Senior Software Developer

• Develop, enhance and maintain WordPress-based campaign and digital services.
• Manage WordPress upgrades, security patches and ongoing maintenance.
• Develop Front End functionality using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, alongside PHP/WordPress development.
• Develop and unit-test assigned user stories, including Node.js components and integrations where required.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, accessibility, security and testing.
• Maintain and support automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Break requirements into deliverable development activities and provide estimates.
• Work alongside Developers, BAs, DevOps and QA/Test Engineers within an Agile squad.
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies and provide clear delivery updates.
• Liaise with Akamai, cloud and infrastructure teams where required.
• Produce clear technical documentation and contribute to team knowledge bases.
• Support production incidents and participate in root-cause analysis.

• Strong WordPress development and support experience, including maintenance, upgrades, patching and security of public-facing websites.
• Strong PHP development skills, including working with WordPress themes and plugins.
• Strong HTML5 and CSS skills, with experience creating accessible, responsive web content.
• Good JavaScript experience, including vanilla JavaScript and ideally some Node.js.
• Experience building, maintaining and supporting campaign, publishing or content-led websites.
• Experience working with web content management systems and managing website content.
• Good understanding of web accessibility, ideally within UK Government/public-sector environments.
• Experience of unit testing/TDD and working to defined engineering and code-quality standards.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum multidisciplinary delivery team, including sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement and retrospectives.
• Ability to analyse requirements, break work into development tasks, estimate effort and deliver user stories through a sprint.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.

Desirable/beneficial experience

• Node.js development, particularly Back End services, APIs and integrations.
• GOV.UK Design System, Government accessibility standards and/or Government Digital Service environments.
• SQL/phpMyAdmin, including data management, manipulation and database administration.
• AWS, particularly basic serverless services such as Lambda.
• GitLab CI/CD, including automated build, test and deployment pipelines and code-quality gates.
• Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace and Alertmanager.
• Certificate management and experience supporting production services.
• Experience liaising with infrastructure/CDN/cloud teams, particularly Akamai or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Incident management, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Previous experience delivering within UK Government, public sector or comparable large-scale digital publishing environments.

LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world’s most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.