Position
PHP WordPress Developer
Salary
£30k+ dependant on experience and additional skills
Overview
We are looking for a talented WordPress and software developer to join our dynamic and rapidly growing Digital Services team. You will have at least 3 years commercial experience and be able to demonstrate a wide variety of development work within your professional portfolio.
As a WordPress and software developer you’ll work as a core part of the Gambit Nash team to deliver digital solutions for our clients, and our own products and services. You’ll play a key role in assisting with briefs, concept development, and turning these into workable new web based and software solutions.
You will work across the full suite of digital activity, so you need to be competent in coding using PHP 8.4, HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript as a core skillset, and be able to create websites compatible with all browsers, platforms and responsive to the full range of mobile devices. You’ll work alongside the team to implement, execute and enhance work created and will be able to test work to ensure excellent user experience.
With WordPress at the core of the role, day-to-day activities will include the upkeep and maintenance of existing wordpress sites, as well as scoping, development and delivery of new wordpress sites, including bespoke plugins, themes, and integrations ranging from small business brochure sites to 100k+ SKU WooCommerce sites for Gambit Nash and our clients.
We’ll need you to be an expert in WordPress and be able to manage projects from concept through to go live. Additional technical skills you’ll understand include; Git, JQuery, Ajax, and MySQL / Maria databases.
With a team focus on secure software development, you will follow best practices to ensure that both new and existing code is secure and maintainable, following best practices for secure design, secure coding, security testing, and vulnerability management.
Key skills a successful applicant must demonstrate
- A deep understanding and knowledge of WordPress from theme and plugin development
- Core skill set of PHP, HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript with a demonstrable track record of systems delivery in this stack.
- Comfortable using version control (git) collaboratively, following branch strategies and pull-request based change management workflows.
- Understanding of the importance of Information Security and best practices for developing secure applications and websites.
- Familiarity with Scrum, Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
- Sub-set of skills and appreciation for JQuery and Ajax.
- Some exposure to working with SQL, MySQL / Maria databases.
- In depth knowledge of various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge), their quirks and how to overcome them in the delivery of websites and online software solutions.
- Demonstrate a core belief in outstanding user experience and interaction design for the benefit of the end user.
- The desire and drive to produce the very best work possible, and pragmatic enough to know that deadlines must be met.
- Experience of working in a fast paced digital agency environment servicing multiple clients and working to tight deadlines.
- Excellent problem solving skills to analyse information appropriately and find best solutions taking a balanced view to reach logical conclusions and make relevant decisions.
- Ability to work on multiple development work streams concurrently both under your own initiative and part of a development team
- You must be self-motivated, positive, professional and above all a great communicator with a flexible and adaptable attitude to your work.
- Additional skills that would prove helpful
- Experience of working with APIs to link back end systems to web platforms
- Experience of CloudFlare or a similar CDN would be a distinct advantage
- Knowledge of or experience of working in the Laravel framework and/or Vuejs would be a huge bonus, but not required.
- An awareness of information security protocols and good practice relating to secure code development.
- An impressive public GitHub profile would help us to get a better view of what you are all about.
- An understanding of social media and the role Web Developers can play in enhancing social media activity would be extremely beneficial, as would an ability to measure and track the performance of activity you’re working on (e.g. Webstats, analytics etc.).
- Comfortable occasionally visiting clients and working with on-site client teams during large projects.
- Happy to work on a company-issued MacBook Pro using supplied tools and software, aligned with the rest of the development team.
Additional skills
As the wider team also works with other web technologies, the following skills are desirable but not a requirement for this role – the ideal candidate will be willing to learn and adapt as requirements and projects necessitate:
- Composer
- Laravel framework
- Vue.js 3
- React
- Typescript
- NPM / Yarn
- Working with REST APIs
- Linux server knowledge (LAMP / LEMP stack)
- Working with Figma to implement designs
- Design skills
Benefits
- Regular bonuses
- Company Pension Scheme
- Flexible working hours
- 25 Days minimum paid holiday + Bank Holidays.
- Hybrid working
- Office Snacks, Tea & Coffee Provided.
- Office Pool Table & Car Parking Space.
- Use cutting edge web and server technologies.
- Work with great hardware and tools.
- Be part of a Small, Friendly team of all ages.
- No specific dress code.
- Company nights out!