Senior Software Engineer – WordPress (Remote)
Job Description
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
The Senior WordPress Developer, CE Digital Marketing Channel IT is responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins across multiple WordPress VIP multi-sites. The candidate should have extensive experience with a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript), strong content management skills, and a good eye for aesthetics. A strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems is desired, as well as the ability to identify opportunities to improve services, contribute ideas to coding best practices and new technologies, and liaison between business and technical teams.
Responsibilities
Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes
Collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components) for reuse across projects
Converting project requirements into proposals for implementation (estimating time/resources, planning tasks/timeline, etc)
Platform/multisite maintenance and optimization
Code Reviews and Feedback
Mentor junior developers and lead community of practitioners/developers
Work planning and issue management
Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration
Documentation and Coding Standards
Theme and Plugin Security
Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack
Education
Bachelor Degree preferred
Qualifications
5+ plus years of working experience in Web Development
3+ years of working experience in WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg)
Expert at writing PHP (object-oriented, dependency injection, etc)
Experienced with WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE)/Block-Based theme development
Solid understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)
Familiar with important WordPress security concepts
Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
Familiarity with PSR specifications
Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review
Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
Optimizing sites for performance
Interacting with REST API/ GraphQL
Manage and sustain multiple projects at once while working cross-functionally across business and IT teams
Who we are …
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for …
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS
In accordance with all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.
If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.
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Under New York City law, the Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.
Expected salary range:
$96,700.00-$164,500.00
For positions located in the United States and Puerto Rico – Subject to applicable law, all new hires (including internal transfers) must demonstrate that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or that they qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement. New hires (including internal transfers) to a position that, as determined by the Company, requires routine collaboration with external stakeholders (such as roles in health services or customer-facing commercial or research-based roles) (“Customer-Facing Role”) who are not vaccinated must qualify for a medical or religious exemption and be in a position that the Company determines can accommodate unvaccinated employees without causing an undue burden to business operations. If, following dialog with the candidate as appropriate, it is determined that the candidate either a) does not qualify for a religious or medical exemption or, b) for candidates applying for Customer-Facing roles, it is determined that allowing the candidate to work without vaccination would cause an undue burden to the Company, the candidate will be ineligible for hire or transfer, or any offer of employment or transfer (if applicable) will be revoked. Please note that notwithstanding the approval of any reasonable accommodation, the Company reserves the right to monitor, modify, or revoke any such accommodation if it is determined, following dialog with the employee, that the accommodation is no longer effective or results in an undue burden to the Company.
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Under New York City, Washington State and California State law, the Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.
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Employee Status: Regular
Relocation: No relocation
VISA Sponsorship: No
Travel Requirements: 10%
Flexible Work Arrangements: Remote Work
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Number of Openings: 1
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