WordPress Developer (Remote)

🏷️Title: WordPress Developer

👫Department: Development

📍Location: UK or Europe, Remote

About Block Labs

Block Labs is a leading force in the Web3 space, incubating, investing in, and accelerating top-tier fintech, crypto and iGaming projects. With a mission to shape the future of decentralized technology, we partner with visionary startups to raise funding, refine product-market fit, and grow their audiences. Our diverse team drives innovation, using deep industry expertise and an extensive network to empower the next wave of blockchain-driven companies. At Block Labs, we’re passionate about turning bold ideas into breakthrough success.

We’re looking for a WordPress Developer to join our growing team!

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced and talented design focused WordPress Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the colour and font choices).

Key Responsibilities

Custom Design Expertise

• Experience in designing and implementing custom WordPress post types and taxonomies.
• Ability to translate design concepts into functional and responsive WordPress websites.
• Designing and implementing new features and functionality.
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture.

Theme and plugin customisation

• Demonstrated ability to build custom WordPress themes from scratch or modify existing ones to meet specific design and functionality requirements.
• Proficiency in creating and customising WordPress plugins to extend core functionality or integrate third-party services.
• Deep understanding of WordPress template hierarchy, hooks, and actions.
• Familiarity with popular WordPress page builders (e.g., Elementor, Divi)

Strong proficiency in creating dynamic and interactive elements

• Expertise in vanilla JavaScript or modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js) for building interactive user interfaces.
• Mastery of HTML5 and CSS3, including advanced layout techniques (e.g., Flexbox, Grid), responsive design principles, and animations.
• Experience with JavaScript libraries like jQuery or D3.js for DOM manipulation and data visualisation.
• Ability to optimise front-end performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

Expertise in integrating APIs to fetch and display data in visually appealing formats

• Proficiency in making AJAX requests to RESTful or GraphQL APIs using JavaScript or PHP.
• Ability to handle and process API responses efficiently, including error handling and data sanitization.
• Understanding of data formatting and transformation techniques to prepare API data for visualisation.

About You

• Extensive experience in WordPress development.
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment and participate fully in agile software development processes.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Nice to have – Experience with data visualisation libraries like Chart.js, Highcharts, or D3.js to create interactive and informative charts and graphs.
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
• Experience with WordPress debugging and performance optimization.
• Experience with modern build tools and development processes (e.g., npm, webpack, etc.).