Web Developer

Role Overview

• Responsible for the planning and executing delivery of website improvements and updates.
• Execute everything from speed optimization to user experience improvements and custom tracking scripts to landing page builds.
• Integrate closely with the SEO and paid search teams by implementing performance recommendations on client’s websites.
• Skillfully deploy technical improvements and customizations on various content management systems like WordPress, Shopify, and Magento.
• Maintain optimum site health while delighting clients with superior functionality, UX, and performance.
• Monitor and maintain a portfolio of websites to ensure superior performance, minimizing errors and downtime.

Requirements

• You have a verifiable, proven track record of customizing, updating, and maintaining web-standard CMSs like WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, and others.
• You have serious developer chops. You know your way around backend and frontend technologies and are experienced working with Javascript frontend frameworks/SPAs and other emerging technologies.
• You have the knack for creating well-documented, reusable code for website improvements, custom theme development, plugin creation, and automation.
• While you are a developer first, you take pride in keeping up with SEO fundamentals and trends. You enjoy reading up on industry blogs and sharing insights with team members.
• You know how to get your point across. Whether you’re writing an email or Slack message to a teammate, or sharing your recommendations with a client, your communication style is always concise and effective
• While your primary role is execution, you’re also eager to share strategic opinions and recommendations.
• You possess superior problem-solving skills and can tackle complex problems and translate them into actionable solutions.
• You approach your work with urgency, organize and prioritize your work, and meet deadlines without micromanagement.
• You don’t just find problems, you find solutions! You anticipate hiccups and provide proactive solutions. You are always one step ahead.
• A proven successful track record of having worked on improving and maintaining sites as small as a few hundred pages to sites as large as hundreds of thousands of URLs. Lastly, to fit in at SEO Sherpa, a fun-going attitude is not pleasant to have. It's a must.

Tech Stack

• JavaScript
• Magento
• WordPress

Benefits

• The opportunity to work with a talented team on an important mission.
• Above market salary + incentives.
• Unlimited (paid) personal time off for vacation, sick, and wellness days.
• Full-time, flexible hours, and the freedom to work from home (or anywhere else) within timezones of 4 hours +/
• of Dubai.
• Radical transparency across business metrics and information (we call this "open for business").
• 100% company-paid health insurance.
• When the company does well, so will you. 8-15% of the net profit gets shared amongst the team members you included.
• Regular training, professional workshops, and book purchases are covered by us.
• Team retreats and meet-ups that bring together our remote-first workforce.
• A fun work culture where we value your work and our client's business.