WordPress/PHP Developer duties and responsibilities
About this role
You’ll be working with existing Laravel applications for our current clients – developing new features and extending existing ones. You’ll be creating custom WordPress plugins and extending the core functionality of WooCommerce to meet new customer requirements. You’ll be able to choose and investigate the most appropriate technologies for future problems. You’ll know a good user experience when you see one and will instinctively think about the best ways in which clients will be able to interact with the their application or maintain their content over time. We’re expecting you to have had at least three of years’ development experience in a WordPress and PHP environment – more would be better if you’re working on our larger projects (which we’d like you to). Qualifications are good, but experience counts too, so don’t be put off if you don’t have a degree but know Laravel, PHP, MySQL and WordPress inside out! We’d like you to show us some examples of your work too (but completely understand that once you turn a website over to a client it doesn’t remain in the state in which you delivered it to them!) We want you to help establish best practices and contribute to the development direction in which we move. Our flexible working and family-friendly policies mean there are opportunities to define your own hours and, to a certain extent, choose where (and when) you work. Want to work part-time? That’s ok. Want to work school-friendly hours? No problem. If you’ve got the skills we need and the determination to make it work, then we’ll be flexible around you. We can offer you a competitive salary, 24 days holiday every year, plus a day off on your birthday. Interested? Send us your CV and a covering letter and we’ll be in touch . WordPress/PHP Developer duties and responsibilities These are the things we'll expect you to do: Adding new features and functionality to existing websites. Meeting with clients (alongside our Digital Project Manager) to help scope new projects. Establishing and guiding the build of regular green-field sites (we have lots of these) – sometimes on your own, sometimes taking the lead with other associate developers. Building/editing plugins to cater for bespoke features required on client websites. Defining best working practices, including advising on (and implementing) source control measures. Testing and quality control. These are the things we'll expect you to have: Experience of building and maintaining sites in Laravel. Experience of writing custom WordPress plugins or modifying existing ones. Experience working with WooCommerce. Experience of building sites in WordPress without having to rely on page builder plugins. Good understanding of database technologies such as MySQL. Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery. Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications. Experience designing and developing responsive websites. Ability to convert comprehensive visual designs and wireframes into working HTML pages. Understanding of code-versioning and source control tools such as GIT. Get in touch If you think we can help with your next project, please drop us a line or call us. We’d love to meet with you to see how we could work together. Our offices in Stratton St Margaret are easy to reach with free parking right outside the door.
What this role is, and what else it is called
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