Senior WordPress Developer

We’re looking for a Senior WordPress Developer who is passionate about building brilliant WordPress websites and human focused experiences on the web. You’ll be an experienced developer who loves the buzz of agency life and enjoys collaborating on a wide range of projects with a team as passionate as you are about websites that put people and planet first. This is an opportunity to join our open-minded and creatively-curious team, working together to deliver exciting, innovative, accessible, and sustainable websites.

The majority of the time you’ll be working to deliver, maintain, and improve world-leading sustainable WordPress websites for the mission aligned organisations we work with. You’ll be expected to estimate technical solutions but primarily you will be in and around the code.

Responsibilities

• Scoping, estimating, and producing acceptance criteria for development tasks.
• Upholding standards for development work across the team.
• Managing development tasks and workflow in Jira.
• Supporting tech leads with management and evolution of the development team.

Extensive WordPress expertise You have strong foundational PHP knowledge with several years’ experience developing using WordPress theme templating and other core functionality. You work regularly with industry-standard plugins and are comfortable with the Gutenberg editor. You’re familiar with WP-CLI and other tools to help administer, migrate, and manage sites.

On the frontend, you have a rock-solid understanding of HTML, you build using modern CSS layout techniques, and have a healthy sprinkling of vanilla JS expertise.

Complimentary development experience You’re confident with local development, version control, build tools, third-party integrations, and managing sites via hosting platforms. You have experience scoping technical requirements, clearly estimating time for delivering work, and supporting a wider team with development-related considerations.

A positive perfectionist mindset You want sites to be great in all aspects, whether that’s performance, accessibility, sustainability, or IA, UX and design, but you’re confident in balancing this with a realistic approach to delivering projects successfully, and you have a thirst for understanding the technical aspects of ensuring standards are met.

Empathetic working approach You can balance your technical expertise with an appreciation for multiple perspectives and objectives, and you can clearly communicate complicated concepts to a variety of audiences. You enjoy helping others succeed and exploring solutions with them.

Culture Our team is encouraged to bring their complete selves to work and this means being part of a culture of acceptance.

Generally you’ll be working closely with our Tech Leads and the other developers within our team, as well as the wider agency and the organisations we partner with, bringing technical expertise to a wide range of conversations.

The organisations you’d be working with sit firmly within the purpose driven space and we have a robust to ensure this remains in place. This could be in any sector from charity through to commercial but they all share our values and want to improve the lives of people and lessen the impact we are having on the planet. It’s really important that people align to who they work with.