Socius Marketing is looking for a Junior WordPress Developer to join our team. Do you have what it takes to create beautiful, converting web pages and marketing pieces for technology companies? If you are a creative developer with a strong understanding of responsive design, a passion for communicating value through web content and interaction, and experience with WordPress, then this role could be perfect for you

You:

You are passionate about bringing designs to life and writing clean code. You’ve built up the knowledge and experience to confidently build web pages from scratch and have experience building and maintaining WordPress websites. You’re ready to work at high velocity across many brands. You yearn to learn more about modern marketing, best practices, and all things front-end development. You’re looking for new challenges, and leadership to support your growth.

Us:

Socius Marketing, an EverCommerce company, is a full-service Internet marketing firm that is consistently one of the fastest growing companies in the Tampa Bay area. We offer tremendous growth opportunities to motivated individuals.

At EverCommerce, we provide software that powers the service economy. Our industry-tailored solutions digitally transform daily operations. Invigorate marketing and messaging. And modernize engagement between customers and their service professionals.

We are building an extraordinary company and looking for talented, energetic, and motivated people to join our team.

Where:

Serving a national client base, Socius is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, in the prestigious Rocky Point area. The Socius office offer panoramic views of Tampa Bay, and a corporate gym and deli are conveniently located on premises. While our ideal candidate will already be local to the Tampa Bay metro area, we are open to top candidates from across the U.S.

Some Key Responsibilities:

• Use HTML / CSS / JavaScript to develop visually stunning user-driven websites without a wysiwyg editor.

• Maintain familiarity with content management and eCommerce solutions such as WordPress, Joomla and Magento

• Work within current creative team to develop and maintain highly visible client web sites

• Developing and supporting reusable internal tools to support the Design and Sales departments

• Set up, manage, and configure hosting environments

• Proactively perform cross-browser testing and optimizations

• Maintain well-documented, reusable, and transferrable code

• Maintain working knowledge of new development software, trends, and practices related to your responsibilities

Skills and Qualifications:

• 1+ years full-time experience with primary duties focus on web design and front-end development in a production environment

• Analytical thinker and problem solver, ability to come up with solutions to diverse problems

• Ability to create high-quality designs and build into a functioning browser compatible website, using proper markup, CSS and argument with interactive features using JS, jQuery, etc.

• Familiarity with content management and eCommerce solutions such as WordPress, Joomla and Magento

• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), & PHP

• Familiar with MySQL and SQL database infrastructure

• Cross-browser and cross-platform compatible design and development

• Expert understanding of the latest and legacy browser capabilities, including mobile

• Familiar with formal QA methodologies, processes and techniques

• Design software power-user (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc…)

• Experience designing within a grid framework

• Adept at making pixel perfect sites that meet design/technical requirements

• Experience and knowledge with SEO best practices

• Experience and knowledge of Google Analytics

• Analytical problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  

Bonus Qualifications:

• Existing agency experience

• Experience connecting to third-party info using various API techniques

• ASP experience

• Responsive design experience using media queries and/or frameworks

• Experience with device specific design and development

• Functional knowledge of performance optimization techniques
  

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary - the target range for this role is $40-45k

• Flexibility to work where/how you want – in-office, remote, or hybrid

• Continued investment in your professional development

• Robust health and wellness benefits

• 401k with up to a 4% match

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Start with 17 days of PTO, 11 holidays, and a day off to volunteer each year

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Snacks, lunches, and happy hours (when the office is open)