PHP / WordPress Developer

PHP / WordPress Developer – Digital / Law Firm – London

£300 per day

Duration: 3-6months

URGENT and Immediate Start Required

You will be responsible for:

• Implementing new features and functionality for current WordPress sites.
• Launching new WordPress sites on our infrastructure. Ensuring high-performance and availability by managing all technical aspects of the backend and services.
• Maintaining and managing our WordPress installations to ensure they are secure and efficient.
• Leading a small but growing team of developers, reviewing their work, supporting their professional development and outlining the architecture and structure of bigger projects
• The overall output speed and quality of the development team
• Taking business requirements and turning these into technical specifications for other developers
• Working with business stakeholders to help them understand the complexity of tasks and suggesting practical solutions which meet the business’ needs

Your skills and experience:

• Plenty of WordPress experience ideally across a variety of sites and businesses
• Strong knowledge of PHP, SQL and the WordPress core
• Experienced in writing custom themes, plugins, JS, and CSS rather than relying on existing frameworks etc.
• Experienced in managing other developers and supporting them to develop their skills
• An eye for detail with pixel-perfect implementation of designs
• Excellent at identifying edge cases and potential issues with implementation and good at considering the user’s perspective
• Able to accurately estimate the time required to develop and test tasks and to assess and advise on estimates made by other team members
• Excellent spoken and written English

Good to have:

• Accustomed to using Agile development
• Experience in using version control services such as Github
• A basic understanding of SEO and the considerations needed when developing sites
• Experience of multilingual WordPress sites
• Have a good understanding of Web Accessibility and speed optimization

Please do send the most up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com