Technical SEO & Web Performance Lead

Growth Resourcing

Umhlanga Rocks

On-site

ZAR 1,309,000 - 1,964,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Growth Resourcing is helping a UK-based B2B technology provider to appoint a highly technical SEO & Web Performance Specialist. You will own the website’s technical SEO, improve Core Web Vitals, and enhance organic search performance while working with an external development partner to implement changes.

You will diagnose, fix page speed, mobile performance, and scripts, and lead audits of crawling, indexing and rendering.

Qualifications

4+ years of technical SEO experience.
Strong understanding of how websites work technically.
Proven experience improving Core Web Vitals and website performance.
Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Solid understanding of crawling, indexing, and rendering.
Hands‑on experience with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse, and Chrome DevTools.
Experience diagnosing and resolving website performance issues.
Experience working directly with web developers.
Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
Ability to explain technical issues clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Own the technical SEO strategy and website performance.
Improve Core Web Vitals, LCP, INP and CLS.
Diagnose and optimise page speed, mobile performance, images, scripts and other website resources.
Assess the performance impact of third‑party scripts.
Conduct technical SEO audits and monitor crawling, indexing and rendering.
Manage site architecture, internal linking, redirects, canonicalisation, robots.txt and XML sitemaps.
Implement and validate structured data/schema.
Identify and resolve JavaScript and other technical issues affecting organic search performance.
Provide technical SEO input for website changes, redesigns and new development.
Use Google Search Console, Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools.
Set performance benchmarks and report measurable improvements.
Act as the technical SEO owner with external development partner.
Translate problems into actionable developer requirements.
Review solutions and verify issue resolution.