Front-End Developer - WordPress & Modern CSS Specialist

Crowd Favorite, a leading enterprise Open Source agency, is looking for an experienced front-end developer to join our team, specializing in modern CSS architecture, native WordPress block development, and component-based front-end solutions. We are looking for someone who excels at writing clean code, understands the structure behind technical decisions, is well-versed at troubleshooting and investigating issues, and can clearly communicate in both technical and non-technical language. As a member of Crowd Favorite, you'll leverage your skills to both build new features and maintain high-performing content management platforms for enterprise clients, with a focus on stability and performance while growing your technical capabilities. You'll be building responsive, accessible user interfaces using modern CSS techniques, creating custom WordPress Gutenberg blocks and full-site-editing features, and developing Javascript components that integrate seamlessly with PHP backends.

This is a fully remote position available worldwide, requiring availability during US Pacific Time business hours (9 AM - 6 PM PST/PDT). We're looking for a creative problem-solving developer who excels at translating designs into pixel-perfect, performant user experiences.

What You'll Be Working On

• Building custom WordPress blocks and modern solutions using the latest features for theme.json and full-site-editing for large-scale editing workflow needs
• Creating responsive, accessible front-end experiences using modern CSS Grid, Flexbox, and custom properties
• Developing reusable components and component libraries
• Integrating React or Vue front-ends with WordPress and Laravel APIs for custom front-end experiences
• Implementing complex CSS animations and micro-interactions
• Converting design systems into maintainable CSS architectures
• Building automated testing features to document experiences across multiple types of devices

Requirements

Code Portfolio Requirements

Applications without these will not be reviewed. This is a development position, requiring solid evidence of your ability to build effective code and you should be ready to discuss your code, implementation decisions, and testing approaches.

• GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket link showing custom WordPress blocks you've built
• Live site examples demonstrating advanced CSS techniques (Grid, custom properties, etc.)
• Components or custom blocks you've developed

Required Experience

• 2-3+ years of advanced CSS development (Grid, Flexbox, custom properties, container queries)
• 2+ years of WordPress theme and block development, including custom post types and fields
• 2+ years of React or Vue component development, particularly interfacing with REST APIs
• 2+ years creating and maintaining design systems or component libraries
• Demonstrable experience with CSS methodologies (BEM, utility-first, CSS-in-JS, etc.)
• Strong portfolio showing responsive, cross-browser compatible work
• Experience with build tools like Webpack, Vite, or similar bundlers
• Familiarity with PHP and the particulars for integrated work with WordPress requirements as well as Laravel front-end needs
• Knowledge of PSR-4 autoloading and PHP namespace conventions for organized, maintainable WordPress and Laravel codebases
• Writing effective automated tests (unit, integration, and functional) to ensure code reliability and facilitate confident deployments across complex projects
• Accessibility expertise including WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
• Git workflow proficiency in collaborative team environments

Preferred Experience

• Experience with CSS preprocessors (Sass/SCSS) and PostCSS
• WordPress plugin development and customization
• Web component creation (lit-html, Stencil, or vanilla)
• Animation libraries (Framer Motion, GSAP, etc.)
• Performance optimization and Core Web Vitals improvement
• Headless WordPress implementations

Communication & Collaboration

• B2 level of spoken and written English language proficiency
• Comfortable working productively with a distributed team
• Able to communicate technical decisions clearly to clients and stakeholders
• Experience translating design requirements into development specifications
• Strong written communication for code documentation and project updates

We know great developers come from various backgrounds. If you're comfortable with most of what we've described but don't check every box, we encourage you to apply. We value potential and eagerness to learn as much as existing expertise.

Benefits

Crowd Favorite has a package of benefits that demonstrates our commitment to our team. Our time off policy is permissive, and covers holidays specific to your location, illness and professional development. We believe that a truly quality work-life balance requires a flexible and thoughtful approach to time away from work.

We respect the life our team leads, and even though we are not subject to FMLA or other requirements, we provide a family leave policy that is quite generous.

For our full-time US based employees we provide a 3 tier insurance option with United Healthcare and we provide a contribution to the cost of your monthly premium, which increases after a year if you are covering a family member (spouse or child). We also cover the cost completely for dental, vision and a small life insurance policy through Guardian Insurance. Finally, we also cover the cost for a telemedicine option through Healthiest You, which has the benefit of no copays for visits.

For US based team members, we have a competitive 401(k) retirement plan with Human Interest, and we match your contribution up to 4%. We offer a profit sharing type bonus program (as a discretionary benefit.)

We support you with provision of company hardware if needed, additional work space items upon request, all tools and subscriptions at company cost, educational accounts for training, and even travel and other costs related to professional development.

Crowd Favorite is committed to building an inclusive experience for all our employees. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you’re parenting those future problem solvers, we firmly believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be who they are.

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