The Full-Stack Web Applications Developer will build, customize, and maintain high-performance, secure WordPress-based web applications and sites for our customers. The role focuses on creating clean, well-documented code, developing and customizing themes and plugins, and ensuring reliable, high-quality user experiences aligned with our security-first, fully managed hosting environment.

Primary Responsibilities

 

• Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites using Avada, Divi, and custom themes, ensuring responsive, high-performance front-end experiences.
• Design, develop, and maintain custom WordPress plugins and themes using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery, following best practices and coding standards.
• Write clean, well-structured, and well-documented code, including inline documentation and technical documentation for features and changes.
• Collaborate with internal teams (support, project management, and other developers) to implement new features, troubleshoot issues, and improve existing solutions.
• Optimize websites and web applications for performance, security, and scalability, aligning with our security-first and high-availability environment.
• Use GitHub for version control, code reviews, and collaborative development workflows.
• Debug and resolve front-end and back-end issues in WordPress sites and custom web applications.
   

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with WordPress, including custom theme and plugin development.
• Proficiency with Avada and Divi themes, including advanced customization and performance optimization.
• Solid knowledge of PHP and MySQL for building and maintaining dynamic, data-driven web applications.
• Strong front-end skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery, with a focus on responsive and cross-browser compatible interfaces.
• Experience using GitHub or similar version control platforms in a collaborative development environment.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code and follow established coding standards and best practices.
• Excellent English communication skills (reading, writing, and speaking).
• Ability and willingness to work aligned with Texas, USA business hours.
• Strong understanding of web application security fundamentals, including common vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, authentication/authorization flaws, and input validation.
• Experience implementing secure coding practices in PHP, JavaScript, and WordPress (proper escaping/sanitization, prepared statements, secure session handling, password hashing).
• Hands-on experience with WordPress security hardening, including managing updates, secure configuration, user roles/permissions, security plugins, and protection against brute-force/bot attacks.
• Familiarity with TLS/HTTPS, certificate management concepts, and secure configuration of web servers and reverse proxies at a high level.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices (least-privilege IAM, secure storage of secrets, network security groups/firewalls, encryption at rest and in transit).
• Experience working with backups, disaster recovery concepts, and incident response basics (detecting, triaging, and mitigating security or availability incidents).
• Ability to use monitoring and logging tools to detect performance and security issues (error logs, access logs, application monitoring, security alerts)