WordPress Developer Nottingham, England
Job description
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and driven Junior/Middleweight WordPress Developer looking for their next step in their career. This is a predominantly frontend development role where you will be responsible for building and updating high performing and engaging websites for a range of B2C and B2B clients across many industries including some household names. You’ll be expected to collaborate with fellow developers, designers and project managers in a fast paced digital agency environment.
About Hallam
Hallam is an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Nottingham but with a national team. We’re super proud to say we’ve recently been awarded Sunday Times top 100 places to work, an award we’ve worked incredibly hard to achieve. Our commitment to making your working environment the most rewarding, progressive and fun as it can be drives this. We truly believe everyone should have the opportunity to be happy at work. Work should exist to make home life better, not the other way round.
Roles and responsibilities
- Building high performing, accessible and responsive WordPress websites across a range of industries
- Working closely with the rest of the development team, design team and project managers to deliver great looking websites
- Adding new features and updating existing websites
- Providing a great first level support experience
- Exploring new ideas and innovation projects
- Keeping abreast of industry trends
Essentials
- Ideally 1-2 years of relevant industry experience building custom WordPress themes
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS (using a preprocessor) and JavaScript
- Experience customising themes using WordPress functions and ACF
- Understanding Git process and version control
- Strong team player and able to work closely with other developers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable working directly with clients
- Great troubleshooting skills
- Experience supporting a range of client website requests
- Ability to manage time and meet project deadlines
- A portfolio of work showcasing abilities
Desired
We don’t expect you to tick off all the below, but any you can bring to the table will be advantageous:
- Experience in third party JavaScript frameworks e.g. React and jQuery
- Experience with PHP
- Experience in eCommerce and WooCommerce
- Good eye for detail and ability to follow wireframes and designs
- Good understanding of performance and accessibility best practices
- Good working technical SEO knowledge
- Terminal and SSH familiarity
- Familiarity with build tools and compilers
- Technical / sysadmin skillsBuilding custom plugins
- Familiarity with using AI to aid coding i.e. Copilot, ChatGPT
- Experience using industry-standard software e.g. Figma, IDEs such as VS Code
- Experience with different types of WordPress themes, site builders and approaches such as Headless
What is it like working at Hallam?
Whilst every agency under the sun seems to offer a fruit bowl and office dogs these days (of which we do) We’re proud to offer plenty of other benefits:
- A progressive agency that is driven by its people and values, not just profit
- Flexi time based around core hours
- Unlimited remote work policy*
- Contribution matched pension
- Company bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- A day off for your birthday after 2 years of service
- Entitled to 3 month sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Extended compassionate leave including a specific miscarriage policy
- Eight weeks fully paid parental leave irrespective of gender
- Quarterly retros where your voice is genuinely heard and changes are made - this is your opportunity to make a difference to your place of work
- Generous and continuous training and learning programmes, both individually agreed by your manager and company-wide programmes
- Wellbeing and mental health programmes including counselling
- 2 days per month of personal development ‘Thrive Time’ - that you can spend on anything you want. Want to focus on innovation?
- Volunteer for a charity? Enrol on a CIM or MBA? You’ll have the time to do this.
- Volunteering scheme for local or national charities
- Financial planning and help
- Regular team social events and celebrations
- Apple MacBook, screen and technology you need to for your workplace set up
- Based on our 3 principles: Work from anywhere, Freedom to choose and Cultural Unity. We believe everyone has the right to work from wherever they want. This choice will always lay with the employee and not the employer. We hire the best and trust you to manage and deliver your own work. Whether you are 100% remote, hybrid or come into our Nottingham office every day, every Hallamer is an equally important part of our culture. For more information visit The Future of Work at Hallam
Salary
£25k - £33k dependent on experience.
To apply for this role, please use the Apply link above and include either a link to your website/portfolio or include one or two websites you’re most proud of.
