Senior Web Developer - Frontend & UI

**SUMMARY:** **** We are seeking a Senior Web Developer with a strong focus on building high-quality, user-facing web experiences. This role is one that is extremely hands-on with WordPress development and UI engineering, including custom themes, CMS-driven layouts, responsive design, accessibility, performance, and visual consistency across all digital properties. The ideal candidate serves as a bridge between the Digital Marketing and Architecture and Enablement teams, collaborating closely with graphic designers, content marketers, architects, and product stakeholders to deliver polished, production-ready, on-brand interfaces. This role primarily focuses on frontend development and CMS-driven web platforms and does not require backend ownership. **** **** **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:** **** - Design, develop, and maintain complex WordPress-based websites and responsive, user‑friendly web applications. - Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, and integrations, balancing custom development with strategic use of existing plugins. - Build intuitive and accessible user interfaces using modern front‑end frameworks, WordPress, HTML, and CSS. - Ensure all user interfaces adhere to established brand standards, design guidelines, UX/UI best practices, and visual identity. - Collaborate with digital marketing partners and designers to translate designs and campaigns into high‑quality implementations that meet goals and project deadlines. - Participate in marketing‑related planning and working sessions to support digital initiatives and ensure alignment. - Ensure application performance, security, reliability, and scalability, including plugin management, updates, optimization, and coordination with hosting and infrastructure teams. - Write clean, well‑documented, and testable code. - Participate in code and accessibility reviews and contribute to engineering best practices. - Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software defects. - Integrate WordPress and frontend components with internal and third-party APIs, forms, and marketing or analytics platforms. - Implement resilient UI patterns for handling API responses, loading states, and errors. - Collaborate with cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, and marketing. - Completes annual compliance courses. - Adheres specifically to all corporate policies and procedures. Also adheres to Federal and State regulations and laws; including, the Bank Secrecy Act and the Anti-Money Laundering Act. - Adheres to our Service Excellence standards and promotes their implementation with peers and associates they support. - Performs other duties as required. **** **GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS:** **Knowledge & Experience**: These specifications are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered essential to the satisfactory performance of this position. Individual abilities may result in some deviation from these guidelines. - Strong experience with web development technologies, including: - HTML, CSS, JavaScript / TypeScript - Modern front‑end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) - Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining WordPress-based websites, including custom themes, plugins, CMS configurations, and integrations. - Keen understanding of WordPress architecture, plugin ecosystems, content modeling, and CMS workflows in a marketing-driven environment. - Experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs (JSON-based). - Strong understanding of how backend systems impact frontend performance and behavior (no backend ownership required). - Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) - Understanding of web accessibility, performance optimization, and responsive design. - Strong problem‑solving and communication skills. - Experience partnering with digital marketing teams and graphic designers on user‑facing web initiatives (preferred). - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience - Experie…