Wordpress and Social Media Summer Intern (Dallas)

Wordpress and Social Media Summer Internship
Dallas, TX
Monday to Friday
Paid Internship | Build Your Portfolio | Real-World Experience

Position Overview:
We are seeking a

WordPress Web Developer

to support the redesign, development, and maintenance of the company’s WordPress website and digital platforms. The role involves improving website functionality, performance, and user experience while also helping strengthen the company’s online presence through social media platforms such as

Instagram, X, Facebook, and others . The ideal candidate should be comfortable with website customization, content updates, branding, and digital engagement initiatives, while collaborating with team members on broader marketing and business goals.

Core Responsibilities
Website Development:

Redesign, develop, and maintain the company’s WordPress website with responsive, user-friendly, and visually compelling interfaces optimized for desktop and mobile platforms. Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and PHP for WordPress is necessary.
Social Media & Digital Marketing : Manage and grow the company’s presence across Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other platforms through content creation, branding, SEO, analytics, and digital marketing initiatives aimed at strengthening the company’s online presence.

Key Specializations
WordPress Development & Customization:

Build custom WordPress themes, child themes, and plugins tailored to business requirements. Develop Gutenberg blocks and templates to enhance content management and site flexibility. Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot existing WordPress sites and applications.
Performance & Optimization:

Optimize websites for speed, scalability, and responsiveness. Implement caching, database optimization, code minification, lazy loading, and other performance best practices. Ensure SEO-friendly website structures and accessibility compliance (WCAG).
Security & Maintenance:

Apply best practices for website security, including SSL, authentication, secure plugin use, and vulnerability mitigation. Monitor for malware, hacks, and other security threats; implement backup and disaster recovery plans. Maintain WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates without disrupting site functionality.
Continuous Learning & Innovation:

Stay up-to-date with the latest WordPress releases, plugins, and industry trends. Research and recommend new tools, frameworks, and approaches for efficiency and innovation. Evaluate emerging technologies such as Progressive Web Apps (PWA), headless WordPress, and cloud hosting solutions.

Required Qualifications & Skills
Education:

Graduated/pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Required Skills:

Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and PHP for WordPress core, themes, and plugin development; Familiarity with social media branding; Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Skills:

PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, and React, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, REST APIs, GraphQL, and headless CMS implementations; Git/version control, local development environments (Docker, MAMP, XAMPP), and CI/CD pipelines.

About Company:

Who we are!

At 4Ci our mission is to build long term relationships, based on trust, integrity, and knowledge with all our employees and business affiliates. 4Ci has been in business for 20 years and has employees working on mission critical projects nationwide. We provide computer programming, testing, and system design services to develop and maintain multi-year, multi-million-dollar mission critical applications for the US Government. Examples of such applications are Medicaid MMIS systems, Health Insurance Exchange, Child Support, Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance. We hire people that have desire, aptitude, and attitude to work with our clients such as big 3 consulting firms and US State Government and others.
While employed with us you get hands on experience with very large-scale mission critical applications that use latest in technology trends and software tools. We invest in training our resources and retool their expertise to meet our project needs.
More importantly our employees have a well-defined social and business purpose to help our clients deliver social and welfare benefits to millions of needs families by use of technology and knowledge.

What we do!

We partner with big 3 consulting firms to design, develop, and maintain complex, heterogeneous, and client facing web-based automation systems that deliver social and welfare benefits to millions of families, nationwide. To develop such highly complex web applications we need professionals with broad range of experience and skills ranging from subject matter experts, computer programmers, project managers, tester, systems analysts and others. We invest in training our employees and retool their expertise to meet our project needs.
4 Consulting Inc. offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. 4Ci is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. 4Ci complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
40 hours per week. M-F. Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Contact person:
Arjun Anand
arjun@fourci.com

Work Address:

10440 N Central Expy #643, Dallas, TX 75231