Intermediate PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

Your Role:The Intermediate 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 and 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 and implement new features of the corporate and information service websitesWrite unit and integration tests for your codeCollaborate with UI and interaction designers to translate mock-ups into a functioning web application that is accessible and responsive with exceptional usabilityCollaborate with testers in development of test cases for JavaScript code and in some cases developing test cases to address accessibility and responsive usabilityCollaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinementAssist attain optimised and efficient, and best in class performance on our public websites.Assist improve SEO, ensuring high performance of the sites across multiple regions.Develop the Content Management System to create easily usable systems for distributed authorsAbout You:Required Experience:Understanding of HTTP request and response typesMinimum 2 years of JavaScript development either vanilla and/or using one or more UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, JQuery, etc)Understanding of HTTP requests and responsesMinimum 3 years of experience with HTML5 and CSS3Minimum 2 years of experience with PHPExperience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPressAwareness of design patterns and PHP inheritanceRelated web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSONExperience with git version controlExperience with any of the following is a nice to have:Experience of using and creating Gutenberg BlocksExperience development using and awareness of Node task runners/pre-processorsAwareness of coding standards and principles like dependency inversion (SOLID etc).Web Service API integrationExperience with TDD environment (Test Driven development)Unit testing with PHPUnit and/or a JS test framework eg Mocha, Jasmine/Jest, React TestWorked in an agile environment (Epics, User Stories, ..... full job details .....