Intermediate PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

Global Relay

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

10 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Intermediate

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

JavaScript

PHP

AJAX

HTML5

Automation of Tests

Unit Testing

CSS

Software Design Patterns

Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP)

JSON

jQuery

Node.js

Preprocessor

Web Applications

Web Services

WordPress

Test Driven Development

React

PHPUnit

GIT

Vue.js

SASS

Angular

Integration Tests

Web Technologies

Mocha

Software Version Control

Jasmine

Job description

The Intermediate Web Developer is a member of a small, highly focused team, responsible for maintaining and improving the Global Relay corporate website including the information service website. This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best developers in London and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking and autonomy. We encourage our developers to think beyond a single component to build complete system solutions. Challenge yourself by learning new technologies, and apply your skills across our different projects and application domains. If you are committed to code that is clean, well-tested, well-reviewed, performant and secure then you'll fit in around here. You will be working very closely with the marketing&design teams who will provide you the product requirements.

Your responsibilities:

Work as a part of an cross-functional and geo-located team to maintain & implement new features of the corporate and information service websites
Write unit and integration tests for your code
Collaborate with UI & interaction designers to translate mock-ups into a functioning web application that is accessible and responsive with exceptional usability
Collaborate with testers in development of test cases for JavaScript code and in some cases developing test cases to address accessibility and responsive usability
Collaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinement
Assist attain optimised and efficient, and best in class performance on our public websites.
Assist improve SEO, ensuring high performance of the sites across multiple regions.
Develop the Content Management System to create easily usable systems for distributed authors

Requirements

Understanding of HTTP request and response types
Minimum 2 years of JavaScript development either vanilla and/or using one or more UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, JQuery, etc)
Understanding of HTTP requests and responses
Minimum 3 years of experience with HTML5 and CSS3
Minimum 2 years of experience with PHP
Experience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPress
Awareness of design patterns and PHP inheritance
Related web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON
Experience with git version control

Experience with any of the following is a nice to have:

Experience of using and creating Gutenberg Blocks
Experience development using and awareness of Node task runners/pre-processors
Awareness of coding standards and principles like dependency inversion (SOLID etc).
Web Service API integration
Experience with TDD environment (Test Driven development)
Unit testing with PHPUnit and/or a JS test framework eg Mocha, Jasmine/Jest, React Test
Worked in an agile environment (Epics, User Stories, Tasks).