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Senior WordPress Developer

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior WordPress Developer to join our busy, award-winning team.

Category: Marketing Vacancies
Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £35K - £45K

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a Sunday Times ‘Best Place to Work’ full-service marketing agency, right in the heart of Southbourne. You’ll get to work in a fun, energetic and collaborative environment where everyone is valued and celebrated for their unique contribution. And with a fantastic package of enhanced benefits, you’ll get to strike the work-life balance that’s right for you.

What you'll do...

We build all our digital solutions from the ground up, utilising WordPress Gutenberg flexible content with Advanced Custom Fields, delivering a streamlined and tailored product for our clients. Your core responsibilities will be working on premium WordPress business websites and WooCommerce e-commerce solutions. You’ll be involved in the early stages of the project, from discovery through to completion and continuous improvement, helping to define and positively influence the project’s requirements, scope and success.

Your skills & experience...

8+ years experience working with WordPress, Woocommerce or other ecommerce platforms
Educated to degree level
Competent in best practice coding standards and delivering sustainable, high-performing and accessible digital products
Expert knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript and JS libraries such as jQuery
Deep experience with the Gutenberg editor
Confident with version control, build tools, third-party integrations and managing sites via dedicated hosting platforms
Confident in creating custom functionality within custom theme and plugin development
Experience using Composer, Gulp and Grunt
Understanding and experience of the software development lifecycle
Experience creating technical specifications and process flow diagrams to help define the development process
Understanding of how to write maintainable code and the importance of testing
Experience developing custom integrations using 3rd party APIs
Experience creating custom WordPress Plugins
Experience working with complex product data, taxonomy and ecommerce store configuration
Excellent English language communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate effectively with a technical and non-technical audience
Understanding of User Experience design
Experience using GIT
Experience with project management tools
Comfortable with collaborative tools such as Google Docs

About you…

Able to lead by example and guide the development team
Keen to learn and increase your knowledge
Self-motivated and able to work alone or as part of a team
A strong problem-solver
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
A passion for delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations
Creativity, resourcefulness and a proactive attitude
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail

Some of the amazing things you’ll get…

32 days holiday (including Christmas closure and Bank holidays)
An extra day off to celebrate your birthday!
Flexible working
A great work-life balance
Enhanced contributory pension* (up to 5%)
Private medical insurance with Vitality (plus opportunity to add your family)*
Opportunity to develop and grow your skills in an expert team
Continuing Personal Development (CPD)
Excellent location on Southbourne high street, close to beach
Free fresh fruit every day (and biscuits!)
Regular team socials and Run Club!
*After successful completion of probation

Pokesdown train station is a 15 minute walk from our office, which makes commuting easy from Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton and Winchester. We are open to part-time, flexible working and hybrid-working.