word Press Front-End Developer owns the front-end architecture, site optimization, and execution of web initiatives that support business growth. Working within the Marketing department, they ensure our digital platforms meet both creative and technical performance standards.

• Own all aspects of website management, updates, and front-end development
• Manage, build, and make changes to website using reusable Tailwind patterns, components, and documentation for long-term scalability
• Lead the transition of the existing Word Press website into a Tailwind based front-end environment, including converting hard coded and legacy elements into Tailwind components, and managing a remote part-time contractor to support this project, ensuring code quality, consistency, and timely progress
• Convert Figma designs into responsive, polished, fully functional webpages
• Update or maintain existing pages (pre-Tailwind transition) using Elementor, Gutenberg, Advanced Custom Fields, custom PHP templates, or custom code
• Ensure the website is optimized for speed, accessibility, UX, and mobile performance
• Create high quality interactive user experiences, including animations and micro-interactions
• Oversee hosting-level tasks, including coordinating with Kinsta, monitoring site health, managing caching systems, and resolving outages or conflicts quickly
• Partner with IT on security and infrastructure issues and initiate contact with Kinsta or other providers when needed
• Monitor the site through a technical lens—checking logs, uptime, vulnerabilities, redirects, and broken links
• Use tools like Screaming Frog to identify issues and opportunities; will sometimes partner with SEO Content Specialist to provide list of pages that could use optimizations or changes
• Implement and maintain technical SEO best practices, including metadata, schema, site speed improvements, internal linking structure, and crawlability
• Ensure all pages follow SEO guidelines and best practices in both structure and content formatting
• Support Marketing with blog publishing, layout improvements, and content optimization
• Clearly communicate technical concepts and issues in both technical language (with IT) and simple, non-technical language (with other departments)
• Work flexibly across agile and non-agile workflows, collaborating with IT’s sprint cycles when needed while supporting Marketing’s priority-driven work
• Provide technical input on projects that require IT coordination or cross-departmental support

• 3–5+ years of front-end development experience focused on Word Press
• Proficiency with:
• Elementor
• Gutenberg / Block Editor
• Advanced Custom Fields
• Tailwind CSS
• Custom PHP
• HTML, CSS, Java Script
• Experience converting designs into pixel-perfect pages from Figma
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across hosting, caching, CDN, and Word Press environments
• Experience with animations, interactive UI elements, and refined UX interactions
• Experience publishing blogs and updating content within Word Press
• Familiarity with Cloudflare (in partnership with IT)
• Experience with Click Up or similar project management tools
• Understanding of Word Press security best practices
• Vendor, contractor, or leader management experience preferred

• Strong understanding of responsive design, performance optimization, and mobile-first development.
• Strong visual judgment…