Web Engineer (WordPress)- Contractor

A company’s website is often the first touchpoint for those wanting to learn more, making it essential to be attractive, functional, and user-friendly. As a WordPress Engineer at Microblink, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining our corporate site—an essential driver of inbound lead generation.

A little bit about us 

Microblink is an AI company specializing in computer vision and identity fraud detection. We create unique products and tools designed to make the future of digital identity a secure "no-fake-zone." Our expertise includes running efficient machine learning models directly on-device, enabling a uniquely seamless Identity Verification (IDV) experience. With teams across the US and Europe and main offices in New York and Zagreb, we touch hundreds of millions of users each year worldwide.

Explore our tech in action here.

Here’s what you’ll do

You will be responsible for ensuring the website is secure, functional, and meets the needs of the organization and visitors. You will help the organization stay up-to-date with the latest best practices, ensuring that the website remains competitive, effective and easy to navigate. 

You'll be successful in this role if you:

• Strong WordPress core knowledge: safe updates, hooks, filters, actions
• Custom blocks, page templates with ACF Pro; custom themes and plugins
• Siteground hosting, deployment, and caching (WP Rocket)
• REST API integration
• JavaScript (Vanilla JS, jQuery), Tailwind CSS, SCSS, NPM for asset building
• Version control with GIT
• Multilingual sites (WPML)
• SEO, security best practices, troubleshooting, and cross-browser testing
• Basic UX/UI principles
• HubSpot CMS development (custom modules with HUBL) and CLI tools
• Strong English communication skills, experience in global/distributed teams

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Take finalized Figma designs/animations to develop into pixel-perfect, responsive, device-agnostic, cross-browser-friendly WordPress pages and HubSpot landing page templates
• Utilize PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS and industry standards to execute the design into a WordPress site
• Collaborate with DevOps, Marketing, SEO and Design teams to a provide a high quality, well-functioning and great performing site
• Configure and code the site to make maintenance straight forward
• Design and implement new features and functionality
• Establish and guide the website's architecture
• Ensuring high performance and availability, and managing technical aspects of the CMS
• Own troubleshooting and documentation related to the Microblink domain
• Ensure consistent and smooth user experience between microblink.com, demo apps, developer hub and developer documentation
• Monitor web traffic using Google Analytics and Google Search Console, and flag and troubleshoot issues on an ongoing basis

Why join us:

This is a longer term gig, a full-time contractor role (40 hours per week). You'll work with us on a range of identity challenges, helping to build exceptional digital products. You'll also have the opportunity to visit our office in central Zagreb and collaborate closely with our award-winning design and experienced marketing team. 

At Microblink, we nurture a culture that recognizes and rewards success and is not afraid to try, fail and learn from mistakes. Find out what it feels like to work at Microblink. If you get in touch with us, we promise to get back to you.

Microblink LLC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, from hiring to the end of your business relationship with us. Accordingly, this job advertisement is equally applicable to all people and Microblink will make a hiring decision based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We prohibit discrimination of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws, as well as our internal policies and culture.

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