Web Developer

Role Overview

We are seeking a talented, creative, and detail-oriented Website Designer who can design, build, and maintain websites (mainly WordPress & Shopify) with custom design and visual polish. The candidate will work closely with clients, project managers, and developers to understand requirements, propose visual solutions, deliver designs, implement them, customize themes/plugins, and ensure high usability and visual appeal.

Key Responsibilities

The Website Designer will:

1. Design & Build Websites

o Create design mockups, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes according to UI/UX principles.

o Develop and integrate website designs into WordPress and Shopify themes, ensuring clean, responsive, mobile-friendly layout.

2. Customize Themes and Plugins

o Customize existing WordPress themes, write custom CSS, modify theme templates.

o Customize or extend plugins to provide required features or match client needs.

3. Graphic Design & Visual Assets

o Create graphics, banners, icons, images using tools such as Photoshop, Canva (or equivalent).

o Ensure consistency of visual branding across sitescolours, typography, imagery.

4. UI / UX Design

o Design user interfaces that are intuitive, accessible, and engaging.

o Conduct basic UX research: understanding target audience, user journeys, usability.

o Iteratively refine based on feedback and usability/testing.

5. Client Interaction & Requirement Gathering

o Attend client meetings to discuss design briefs, gather requirements, explain design choices.

o Translate clients business / functional goals into design deliverables.

6. Quality Assurance & Maintenance

o Test designs and implemented websites across different devices, browsers.

o Ensure sites are optimized (performance, speed, SEO basics, accessibility).

o Provide support as required (bug fixes, minor changes, updates).

Required Skills & Competencies

To excel in this role, candidate must possess:

Skill Area Details / Proficiency Level

WordPress-

Customizing Themes & Plugins-

Custom CSS-

Shopify-

UI / UX-

Graphic Designing Tools-

Requirements Understanding-

Client Meetings & Communication-

Ideal Qualifications & Personal Attributes

• Bachelors degree in Design, Computer Science, Multimedia, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).

• Portfolio of past website design work (WordPress, Shopify) demonstrating visual design, UI/UX and customization skills.

• Strong attention to detail, good aesthetic sense. • Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines.

• Problem-solving mindset; resourceful and able to work with constraints.

• Open to feedback and continuous learning.

• Good communication skills (English), both written and spoken.