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Pay: $18/hour

Hours: 35 hours per week

Term: 8 week contract through Canada Summer Jobs

Reporting to the Director of Marketing, the WordPress Developer will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development.

To be eligible to apply, you must be:

(a) between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) at the start of employment;
(b) a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee protection has been conferred under the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act*; and
(c) legally entitled to work according to the relevant provincial / territorial legislation and regulations.
*International students are not eligible. Recent immigrants are eligible if they are Canadian Citizens or permanent residents.

• Support front-end and back-end website development
• Designing, updating and implementing new features and functionality on the WordPress platform
• Supporting and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design
• Monitor the performance of the website
• Identify and fix bugs that are found within the code
• Platform maintenance, optimization and security
• Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack
• Troubleshoot and resolve website problems for co-workers
• Collaborate with members of a creative team

Education

• Bachelor, College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma

Experience

•  2-3+ years experience

Thank you for your interest. Applications for this position are now closed. You can check out our Tech Jobs Board for other positions that are currently hiring.