JUNIOR WORDPRESS DEVELOPER Leeds, England
Job description
OUR CLIENT
Our client is an award-winning communications agency with offices in Leeds, Manchester and London. Founded in 1999, they pride themselves on offering their clients an integrated creative response, using all the skills and talent they have in-house to come up with the most creative and effective ways to answer briefs and build brands. They believe in not specializing in any specific industry, as it helps them build their creative insight, knowledge, influence, and understanding.
THE ROLE
Our client is seeking a full-time Junior Developer to work at their head office in Leeds Dock. The successful candidate will be responsible for working alongside the Senior Developer to develop and deliver unique creative projects. They will also be required to write clean, lean, and well-documented code, help maintain existing client and internal websites, and liaise with account managers and their design team on a daily basis.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the Senior Developer to develop and deliver unique creative projects.
- Write clean, lean, well-documented code.
- Help to maintain existing client and internal websites.
- Liaise with account managers and design team on a daily basis.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- 1+ years of experience in WordPress, custom theme development, custom plugin and functionality development, hooks, actions, filters, and utilizing theme functions, and custom post types and taxonomies.
- Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, PHP, Sass or SCSS, JavaScript knowledge, and knowledge of popular JavaScript libraries/frameworks.
- Skills with responsive and mobile techniques and ability to debug front-end site issues using inspector tools.
DESIRABLES
- Experience working with APIs and integrations.
- Awareness of SEO and Accessibility Standards.
- Previous experience working with ACF blocks in Gutenberg and using git and git deploy methods.
BENEFITS
Our client is offering the right candidate a competitive salary based on experience, along with some great perks such as a personal trainer, incentive scheme, 25 days holiday, birthday off, ilkStock summer festival, and regular nights out.
LOCATION
The role will be based in the Leeds Dock head office.
