Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin used originally for contact forms, and has continued to grow into a solution that allows site owners to create forms to collect information, create custom workflows, and build ecommerce solutions. Gravity Forms can be used for forms, WordPress post creation, calculators, accepting online payments, employment applications, and much more. Gravity Forms is a software solution built by the team at Rocketgenius.

Our team is searching for a Front-end Developer to help build and maintain our various website properties, develop new templates for our site(s), collaborate with team members, outside partners, and guest contributors to hit deadlines, build unique solutions, and provide value to new users and current customers when navigating our front-facing web properties.

Relocation is not necessary, as we consider your geographic location a non-issue, and you will work remote from your location (wherever that may be). Hours are flexible based on your time zone requirements.


What You’ll Do:

  • Ship good code - You are a pragmatic developer who has years of experience with CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP, and WordPress. You are familiar with agile web development and understand the concept of "done done." You write code that other developers and teammates can easily use, maintain, and extend.
  • Collaborate with the Marketing Team - Your role will support the Marketing team (content writers, designer, Creative Director, and others) as they work to build out new functionality on our website properties.
  • Build and own our websites - Your work will be highly focused on continuing to add and build functionality on our front-facing website properties, as the entrance to Gravity Forms for millions of users, you'll help to maintain gravityforms.com. You will also help build and maintain docs.gravityforms.com and other website properties we have up our sleeves. You will also continue to maintain the website platforms into the future. Building with scalability, reliability, and security in mind. You are experienced in using observability tools to diagnose issues and keep our web services healthy and reliable.
  • Work cross-teams - You'll partner with design, marketing, product, and other leadership stakeholders to develop functionality and user experience for our websites.
  • Collaborate with Trust - You'll build trust and credibility through actions and results; getting buy-in from your fellow developers is key to this role’s success.

The Work Entails:

  • Reporting to our Creative Director your responsibility will be to build and maintain Gravity Forms website properties.
  • Collaborating with the Design and Marketing teams to brainstorm solutions to website and user experience challenges.
  • Prototyping and iterating on features alongside other team members; designers, developers, product dev, and QA.
  • Writing readable, secure, accessible, testable, standards-compliant code.
  • Keeping your teammates informed of your tasks and progress in weekly Zoom video calls, Slack, and project management tools.
  • Fixing bugs and collaborating with other team members to test issues.
  • Giving clear but kind feedback when reviewing other PR code.
  • Helping to modernize the codebase while maintaining our commitment to accessibility.
  • Assisting the support team with troubleshooting on Docs site.

Is This You?

  • Your passion is to create remarkable code and build websites that are a pleasure to use.
  • After years of writing code, it's still your idea of fun. It's maybe even what you'd be doing if you didn't have to work.
  • You have a super solid grasp of the WordPress codebase, understand its quirks and faults but you love it anyway and contribute when you can.
  • You've internalized the WordPress code standards, but you use linters because you know nobody is perfect.
  • You have a strong knowledge and working experience with Javascript libraries/frameworks (JQuery, ReactJS, etc.).
  • You have a responsibility to write accessible and inclusive code and you strongly believe that accessibility is about more than just regulatory compliance.
  • You're comfortable with all the layers of technologies that are required to build and run a modern complex WordPress website (NPM packages and all!). However, you know where your strengths lie, and you still get excited by the idea of learning whatever comes next.
  • You have experience working with CSS preprocessors (LESS, SASS, etc.).
  • You have experience with version control systems (Git using Github).
  • You're very comfortable writing and speaking in English with colleagues and customers.

Bonus Points:

  • You've already figured out solutions to the challenges of remote working.
  • You already have some (or A LOT of) experience with Gravity Forms.
  • Familiarity with the latest front-end technologies and frameworks.
  • Experience building another high-profile WordPress theme or plugin.
  • Fluent in multiple languages.

Working at Rocketgenius:

  • Report to the Creative Director
  • Work from anywhere
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Benefits package paid for by Rocketgenius (Health, Dental, Vision)
  • IRA Plan with Company matched contributions

Your first 1-4 months on the job:

We have a need to finish and wrap up a fully refreshed version of our front-facing website properties. Much of your initial work will be to help finish the new Gravity Forms site and Docs site, in collaboration with our Marketing team. You’ll work with our Creative Director and Ops team to create a plan to finish the new websites, create a final schedule with actionable deadlines.

Within the new version of our websites, we want to create engaging user experiences across the board: this will include building out reusable and modular content sections, while also collaborating with our design team to create page and element animations and flourishes that enrich the UX. As a key member of the team during this work, you will be able to juggle multiple priorities and be able to think outside the box when given designs to implement or tasks to complete. You will translate design documents (from Figma or Sketch) into HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (utilizing jQuery, React, or Vue), and work with both the Marketing team to make websites functional and match the design and user experience expectations.

As part of bringing you up to speed, you will also audit Gravity Forms theme build itself, looking for new opportunities, areas of improvement, and more efficient ways that the websites can be built.


On a random day, 6 months into the role:

You might have a call with the Creative Director to go over next month’s To-Dos on our latest website updates that are on the docket. You will work with our Marketing team to roll out new landing page templates that the team can use for marketing initiatives. You will collaborate on the next push around our “learning Gravity Forms” initiatives, or our swag shop and ecommerce goals.


The Application Process:

  • A brief series of emails and or Slack chats.
  • Short video calls with key members of the organization.
  • We will offer you the option of talking directly to a member on the team so you can get another perspective of what it’s like working with us.
  • A paid trial project lasting between 2-8 weeks, depending on your availability, which will give us the opportunity to see what it’s like working together.
  • A formal offer.

Rocketgenius is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.