WordPress Developer - Remote Working

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen within a field leading client of ours in the healthcare sector, currently looking to add a WordPress Developer to their existing team.

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You will love this role if you:

• Are passionate about architecting, building and maintaining WordPress applications

• Value collaboration and enjoy working closely with developers, project managers, QA professionals and digital designers

• Get excited about using code to transform designs into appealing and effective user interfaces

• Want to work on a variety of different projects and get the chance to try out new technologies

• Have an interest in the latest WordPress features and how you could use them in a project

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You will be a success if you:

• Have a strong experience of WordPress applications and PHP back-end development

• Have a good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

• Have experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications

• Have knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)

• Can work with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial.

• Are good at problem-solving, and can use your initiative to find creative solutions to coding problems

• Can thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and adapt to different priorities and deadlines

• Can work independently and as part of a team to overcome challenges

• Are passionate about learning and improving your technical skills across a range of web technologies

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As part of the Digital team, you’ll be responsible for the following activities:

• Deliver WordPress development for a variety of web projects across the group

• Contribute quality code for the project, including via peer review of others

• Help scope and define functionality, including identifying areas where the project could benefit from additional features

• Follow development processes and style guides, and help shape these as the team grows

• Identify code or concepts that can be re-used or re-purposed for other projects

• Ensure that your projects are delivered to the requirements and on the agreed timeline

• Ensure that your code reflects designs to a high quality

• Offer technical advice and guidance to colleagues from other departments, and provide consultancy backup to Head of Digital

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What you’ll bring:

• Development of new features and functionality on the WordPress platform

• Establishing and guiding the solution’s architecture

• Ensuring high-performance and availability and managing all technical aspects of the CMS

• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme or plugin

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, hold strong project management skills and prioritise with a MoSCoW approach

• Enthusiasm and a passion for building great user interfaces

• The ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and tools

• It would also be beneficial to have a good understanding of other CMSs and frameworks (such as Laravel, Craft CMS, Django etc.)

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This really is an excellent chance to join a global, field leading company that can offer a stable working environment with opportunities for career progression. For more information and a full job description, please contact Ben Turner at RBW Consulting.

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Salary: £45,000 Per annum + Benefits