WordPress Team Lead

Sidelines Group is looking for an experienced and passionate WordPress Team Lead to join our DEV Team. You will be responsible for the company's WordPress assets for both back-end and front-end development, including optimizing WordPress themes and plugins & improving performance.

We are expecting you to have a strong understanding of the latest industry trends.

About Sidelines

Sidelines Group is one of the fastest-growing sports betting and iGaming affiliate companies in the industry, specializing in experience-driven technology.

We’re looking for employees who are ambitious, willingly take ownership, and execute effectively - all to power the company forward.

What will you do?

• Lead and manage a team of remote Wordpress Developers, including mentoring, training, and task assignment.
• Writing clean, well-commented, functional code on the front and backend
• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Being versatile, accommodating and willing to think collectively – outside-of-the-box
  
  

• At least 2 years of management experience in leading small to medium teams with hands-on responsibility.
• 3+ years of experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• 2+ years of experience developing in WordPress
• Knowledge of multiple frontend languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience optimizing web pages and improving page speed
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Organizational skills and attention to details