PHP/Wordpress WebDeveloper - London Area, United Kingdom - Global Relay

Description

Your Role:

The PHP/Wordress 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 Job:

• 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
• Provide SEO, ensuring high performance of the sites across multiple regions.

About You:

• Required Experience:
• Experience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPress
• Awareness of design patterns and PHP inheritance
• Minimum 2 years of JavaScript development either vanilla and/or using one or more UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, JQuery, etc)
• Minimum 3 years of experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• Related web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON
• 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
• Experience with test driven development
• Awareness of coding standards and principles like dependency inversion (SOLID etc).
• Worked in an Agile environment
• Web Service API integration
• Unit testing with Mocha, Jasmine/Jest, React Test

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there's no ceiling to what you can achieve. It's the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You'll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You'll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you'll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it's flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit .