Website Development Partner

Relationship: Independent Contractor / Ongoing Development Partner

Rates & Engagement: If you feel like this could be a good fit, we’d love to learn more about you, your rates, and how you typically structure contractor partnerships.

Partner With Well Dressed Walrus

Well Dressed Walrus is looking for an experienced Website Development Contractor to establish an ongoing partnership with our team.

We’re not simply looking for someone to complete a single project. We’re looking for a dependable development partner we can work with consistently—someone who can collaborate with our designers and team, take ownership of development work, solve problems, and help us deliver an exceptional experience to our clients.

Our ideal partner has extensive WordPress experience, strong technical troubleshooting skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively while independently managing the work entrusted to them.

The Kind of Work We’d Partner With You On

• Collaborating with our designers to turn provided designs, files, and direction into polished WordPress websites and pages.
• Building, updating, and converting responsive web pages that follow accessibility and ADA best practices.
• Building complex Gravity Forms utilizing conditional logic, dynamic population, and CAPTCHA/Turnstile integrations.
• Writing custom CSS to achieve specific design requirements and using Chrome DevTools for precise targeting and troubleshooting.
• Optimizing website content, including alt text, meta descriptions, and basic image editing and cropping.
• Assessing and troubleshooting plugin issues, website update requests, and other WordPress-related technical problems.
• Helping us solve the occasional unusual website problem that doesn’t fit neatly into a checklist.

What We’re Looking for in a Development Partner

We’re looking for someone who:

• Communicates clearly and reliably, both verbally and in writing.
• Can translate technical concepts into language our team and clients can understand.
• Is highly comfortable developing pages and managing content within WordPress.
• Has working knowledge of plugin management, caching, website backups, and general WordPress troubleshooting.
• Understands web accessibility and ADA best practices.
• Can take clear direction and then independently execute the work.
• Pays close attention to details and takes pride in delivering polished work.
• Is dependable with timelines, communication, and commitments.
• Operates with a True North moral compass and an uncompromising standard of data security and confidentiality.

Additional Experience We Value

It’s even better if you have:

• Extensive WordPress development experience, including building websites from scratch based on provided designs and established styles. (We’ll teach you the Well Dressed Walrus approach.)
• Strong HTML and CSS skills.
• Advanced experience building and managing Gravity Forms.
• A good eye for design, spacing, typography, and color.
• Experience with Toolset and Custom Post Types.
• Strong proficiency with Google Workspace.
• Experience working with cPanel and PHP.
• Experience with WordPress themes and builders such as Kadence, Enfold, Divi, or TagDiv Newspaper—or the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar tools.

Tools & Technologies We Work With

Depending on the project, our team regularly works with:

• WordPress
• Google Workspace
• Adobe XD
• 1Password
• Cloudflare
• SupportPal
• WHMCS
• cPanel
• Basecamp
• AI development tools including Gemini, Codex, and Claude Code

What a Great Partnership Looks Like

We’re looking for more than technical ability. The right development partner becomes someone our team can confidently hand work to and know it will be handled well.

That means communicating when something isn’t clear, identifying potential problems before they become bigger problems, meeting agreed-upon timelines, asking good questions, and taking ownership of the quality of the finished product.

We value long-term relationships and would love to establish an ongoing partnership with a developer who enjoys doing excellent work and wants to become a trusted extension of our team.

Interested in Partnering With Us?

If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for, we’d love to learn more about you, the type of development work you specialize in, and how you typically structure contractor partnerships.

Reach out and introduce yourself. Tell us a little about your WordPress experience, share examples of your work, and let us know what you’re looking for in a great agency partnership.

We are a Christ-centered company, guided by biblical principles and committed to honoring God in how we work and serve others.