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As a growing business we are always on the lookout for talented people seeking a career in web, digital media and creative production. Keep an eye on this page for current vacancies, and even if there’s nothing available right now, we would still love to see your CV. If you’re right for us, we’ll be in touch.
Company Benefits
Company Apple Mac
Company Pension
Free Parking
Plenty of Tea & Biscuits
PHP WordPress Developer
PHP WordPress Developer
We are currently seeking a technically proficient, self-motivated and ambitious PHP WordPress Developer to join the digital team within a well-established Leeds based multi-channel marketing agency.
This role will involve working on a variety of digital projects for our clients, including bespoke WordPress website/ecommerce builds, plugin development and bespoke API integrations.
The successful candidate will have experience developing themes and plugins for WordPress as well as in-depth knowledge of PHP and API development to build bespoke integrations with our in-house PIM and other third-party systems.
This is a exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team in moving this expanding division of the business forward into the future!
Duties and Responsibilities
- Review and understand functional and technical specification documents
- Make recommendations on the best technical solutions to meet our customer’s project briefs
- Setting up WordPress on our staging and production servers
- Build WordPress websites to agreed design briefs
- Develop WordPress plugins to agreed functional specifications
- Build bespoke web applications using MVC framework
- Develop integrations between our PIM system and other web platforms
- Deployment of WordPress between staging and production environments
- Resolving customer support requests
- Contribute to the on-going improvement of our team’s workflows and development practices
- Testing and optimisation of WordPress and web apps for speed and performance
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum 3 years commercial experience ideally in an agency
- WordPress plugin and theme development
- WordPress performance optimisation
- WordPress security best practices
- PHP and API driven development
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- SQL database design
- Understanding technical SEO best practices
- Understanding of web accessibility standards
- Laravel or similar MVC framework
- Foundation or similar front-end framework
- React, Vue.js or similar JavaScript framework
- Version control and experience with deployment tools such as Git
- Ability to estimate the time needed to complete various development tasks
- A flexible attitude with proven experience of working in a small team
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Knowledge of Linux, Apache and MySQL would be an advantage
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of Agile/Scum principals and best practices
- WP-CLI
- Amazon Web Services
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Ruby on Rails
Benefits
- Friendly Modern Office Environment
- Company MacBook
- Company Pension
- Free Parking
- Plenty of Tea and Biscuits
If you’d like to apply for this key role, please send your CV in the strictest confidence, along with salary expectation to:
[email protected]
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Salary: £Neg + benefits