WordPress Developer - Leading Digital Agency

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WordPress Developer - Leading Digital Agency

Manchester

Competitive Market Salary (DOE) + Awesome Benefits & Perks

++ Not everything below is essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge. We will happily talk to you about your natural strengths and also the areas that you are keen to improve. We want to take you on a wonderful journey and we're here to help you every step of the way... ++

We are a digital agency specialising in digital strategy and web software development and we are looking for an experienced WordPress Developer with a passion for digital to join us.

Founded in 2005, we are now firmly established as one of the leading digital innovation agencies in the country and were voted one of the UK’s top ten Future Leaders out of a field of over 500 creative businesses.

We have a talented team, a great culture, great clients, creates world-class work and has digital innovation at its core. We care greatly about both the quality and the craft of our work.

Culture and values:

We believe in: Happy staff | Creating world class work, on a world stage | Creating a family atmosphere | A strong focus on work life balance | Having a great environment that is definitely not corporate | An open door policy with the CEO.

What we offer:

+ A competitive salary based on experience.

+ Flexible working hours to avoid traffic or help with family duties.

+ 30 days paid holiday (22 + 8 UK national holidays).

+ Extra holidays for long service.

+ Pension contribution.

+ A top of the range MacBook Pro with a high-quality second monitor.

+ Personal development time to improve your individual skills in any area you choose.

+ Time dedicated to exploring new technology and ways of working.

+ Regular socials and bi-annual company away days.

+ Fast, dedicated and uncontended fibre connection.

+ Free parking.

+ Free secure storage for bicycles & motorbikes.

+ Shower for cyclists, runners and gym users.

+ Free tea, coffee and other treats.

+ Free eye tests.

+ Childcare voucher scheme to reduce childcare costs.

What we're looking for:

You’ll definitely…

+ Have at least three years’ agency experience.

+ Have worked with WordPress, developing your own themes and plugins.

+ Engage in architectural discussions, mentoring of mid and junior developers and driving engineering practices towards excellence.

+ Focus on modern engineering principles, code craftsmanship and automation.

+ Have a keen understanding of web technologies with practical experience of building applications using both PHP and JavaScript.

+ Be familiar with DevOps.

+ Act as an example to others in the team, so that they are confident we can do things the right way, rather than feeling pressured to cut corners.

+ Be a smart, motivated, focused person who enjoys producing amazing solutions.

It’d be nice if you…

+ Have created sites using Symfony 2+, or other modern frameworks (such as Laravel).

+ Have worked with CI and deployment tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Puppet or similar.

+ Have experience working with third-party plugins, such as ACF.

+ Are experienced with Twig, Composer, Git, Doctrine, SASS, jQuery.

+ Are experienced with the modern JavaScript ecosystem, tools and best practices.

+ Have used Amazon Web Services to deploy a high traffic web platform.

What you'll be doing:

+ You will have the opportunity to contribute to the planning and pre-production phases of projects.

+ You will contribute to architectural design, and produce project specifications, including estimations and task breakdowns.

+ Developing websites and applications.

+ Be responsible for driving the day-to-day technical decision-making process on projects, evolving systems as requirements change over time.

+ Leading your project team.

+ Drive best practice by improving and driving our software engineering practices such as refactoring, code reviews and automated testing.

+ Work to improve our processes to ensure that we work in the best possible way.

Interested? Just Apply Below...

...But first a little formality. By applying you Explicitly Consent to us processing & passing your application to our client for review for this vacancy only. If your skills match the role you will hear back from us within 2 business days. If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.