Senior WordPress/PHP Developer & Tech Lead

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Justice Digital, Data and Science is recruiting a Senior WordPress/PHP Developer to join the Website Builder Platform Team. The role aligns with the Senior Developer specification from the Government Digital and Data Framework, and you will mentor peers while contributing to cross-team projects.

Expect to work across WordPress themes/plugins, modern CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and cloud-native services on AWS.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate proven experience of delivering large and complex software solutions.
• Building and maintaining WordPress themes and plugins.
• Apply modern development and deployment techniques to your work, including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Champion software maintenance, clean code, coding standards and practices that make change and consistency easier.
• Write automated tests to continuously validate your work.
• Work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, demonstrating a commitment to agile software development and knowledge sharing.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard.
• Solve problems in a systematic way.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with peers.
• Play an active role in the engineering community and culture.
• Work with other developers on the tech stack and learn new technologies and systems.
• Be open to transitioning between teams or departments to learn different technologies or take on more responsibility.

Skills

WordPress/PHP

React JS

CSS/HTML

WordPress themes/plugins

Full Site Editor

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Tools

WordPress

React JS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Justice Digital, Data and Science is recruiting a Senior WordPress/PHP Developer to join the Website Builder Platform Team. The role aligns with the Senior Developer specification from the Government Digital and Data Framework, and you will mentor peers while contributing to cross-team projects.

Expect to work across WordPress themes/plugins, modern CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and cloud-native services on AWS.