What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 5+ years with WordPress development
- Understanding of the WordPress and Gutenberg ecosystem and development best practices
- Experience creating custom Gutenberg blocks, custom RSS feeds, and WP-JSON API endpoints
- Expertise with modern performant HTML, CSS, and PHP
- Expertise with front-end JavaScript and React and experience of Node.js and server-side JavaScript
- Strong understanding of Git and VCS principles
- Knowledge of Agile methodology and project planning tools like JIRA
- Capability to manage full-stack projects from start to finish
- Understanding and knowledge of Core Web Vitals and their importance
- Excellent communication skills for remote work within a distributed team
- Understanding of Chrome DevTools to debug front end issues
- Strong problem-solving skills
Nice to have
- Experience with the WordPress VIP platform
- Enterprise experience building WordPress at scale – Edge and object Caching, Query optimization and WP Cron
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic and Kibana
- Experience with Typescript / Webpack
- Knowledge and use of WP-CLI and creating custom commands
- Integrating and using AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway)
- Knowledge and experience of developing for and publishing to AMP and Apple News
- Knowledge and use of CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions and TeamCity
- Experience writing bash or python scripts on an ad-hoc basis
- Interest and experience with Generative AI
- Willingness to travel to London, if viable, for team meet-ups at the office every other month
Day to day
- Deliver new features, functionality and maintenance for enterprise-level WordPress sites and related services
- Focus on product development and maintenance for iNews, but occasionally work on shared services that support other sister brands
- Create and advance new ideas within an established technology team
- Build and create software that is highly effective and purpose-built, without the typical burdens of traditional enterprise-level organisations
- Participate in discussions about technology choices based on business value, scalability, maintainability and project delivery performance
- Debug and troubleshoot website issues raised by our editorial and support staff