Hello! Are you ready to Work from Home and transform your career?
We're looking for a WordPress Engineer to join the Modus Marketing team. Are you a knowledgeable engineer who excels at building beautiful, performant websites? In this role, you will work with the Marketing and Business Development teams to help Modus Create tell its unique story through our web channels - attracting, educating, and capturing prospects.
About You
You are a versatile engineer with experience working with PHP, WordPress and associated plugins. With your extensive knowledge, you’ve helped Marketing departments and businesses tell their story; including increasing discoverability through SEO, building high performing and engagement pages and modules for web apps, aiding tracking and conversion with optimizations, tracking bots, and tagging.
You bring 2-4 years experience in CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, an understanding of visual editors such as Beaver Builder and Gutenberg, a good understanding of Web services, REST and RPC APIs and a proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git. Having built Gutenberg components with React is a plus. Additionally, you’ll be expected to possess knowledge of SEO principles, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. Having experience working on Marketing websites a plus, as is an understanding of Agile methodologies.
You’re deeply committed to learning about and engaging existing and prospective customers. As the champion of Modus’ voice in the market, you are counted on to be proactive in bringing to the table ideas for our website. Much like the products we build for our clients, we want the Modus website to be a beautiful, intuitive, and highly performant experience.
You love learning and bringing new thinking to your job. Modus is full of lifetime learners, so you’ll fit right in. Our industry and marketing approach are ever-evolving; therefore, being innovative about how we present our content and messaging on our website is key. You enjoy exploring and testing new ideas & platforms and are motivated to find key insights that unlock new ideas.
You will be responsible for building, maintaining and updating Modus Create web properties in CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress. In order to do that, you’ll be expected to produce high quality production ready code in an agile environment; improving usability, architecture and adding new features to our consumer-facing web presence. You’ll also help the team with A/B testing and optimization to improve conversion and engagement.
You will be responsible for identifying and executing a backlog of remediation and improvement steps, proactively identifying refinements to Modus’ web channels. Collaborating with others in the Marketing department, the Engineer will work with the Design team to build and display assets that align with the Modus brand style guide. To provide real-time analytics and assist the Marketing team with customer intelligence, lead generation and retargeting, you will be expected to Integrate HubSpot, Google and social media tracking code.
Things You Might Do
Modus is a fast-growing, and remote-first company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here are some things you'll probably do:
- Give back to the community via open source and blog posts
- Travel and meet great people- as part of our remote-first lifestyle, it's important that we come together as needed to work together, meet each other in person and have fun together. Please keep that in mind when you apply.
- Teach and be taught: Modus creates active teams that work in internal and external projects together, giving opportunities to stay relevant with the latest technologies and learning from experts worldwide
- Interact directly with internal and external clients to represent Modus and its values
Why Modus Create:
Our Benefits may vary according to the Country you are located in, so please reach out to our recruiter in case you have any questions.
If you become a contractor we offer:
- Competitive compensation
- 100% Remote work
- The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech
Do you have what it takes? Apply today!
About Modus
Modus Create is a digital product agency that accelerates digital transformation. We use high performing small teams, emerging technology, and “new school” product development tools and methods to accelerate business outcomes. We support our clients across four core delivery areas: business and product strategy consulting, customer experience, cloud services, and Agile software delivery.
Driven by a team of world-class talent, we have been recognized by the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies 5 years in a row, the Washington Business Journal list of Fastest Growing Companies in the Washington, DC area two years in a row, and a top company for remote work by FlexJobs. We’re also an official partner to Atlassian, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, InVision, Ionic Framework, and Vue.js!
Based on the model of an open source team, Modites work remotely, and are located across the globe. That’s allowed us to hire the best talent in the world, no matter where they live. Our highly collaborative, autonomous, and effective working environment is fueled by a team unified by a love of continuous learning. Our years of thought leadership including books, whitepapers, blog posts, conference and MeetUp talks, demonstrate our commitment to sharing what we’ve learned.
We encourage every Modus employee to do the same. Our company is a platform for the growth of our employees. Through working with our distributed team of experts on challenging projects, every person that joins the Modus team can expect to continue growing and learning every day. This is your chance to be part of building something great.
Deadline for applications: 17.01.2021.
