Intermediate PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

GlobalRelay; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Intermediate Web Developer to join a dynamic team in London. This role offers the chance to enhance the corporate and information service websites while collaborating closely with marketing and design teams. You will work on exciting projects, employing your skills in JavaScript, HTML5, and PHP, while ensuring optimal performance and usability. This innovative firm values clean, well-tested code and encourages developers to explore new technologies. If you are passionate about creating exceptional web experiences and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ Jahre Erfahrung in JavaScript-Entwicklung mit UI-Frameworks.
• 3+ Jahre Erfahrung mit HTML5 und CSS3, sowie PHP-Kenntnisse.

Responsibilities

• Wartung und Implementierung neuer Funktionen für Unternehmenswebsites.
• Zusammenarbeit mit Designern zur Umsetzung von Mock-ups in funktionierende Anwendungen.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

PHP

Git

Content Management Systems

SEO Optimization

Unit Testing

Responsive Design

Agile Methodologies

Tools

WordPress

Sass/Less

AJAX

JSON

Node

Job description

Your Role:

The Intermediate Web Developer is a member of a small, highly focused team, responsible for maintaining and improving the Global Relay corporate website including the information service website. This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best developers in London and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking and autonomy. We encourage our developers to think beyond a single component to build complete system solutions. Challenge yourself by learning new technologies, and apply your skills across our different projects and application domains. If you are committed to code that is clean, well-tested, well-reviewed, performant and secure then you’ll fit in around here. You will be working very closely with the marketing & design teams who will provide you the product requirements.

Your Job:

• Work as a part of an cross-functional and geo-located team to maintain & implement new features of the corporate and information service websites
• Write unit and integration tests for your code
• Collaborate with UI & interaction designers to translate mock-ups into a functioning web application that is accessible and responsive with exceptional usability
• Collaborate with testers in development of test cases for JavaScript code and in some cases developing test cases to address accessibility and responsive usability
• Collaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinement
• Assist attain optimised and efficient, and best in class performance on our public websites.
• Assist improve SEO, ensuring high performance of the sites across multiple regions.
• Develop the Content Management System to create easily usable systems for distributed authors

About You:

• Required Experience:
• Understanding of HTTP request and response types
• Minimum 2 years of JavaScript development either vanilla and/or using one or more UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, JQuery, etc)
• Understanding of HTTP requests and responses
• Minimum 3 years of experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• Minimum 2 years of experience with PHP
• Experience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPress
• Awareness of design patterns and PHP inheritance
• Related web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON
• Experience with git version control
• Experience with any of the following is a nice to have:
• Experience of using and creating Gutenberg Blocks
• Experience development using and awareness of Node task runners/pre-processors
• Awareness of coding standards and principles like dependency inversion (SOLID etc).
• Web Service API integration
• Experience with TDD environment (Test Driven development)
• Unit testing with PHPUnit and/or a JS test framework eg Mocha, Jasmine/Jest, React Test
• Worked in an agile environment (Epics, User Stories, Tasks).