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As the Website Designer & Developer for Trajan Wealth, your role involves creating and maintaining our multiple websites. Your background in design and expertise in web development make you a valuable asset with a fresh perspective. You are interested in user behavior and use UX principles to guide your designs. You are skilled in both code efficiency and creative problem-solving. You have experience working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. You thrive in a collaborative team environment and are willing to assist in other creative projects where needed.
This position is located at our Scottsdale office. Potential for Hybrid opportunity after 6 months of employment.
Duties and responsibilities
Website Maintenance and Administration:
- Site security and troubleshooting errors, such as diagnosing server errors, feed errors, user errors, missing content.
- Working with our hosting company to ensure high-performance and availability and managing all technical aspects of the CMS.
- Overseeing and maintaining development, staging and production environments.
- Writing clear, concise documentation and case updates.
- Analyzing and testing sites/features for optimization and appearance.
- Performing quality-control, such as cross-browser testing, including all common modern browsers, devices.
Design and Develop:
- This role will take on a website re-design with support from the marketing team. We are looking for a candidate who will make recommendations for the best solutions based on their experience.
- The job may involve migrating the existing WordPress sites to a headless CMS platform, ensuring seamless functionality and preserving the design and content layout
- Help create and implement website designs that combine aesthetics with UX/UI
- Design and develop WordPress website and landing page designs by using a mobile-first design.
Thought Leadership, Support, And Brainstorming:
- Acts as a resource for the entire Marketing team, providing guidance on coding, analytics tracking, and user experience.
- Stays abreast of best practices and changing trends within the web design and development fields.
- Ensure Trajan brand standards are applied appropriately and according to marketing strategy.
Qualifications
Core Qualifications include:
- 3+ years' experience in design and developing WordPress sites, Headless Experience Preferred
- Advanced knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
- Experience with front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Vue, React, and Angular
- Advanced knowledge of PHP back-end development.
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).
- Experience with website optimization, including Core Web Vitals.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of UI/UX, working knowledge of graphic design
- Knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG), responsive design, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with others, including identify potential bottlenecks in tasks and projects ahead of schedule.
Desired experience includes:
- Preferred candidate will have experience in both WordPress development and headless CMS systems, with the ability to handle complex migrations and optimize performance
- Experience with Elementor, WPEngine, and Cloudflare.
- Experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite.
- Knowledge of digital marketing and other major marketing channels.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development (WordPress with a focus on headless WordPress), or equivalent experience in related field
- Experience working with Salesforce and/or experience work in a financial field is also a plus.
Benefits
- 401k with matching component up to 13%
- United Healthcare PPO Medical employee coverage paid by Company
- Delta Dental PPO and United Healthcare Vision
- Life Insurance, Short Term and Long Term Disability options
- Pet Insurance and much more
- Generous holidays and PTO
