Intermediate PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

GlobalRelay; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Intermediate PHP/WordPress Web Developer, where your creativity and technical skills will thrive. In this role, you will maintain and enhance corporate websites, collaborating closely with talented designers and product owners to deliver exceptional user experiences. This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic, inclusive environment that champions innovation and personal growth. With a strong emphasis on diversity and a flexible hybrid work model, you will be part of a culture that values your contributions and supports your career aspirations. Embrace the chance to make a real impact in a company that believes in your potential.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Mentoring and coaching

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with HTML5, CSS3, and PHP.
• Proficient in WordPress and content management systems.
• Experience with Git and unit testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement features for corporate and information service websites.
• Collaborate with designers to create accessible and responsive web applications.
• Optimize SEO and performance for public websites.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

PHP

WordPress

Git

AJAX

JSON

Sass/Less

Unit Testing

Agile Methodologies

Job description

Intermediate PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

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 a 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 product owners on user story generation and refinement
• Assist in attaining optimized and efficient, best in class performance on our public websites.
• Assist in improving 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 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
• 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).

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it’s flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.