Digital Developer

Mitchell & Stones; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitchell & Stones, a UK-based digital marketing agency, is seeking a Digital Developer to join the Cape Town team. The role focuses on turning design concepts into deployed websites using WordPress with an ACF block theme system, while managing CI/CD from GitHub to Cloudways.

You’ll also engage with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate builds and contribute to broader technical work within the agency.

Qualifications

• Good communication and the ability to work directly with a small, fast-moving team.
• Comfortable working with modern AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflow.
• Interest in broader technical ownership beyond core web development.

Responsibilities

• Website Development (core focus) and turning design concepts into fully built, working websites.
• Build and maintain WordPress sites using ACF block theme system.
• Manage build pipeline from GitHub to deployment on Cloudways.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Curiosity

Tools

WordPress

ACF

GitHub

Cursor

Google Antigravity

Job description

Mitchell & Stones is looking for a Digital Developer to join our team in Cape Town. This is a hands‑on development role built around our AI‑assisted website pipeline, with room to grow into broader technical work across the agency as you settle in.

You’ll spend most of your time turning design concepts into properly built, deployed websites for our clients, using a modern, tool‑assisted development workflow. Alongside that, you’ll pick up wider technical tasks: tracking setup, integrations, and troubleshooting, working directly with our Managing Director to take technical load off the business as a whole.

This is a junior‑to‑mid role. We’re less interested in years of experience and more interested in someone who’s genuinely comfortable working with modern AI‑assisted development tools, capable of directing and refining tool‑generated code rather than just typing from a blank file, and who wants a role that grows beyond pure web development over time.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Website Development (core focus)
• Take design concepts and convert them into fully built, working websites
• Build and maintain WordPress sites using our ACF block theme system, following our design‑to‑code workflow
• Manage the build pipeline from GitHub through to deployment on Cloudways
• Handle responsive design, mobile refinement, and cross‑device testing
• Set up and test contact forms, integrations, and standard site functionality (payment gateways, booking systems, CRM connections)
• Carry out quality control on your own builds and support QC on others’ work before client sign-off
• Work with modern AI‑assisted coding tools day to day, using them to accelerate build speed while applying your own judgement to catch and fix what they get wrong

Technical Support & Growth Areas

• Support the setup and troubleshooting of Google Tag Manager, tracking pixels, and analytics across client and internal sites
• Assist with standard platform integrations as they come up
• Act as a point of technical troubleshooting for the wider team on day‑to‑day issues
• Take on increasing ownership of technical decisions and infrastructure work as you build familiarity with our systems and clients

This second area starts small and grows. We don’t expect you to walk in the door doing this at full capacity, it’s a deliberate part of how the role develops.

What We’re Looking For

• Genuine comfort using modern AI‑assisted coding and design tools as part of your everyday workflow, not as an occasional shortcut
• An eye for when something looks or behaves wrong, and the initiative to fix it rather than ship it as‑is
• Curiosity about the wider technical picture beyond just writing code (tracking, integrations, how systems connect)
• Good communication and the ability to work directly with a small, fast‑moving team

Nice to have:

• Experience with Git/GitHub in a team workflow
• Familiarity with ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) or similar WordPress theme frameworks
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development environments such as Cursor or Google Antigravity
• Experience working in or with a marketing or digital agency

We’re far more interested in how you think and problem‑solve than in ticking every box above. If you’re strong on the essentials and curious about the rest, we want to hear from you.

Why This Role

• Direct exposure to a genuinely modern development workflow, not legacy dev practices
• Clear growth path from web development into broader technical ownership across the agency
• Work directly with the Managing Director rather than being buried in a large dev team
• Cape Town based team with hands‑on, fast‑paced client work across the UK, Europe, and the US
• Mitchell & Stones is a digital marketing agency based in the UK, working with B2B and SME clients across SEO, paid media, social, design, web, and AI search.