[Hiring] Experienced WordPress/AWS Engineer @Affinity

Role Description

We are seeking a UK-based, experienced WordPress Developer with related AWS hosting experience who will bring energy and drive to join our agile development team. Self-motivated and with a can-do attitude, they will be looked upon to use creative problem-solving, coupled with significant experience of working with WordPress.

The successful person will be part of an agile development team, building and maintaining customer websites and digital services using WordPress, SQL, and PHP, utilising various services and open source tools. They will support existing solutions and help continually improve them through work packages.

They will be working on a number of high profile accounts, ensuring that everything is completed to the highest level including:

• Design patterns
• Web security
• Technical documentation
• Application performance

Custom plugin and theme development experience would be desirable, together with a strong working knowledge of Git. They will be decisive and a good communicator, and will be looked upon to lead by example and help support the less experienced members of the team.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Key role on WordPress software support, development and AWS hosting projects as well as research and testing as required.
• Attend project meetings as requested by the Delivery Manager or Senior Developer.
• Record time spent on each project on a day by day basis to the required level of detail.
• Remain current regarding changes in relevant technology and systems to ensure that technical knowledge is up to date.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating WordPress, tuning and improving WordPress implementations.
• Enjoy fast-paced, challenging and real-time problem solving.

Requirements

• HTML5, CSS3, Sass (Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, etc.)
• PHP and SQL
• Strong ES6+ Javascript skills, including Node JS and React
• Custom WordPress theme and plugin development
• Responsive/mobile web development
• RESTful APIs
• Version control, particularly Git
• Docker and containerisation
• AWS core services, such as EC2, ECS/EKS, EFS, database, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, IAM, etc.
• Infrastructure-as-Code - ideally Terraform and CloudFormation
• Strong communication skills, including client facing
• Ability to work as a team and autonomously
• Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
• Commercially aware

Useful Experience for the Role

• Enterprise-level experience with either government or the private sector
• Continuous integration and deployment, incl. GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, etc.
• Non-AWS cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Benefits

• We are a flat organisation and team members are rewarded for being great at what they do, not the seniority they have reached in the company.
• 1 day of extra holiday per year of employment, up to a maximum of 8 extra days.
• We accommodate flexible working when needed.
• Continuing professional development opportunities ranging from on-the-job training to formal qualifications and certifications.
• Access to a professional and life coach where appropriate.
• We are an Investors In People and Living Wage accredited employer.