Web Developer - American Immigration Council

The American Immigration Council works to create a more welcoming and fair immigration system. Through litigation, research, and programs that expand access to legal assistance, the Council helps ensure immigrants are embraced, communities are enriched, and justice prevails for all.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Web Developer to serve as the in-house technical owner of our WordPress properties. This is a hands-on build-and-maintain role: you'll develop new page templates and blocks, extend and troubleshoot our custom theme and plugins, keep our sites patched and healthy, and partner with our external development agency on hosting and larger projects.

You'll work closely with colleagues across Marketing & Communications, Research, Legal, and Programs who bring you the content and campaigns that need to ship. You'll also coordinate with two external partners: a development agency that handles hosting and maintenance, and a consultant who maintains our custom payment system for J-1 visa sponsorship services.

The ideal candidate is comfortable owning a codebase, communicating clearly with non-technical stakeholders, and learning quickly in a small team where you'll be the primary technical voice in the room. This role is a strong fit for a developer with roughly 4-6 years of experience who wants meaningful ownership and room to grow.

What You'll Do

Theme and Front-End Development (~40%)

• Build and maintain custom WordPress themes, page templates, and reusable components
• Develop Gutenberg blocks and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) configurations that give content editors flexible, well-guarded building blocks
• Write clean, accessible, responsive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that meets WCAG 2.1 AA standards
• Translate designs and content requirements into working pages, and troubleshoot layout and rendering issues across browsers and devices

Plugin Development and Back-End Work (~25%)

• Extend WordPress through custom plugins and functionality: custom post types, taxonomies, admin interfaces, REST endpoints, and third-party API integrations
• Maintain and debug existing custom code
• Write and optimize PHP with attention to security, performance, and maintainability

Site Maintenance and Platform Health (~20%)

• Own the WordPress core, theme, and plugin update cycle for multiple WordPress sites: test in staging, resolve conflicts, and deploy safely
• Monitor site performance, uptime, and errors; diagnose and resolve issues as they arise
• Apply security best practices and respond to vulnerability disclosures promptly
• Manage local, staging, and production environments and use version control and CI/CD workflows for all deployments